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Appendix

ProCurve Networking Adaptive EDGE Architecture™

Networks are now being asked to carry many different types of data with differing delivery

requirements. Traffic volumes are rising quickly. Security needs are more stringent. And the

typical user is demanding a higher level of mobility than ever before. To meet these critical

needs ProCurve Networking has developed the ProCurve Networking Adaptive EDGE

Architecture. The two major tenets of the Adaptive EDGE Architecture are:

• Intelligent control to the edge, and

• Command from the center

It is the network edge where users and applications connect, where network traffic enters and

exits the network, and where the network must determine how that traffic should be handled.

The edge is where security policies must be enforced, where the user connects after being

authenticated at a central command resource. Without control to the edge, decisions about

security and traffic must be deferred to the network core, impacting core performance and

scalability while at the same time requiring more bandwidth in all parts of the network, thus

driving up cost and complexity. In addition, this opens the network to security attacks between

where access is physically attained and where authorization is granted. The intelligent control to

the edge must be done in the switches closest to the users. Since these switches constitute the

highest number of network ports in a network, they must also be cost effective.

The Adaptive EDGE Architecture is not just a future vision. Many elements of the architecture

are already available in ProCurve’s current products, including the ProCurve Switch 5300 Series.

With its ProCurve developed ASICs, the 5300 series delivers a broad range of Layer 2, 3 and 4

features for control to the edge. The 5300 series is cost effective at the edge and can be

coupled with the 9300 series core switches or used to create a distributed core in a network

composed entirely of 5300 series switches in a meshed – at layer 2 or layer 3 – highly available

configuration or grid.

Over time more features will be added to the ProCurve Switch 5300 Series to round out the

intelligent control to the edge, filling in the command from the center, providing a dynamic

network environment needed by users in a rapidly evolving information environment.

For more information on the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture, see the ProCurve website at

http://www.procurve.com

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