The HP 5500 HI Switch Series delivers outstanding resiliency, security, and multiservice support at the edge layer of large campus and branch networks. The HP 5500 HI has a robust feature set supporting 1440W PoE+, fixed and modular 10GbE, 9 chassis IRF stacking, Static & RIP Routing, OSPF, MPLS, ACLs, IPv6 and Energy Efficient Ethernet. The HP 5500 HI Switch Series offers advanced technologies including OAM, CFD, Multi-level QoS, MPLS, and VPLS, and can be managed with the HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) for a single view of your entire network and includes Lifetime Warranty 2.0.

• The HP 5500 HI Switch Series delivers outstanding resiliency, security, and multiservice support capabilities features at the edge layer of data center and large campus networks. Advanced technologies include OAM, CFD, RRPP, BFD, Multi-level QoS, MPLS, and VPLS.

Quality of Service (QoS)
• The 5500 HI Switch Series provides higher levels of security with hardware-based, wire-speed access control lists (ACLs).

Beheer
• The HP 5500 HI Switch Series supports advanced classifier-based QoS which classifies traffic using multiple match criteria based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information; applies QoS policies such as setting priority level and rate limit to selected traffic on a port, VLAN, or whole switch.

Interfaces
• The HP 5500 HI Switch Series supports flexible authentication methods including 802.1X, MAC, and Web Authentication for greater security and policy-driven application authentication.