The HP MSR20-1x Series is a component of the HP FlexBranch solution, which is part of the HP FlexNetwork architecture. MSR20-1X routers are full-featured, economical routers designed for converged wired and wireless WAN and LAN environments at small remote branch offices and small to medium-sized businesses. HP MSR20-1x series routers deliver high-performance integrated routing, switching, security, wireless, and voice services while reducing complexity, simplifying management, and increasing control. These routers enable an agile and flexible network infrastructure that can quickly adapt to changing business requirements while delivering integrated services on a single, easy-to-manage platform.
Quality of Service (QoS)
• Traffic policing: supports Committed Access Rate (CAR) and line rate
Management
• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure: reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations
Connectivity
• Packet storm protection: protects against broadcast, multicast, or unicast storms with user-defined thresholds
Performance
• Powerful encryption capacity: includes embedded hardware encryption accelerator to improve encryption performance
Resiliency and high availability
• Backup Center: acts as a part of the management and backup function to provide backup for device interfaces; delivers reliability by switching traffic over to a backup interface when the primary one fails
Layer 2 switching
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP): fully supports standard IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) for faster convergence, and IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
Layer 3 services
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP): determines the MAC address of another IP host in the same subnet; supports static ARPs; gratuitous ARP allows detection of duplicate IP addresses; proxy ARP allows normal ARP operation between subnets or when subnets are separated by a Layer 2 network