Featuring advanced software and an industry-leading hardware platform, the HP A-MSR 900 Series Multi-Service routers with IEEE 802.11b/g provide enhanced performance, security, and reliability for enterprise networks. The perfect appliance for delivering converged network solutions, including data, voice and video, IPv6 support, and robust quality of service (QoS), help ensure that these routers can not only handle the enterprise networking applications of today, but future connectivity and capacity demands as well. Additionally, a standards-based design provides complete interoperability in multivendor environments.

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
• Excellent forwarding performance: provides forwarding performance up to 100 Kpps; meets today’s and future bandwidth-intensive application demands for enterprise businesses

Resiliency and high availability
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP): allows a group of routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments

Layer 2 switching
• Spanning Tree: fully supports standard IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol for faster convergence, and IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

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