| Features |
Alpine 3808 |
Alpine 3804 |
| Max Auto-Negotiating
10/100BASE-TX Ports |
256 |
128 |
| Max Auto-Negotiating
10/100/1000BASE-T Ports |
128
|
64 |
| Max Gigabit Ethernet
Ports (GBIC or Mini-GBIC) |
128 |
64 |
| Max 10 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
(XENPAK) |
0 |
0 |
| Form Factor/Footprint |
Chassis/12RU |
Chassis/6RU |
| Stacking Support |
- |
- |
| Total Switching Capacity |
64 Gbps |
32 Gbps |
| Programmable ASICs |
No |
No |
| Redundant Power |
Yes |
Yes |
| Power over Ethernet (802.3af) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wire-Speed Layer 2/Layer 3
Switching |
Yes |
Yes |
| Routing |
BGP4, DVMRP, OSPF, RIP v1/v2, PIM |
BGP4, DVMRP, OSPF, RIP v1/v2, PIM |
| Policy-Based Routing |
Yes |
Yes |
| Policy-Based Quality of Service
(QoS) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Network Login |
Yes |
Yes |
| Access Control Lists |
Yes |
Yes |
| Layer 3 Virtual Switching |
No |
No |
| vMANs (802.1ad) |
Yes |
Yes |
| MAC-in-MAC (802.1ah) |
No |
No |
| CLEAR-Flow |
No |
No |
| sFlow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| EAPS |
Yes |
Yes |
| Advanced Spanning Tree (802.1w,
802.1s, PVST+) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Link Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
| Integrated Server Load
Balancing |
Yes
|
Yes |
| 802.11 WLAN (802.11a/b/g) |
Yes |
Yes |
| AES, WPA/TKIP, WEP |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Switch Management
Capabilities |
SNMP, Web, CLI, 4 RMON groups
|
SNMP, Web, CLI, 4 RMON groups
|
