EX Series: Products Specifications

The EX Series is the industry’s only bandwidth management appliance with identity-based application visibility, helping organizations optimize and secure network traffic through the management of bandwidth by applications and users.

EX 1100
EX 1100
EX 2110
EX 2110
EX 2100
EX 2100
EX 2200
EX 2200
EX 1100 EX 2110 EX 2100 / 2200
Processor Single Quad Core Single Quad Core Dual
Ethernet Interface
  Gigabit Copper
  Gigabit Fiber
    —SFP Mini GBIC
4
0
6
2
8 (EX 2100), 12 (EX 2200)
2 (EX 2100), 0 (EX 2200)
Management Interface Yes (separate port) Yes (separate port) Yes
Console Port Yes Yes Yes
Hard Disks Single Single Dual
Cooling Fan Single, Fixed Single, Fixed Hot Swap Smart Fan
Maximum Power Consumption 131 W 158 W 265 W
Power Supply Single 250 W Single 250 W Dual 460 W RPS
100 to 240 VAC, Frequency 50 - 60 Hz, Redundant
Power Off Bypass Yes Yes Yes
Dimensions 1.75 in (H)
17.3 in (W)
16.7 in (D) 		1.75 in (H)
17.3 in (W)
16.7 in (D) 		3.5 in (H)
17 in (W)
24 in (D)
Rack Units (Mountable) 1U 1U 2U
Unit Weight 16 lbs 16 lbs 34 lbs
Operating Ranges Temperature and Humidity 0 degrees - 40 degrees C 5% - 95%
Regulatory Certification FCC Class A, UL, CE, TUV, CB, VCCI
Standard Warranty 90-day Hardware & Software

EX Series Features

Application Bandwidth Management

  • QoS policy actions
    • Automatic load aware shaping
    • Rate shape, limit, drop
    • Connection limit
    • Priority marking
    • Apply sub-policy
  • QoS policy rules
    • 100+ predefined application classes
    • Custom classes based on L2-L7 attributes
    • Custom classes based on Identity*
    • aFleX powered custom classification engine
    • Heuristics based classification
  • Predefined application class categories
    • Peer-to-Peer (Ares, BitTorrent, Cspace, Dijjer, DirectConnect, eDonkey-eMule, FreeCast, Gnutella, Limewire, KaZaA, Krawler, PPLive, PPStream, Share, SoulSeek, TVAnts, WinMX, Xunlei)
    • Multimedia (Abacast, Flash Video, iTunes, Motion, Quicktime, RTP, RTSP, Shoutcast, Windows Media)
    • Voice-over-IP (H323, Skype, Skinny)
    • Instant Messaging (AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk, IRC, QQ)
    • Access (SSH, rlogin, telnet, Remote Desktop, VNC)
    • File Transfer (FTP, RCP, NFS, CIFS, SMB, NetBIOS, Netware)
    • Email (MS Exchange, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, BIFF)
    • Database (mySQL, Oracle)
    • Directory (LDAP, ident)
    • Web (HTTP, HTTPS)
    • Miscellaneous (AURP, Ariel, BGP, Day Time, DHCP, DNS, Echo, Gopher, Kerberos, Lotus, IPP, NNTP, NTP, Printer, RPC, RPC2Portmap, Router, Shell, SNMP, Sun RPC, Syslog, Time, UUCP )

Link Management

  • Inbound and outbound WAN link balance
  • Link preference by QoS class
  • Bind different classes to different link sets
  • Expose internal services using Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) or server load balancing (SLB)
  • Use built in DNS or 3rd party DNS
  • Packet steering or link load balance by domain name or identity*
  • Link load balancing algorithms
    • Round Robin
    • Weighted Round Robin
    • Least Connection
    • Weighted Least Connection
    • Bandwidth Usage
    • Round Trip Time
    • Bandwidth Price

Application and Identity Visibility

  • Granular reporting
    • Top N internal talkers
    • Top N external talkers
    • Top N applications
    • Top N URLs
    • Packet size distribution
    • Interactive drill down
    • Periodic graphical reports
    • Threshold alerts
    • Enhanced with Identity, Client Host Name, and Client Host MAC address*
    • PDF, HTML or XML format
    • By application, subnet, VLAN or interface
  • Application logging
    • File Transfer - FTP, NFS, CIFS
    • Mail - SMTP, POP3
    • Instant Messaging - Yahoo, AOL, MSN, QQ
    • Web - HTTP Post
  • Map application ID to company assigned ID*
  • Augmented with ID, host name, and MAC*

IPS Anomaly Protection

  • 28 network anomaly types
    • DDoS Attacks
    • ICMP Based Attacks
    • IP Based Attacks
    • TCP/UDP Based Attacks

Layer 2 and Layer 3 Support

  • L3 routing protocols
    • RIP2
    • OSPF
    • Static Route
  • L2 transparent mode
    • Tagged and untagged Vlans

Management

  • Industry standard Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • Intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • Localized for Chinese, Japanese and Korean
  • SSH, Telnet, RS-232 Serial Console

High Availability

  • Active/Standby

Redundancy (EX 2100/2200)

  • Hot swappable smart fans
  • Redundant power supply
  • Removable hard drives with RAID 1 support


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