Abstract

The S1700 series enterprise switches are next-generation energy- saving Ethernet access switches developed by Huawei. The S1700 switches use high-performance hardware and offers various features to help users build secure, reliable and high-performance networks. The S1700 switches are easy to install and maintain which make them ideal for small- and medium-size enterprises, Internet cafes, hotels and schools.

The S1700 series switches consists of unmanaged models, Web- managed models and Web/SNMP-managed models.

Tolly engineers evaluated Huawei’s S1700 series switches in multiple areas including the performance (line-rate forwarding capability),
Layer 3 hardware-based forwarding, MAC table capacity, VLAN
capacity, power saving, Ethernet features, Layer 2 multicast (IGMP snooping), IPv6 support, device and user management, security etc.