HP A-MSR50 Series

Overview:

The HP A-MSR50 Series Multi-Service Routers are designed for large branches and regional offices to connect to corporate network over WAN. These routers deliver high-performance, security and integrated services on a single platform. They feature optional embedded hardware-based encryption and voice processing. The routers are based on a 1.7 GHz CPU and deliver superior performance forwarding up to 1280 Kpps. These routers are highly flexible with a wide choice of connectivity and routing choices. With a full-featured, resilient routing platform, including IPv6 and MPLS support, as well as comprehensive integrated security services, these routers enhance network functionality and simplify management and reduce complexity. High-performance rack-mount platforms, the 3U-high A-MSR50-40 and 4U-high A-MSR50-60 router chassis offer flexible, feature-rich open application architecture (OAA)-ready resilient WAN routing to connect branches to the corporate network.

• High performance modular OAA router
• Convergence of routing, switching, voice, security
• Embedded encryption, firewall, security feature
• High reliability, dual power supply, hot-swapping
• Unified management platform

HP A-MSR50 Series Models:

	A-MSR50-40 Router Chassis (JD433A), A-MSR50-40 DC Router Chassis (JF285A)
	A-MSR50-60 Router Chassis (JF231A), A-MSR50-60 DC Router Chassis (JF640A)

Features and Benefits:

Quality of Service (QoS)

• Traffic policing — supports Committed Access Rate (CAR) and line rate
• Congestion management — supports FIFO, PQ, CQ, WFQ, CBQ, and RTPQ
• Congestion avoidance — weighted Random Early Detection (WRED)/RED
• Other QoS technologies — support traffic shaping, FR QoS, MPLS QoS, and MP QoS/LFI

Management

• Management interface control — provides management access through modem port and terminal interface; provides access through terminal interface, telnet, or SSH
• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure — reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations
• Management security — multiple privilege levels, with password protection, restrict access to critical configuration commands; ACLs provide telnet and SNMP access; local and remote syslog capability allow logging of all access
• SNMPv1, v2, and v3 — provide complete support of SNMP; SNMPv3 supports increased security using encryption; provide full support of industry-standard MIBs plus private MIB extensions
• Remote monitoring (RMON) — uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions; supports events, alarm, history, and statistics group plus a private alarm extension group
• FTP, TFTP, and SFTP support — File Transfer Protocol allows bi-directional transfers over a TCP/IP network and is used for configuration updates; Trivial FTP is a simpler method using UDP
• Debug and sampler utility — supports ping and traceroute for both IPv4 and IPv6
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) — synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; keeps consistent timekeeping among all clock-dependent devices within the network so that the devices can provide diverse applications based on the consistent time
• Info center — provides a central information center for system and network information; aggregates all logs, traps, and debugging information generated by the system and maintains them in order of severity; outputs the network information to multiple channels based on user-defined rules
• Network Quality Analyzer (NQA) — analyzes network performance and service quality by sending test packets, and provides network performance and service quality parameters such as jitter, TCP, or FTP connection delays; allows network manager to determine overall network performance and diagnose and locate network congestion points or failures

Connectivity

• High-density port connectivity — provides up to 10 interface module slots and up to 90 Fast Ethernet ports
• Multiple WAN interfaces — provides a traditional link with Serial, E1/T1, ADSL, G.SHDSL, and ISDN/AM backup; provides high-density Ethernet access with WAN Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet, LAN 4-/9-/16-/24-port Fast Ethernet, and PoE; provides mobility access with 11g/n Wi-Fi and 3G; please note all SIC/DSIC module can only be configured if HP A-MSR50 Main Processing Unit (JD653A) is chosen; HP A-MSR50 G2 Main Processing Unit (JD429B) cannot configure SIC/DSIC.
• 3G access support — allows use of SIC 3G module for high reliability; supports popular USB 3G modem
• Ideal IP telephony solutions — support FXO, FXS, T1, E1, and BRI in various densities; provide Web browser-based administration, Smart Dial Routing, FXS and FXO 1:1 binding for all ports, Power to Escape to PSTN when IP failures occur, and Enhanced Local MSR Survivability
• Flexible port selection — provides combination of fiber and copper interface modules, 100/1000BASE-X auto-speed selection, and 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-speed detection plus auto duplex and MDI/MDI-X
• Packet storm protection — protects against broadcast, multicast, or unicast storms with user-defined thresholds
• Loopback — supports internal loopback testing for maintenance purposes and an increase in availability; loopback detection protects against incorrect cabling or network configurations and can be enabled on a per-port or per-VLAN basis for added flexibility

Performance

• Excellent forwarding performance — provides forwarding performance up to 800 Kpps/1280 Kpps (two kinds of engines); meets today's and future bandwidth-intensive application demands for enterprise businesses
• Powerful encryption capacity — includes embedded hardware encryption accelerator to improve encryption performance
• Flexible chassis selection — offers a choice of four or six FIC slot routers, meeting different requirements on enterprise branches

Resiliency and high availability

• Hot swappable — hot-swappable modules allow modules to be replaced without any impact on traffic
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) — allows a group of routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments
• Dual internal power supply — provides high reliability

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
• IGMP and MLD snooping — effectively control and manage the flooding of multicast packets in a Layer 2 network
• Port mirroring — duplicates port traffic (ingress and egress) to a local or remote monitoring port
• VLANs — support up to 4094 ports or IEEE 802.1Q-based VLANs

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
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP) helper — redirects UDP broadcasts to specific IP subnets to prevent server spoofing
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) — simplifies the management of large IP networks and supports client and server; DHCP Relay enables DHCP operation across subnets

Layer 3 routing

• Static IPv4 routing — provides simple, manually configured IPv4 routing
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) — uses a distance vector algorithm with UDP packets for route determination; supports RIPv1 and RIPv2 routing; includes loop protection
• OSPF — Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) using link-state protocol for faster convergence; supports ECMP, NSSA, and MD5 authentication for increased security and graceful restart for faster failure recovery
• Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) — Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) with path vector protocol uses TCP for enhanced reliability for the route discovery process, reduces bandwidth consumption by advertising only incremental updates, and supports extensive policies for increased flexibility, as well as scales to very large networks
• Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS) — Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) using path-vector protocol, which is defined by the ISO organization for IS-IS routing and extended by IETF RFC 1195 to operate in both TCP/IP and the OSI reference model (Integrated IS-IS)
• Static IPv6 routing — provides simple, manually configured IPv6 routing
• Dual stack — maintains separate stacks for IPv4 and IPv6 to ease transition from an IPv4-only network to an IPv6-only network design
• Routing Information Protocol next generation (RIPng) — extends RIPv2 to support IPv6 addressing
• OSPFv3 — extends OSPFv2 to support IPv6 addressing
• BGP+ — extends BGP-4 to support Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP), including support for IPv6 addressing
• IS-IS for IPv6 — extends IS-IS to support IPv6 addressing
• IPv6 tunneling — is an important element for the transition from IPv4 to IPv6; allows IPv6 packets to traverse IPv4-only networks by encapsulating the IPv6 packet into a standard IPv4 packet; supports manually configured, 6to4, and Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) tunnels
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) — uses BGP to advertise routes across Label Switching Paths (LSPs), but uses simple labels to forward packets from any Layer 2 or Layer 3 protocol, thus reducing complexity and increasing performance; supports graceful restart for reduced failure impact; supports LSP tunneling and multilevel stacks
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 3 VPN — allows Layer 3 VPNs across a provider network; uses MP-BGP to establish private routes for increased security; supports RFC 2547bis multiple autonomous system VPNs for added flexibility
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 2 VPN — establishes simple Layer 2 point-to-point VPNs across a provider network using only MPLS LDPs; requires no routing and therefore decreases complexity, increases performance, and allows VPNs of non-routable protocols; uses no routing information for increased security; supports Circuit Cross Connect (CCC), Static Virtual Circuits (SVCs), Martini draft, and Kompella-draft technologies
• Policy routing — allows custom filters for increased performance and security; supports ACLs, IP prefix, AS paths, community lists, and aggregate policies

• Access control list (ACL) — supports powerful ACLs for both IPv4 and IPv6; ACLs are used for filtering traffic to prevent illegal users from accessing the network, or for controlling network traffic to save resources; rules can either deny or permit traffic to be forwarded; rules can be based on a Layer 2 header or a Layer 3 protocol header; rules can be set to operate on specific dates or times
• MAC authentication — provides simple authentication based on a user's MAC address; supports local or RADIUS-based authentication
• TACACS+ — is an authentication tool using TCP with encryption of the full authentication request that provides added security
• Network login — standard IEEE 802.1x allows authentication of multiple users per port
• RADIUS — eases security access administration by using a password authentication server
• Network address translation (NAT) — supports one-to-one NAT, many-to-many NAT, and NAT control, enabling NAPT to support multiple connections; supports backlist in NAT/NAPT, a limit on the number of connections, session log, and multi-instance
• Secure Shell (SSHv2) — uses external servers to securely login into a remote device or securely login into MSR from a remote location; with authentication and encryption, it protects against IP spoofing and plain text password interception; increases the security of SFTP transfers
• Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (URPF) — allows normal packets to be forwarded correctly, but discards the attaching packet due to lack of reverse path route or incorrect inbound interface; prevents source spoofing and distributed attacks

Convergence

• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) — is used by IP hosts to establish and maintain multicast groups; supports v1, v2, and v3; utilizes Any-Source Multicast (ASM) or Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) to manage IPv4 multicast networks
• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) — is used for IPv4 and IPv6 multicast applications; supports PIM dense mode (PIM-DM), sparse mode (PIM-SM), and source-specific mode (PIM-SSM)
• Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) — is used for inter-domain multicast applications, allowing multiple PIM-SM domains to interoperate
• Multicast Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP) — allows multicast traffic to be forwarded across BGP networks, separate from unicast traffic

Integration

• Open application architecture (OAA) — provides high-performance application-specific modules fully integrated with the switching architecture; uses the chassis high-speed backplane to access network-related data; increases performance, reduces costs, and simplifies network management
• Embedded NetStream — local and global server load balancing module improves traffic distribution using powerful scheduling algorithms, including Layer 4 to 7 services; monitors the health status of servers and firewalls
• Embedded VPN firewall — provides enhanced stateful packet inspection and filtering; provides advanced VPN services with Triple DES (3DES) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption at high performance and low latency, Web content filtering, and application prioritization and enhancement

Additional information

• OPEX savings — a common operating system simplifies and streamlines deployment, management, and training, thereby cutting costs, as well as reducing the chance for human error associated with having to manage multiple operating systems across different platforms and network layers
• High reliability — provides a state-of-the-art unified code base
• Faster time to market — engineering efficiencies allow new and custom features to be brought rapidly to the market with better initial and ongoing stability
• Green initiative support — provides support for RoHS and WEEE regulations

Product architecture

• Ideal multiservice platform — provides data, voice SIP and H.323, LAN switching, wireless, 3G, firewall, and IPSec/SSL VPN all in one box
• Embedded service modules for security and voice — embedded Voice Co-Processing Modules (VCPMs) and Voice Processing Modules (VPMs) accommodate digital signal processor (DSP) modules for packet voice processing; embedded hardware encryption modules, Standard Network Data Encryption (SNDE) cards, and Advanced Network Data Encryption (ANDE) cards do not occupy I/O slots
• Open application architecture — with open application architecture, MSR series routers provides unmatched application and services flexibility, and have the potential to deliver the functionality of multiple devices, creating capital and operational expense savings and lasting investment protection
• USB interface — uses USB memory disk to download and upload configuration files; supports external USB 3G modem for 3G WAN uplink
• Flexible modular design — multiple types of modules meet different requirements; for example, Smart Interface Cards (SICs) are small and cost-effective modules, Multi-functional Interface Modules (MIMs) are more high-density and affordable modules, Flexible Interface Cards (FICs) provide high reliability and are hot-swappable, and double-width modules provide high density

Warranty and support

• 1-year warranty — with advance replacement and 10-calendar-day delivery (available in most countries)
• Electronic and telephone support — limited electronic and telephone support is available from HP; refer to www.hp.com/networking/warranty for details on the support provided and the period during which support is available
• Software releases — refer to www.hp.com/networking/warranty for details on the software releases provided and the period during which software releases are available for your product(s)

Specifications:

	A-MSR50-40 (JD433A)	A-MSR50-40 DC (JF285A)
Port
	4 FIC module slots	4 FIC module slots
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	16.69(d) x 17.17(w) x 5.16(h) in. (42.4 x 43.6 x 13.1 cm) (3U height)	16.69(d) x 17.17(w) x 5.16(h) in. (42.4 x 43.6 x 13.1 cm) (3U height)
Weight	39.68 lb. (18 kg)	39.68 lb. (18 kg)
Memory and processor
Processor 1	RISC @ 1700 MHz, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash	RISC @ 1700 MHz, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash
Processor 2	RISC @ 833 MHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash	RISC @ 833 MHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash
Mounting
	Mounts in an EIA standard 19-in. rack	Mounts in an EIA standard 19-in. rack
Performance
Throughput	Up to 1280 Kpps (64-byte packets)	Up to 1280 Kpps (64-byte packets)
Routing/Switching capacity	3 Gbps	3 Gbps
Routing table size	10000 entries	10000 entries
Environment
Operating temperature	32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)	32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)
Operating relative humidity	5% to 90%, noncondensing	5% to 90%, noncondensing
Non-Operating temperature	-40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C)	-40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C)
Non-Operating relative humidity	5% to 90%, noncondensing	5% to 90%, noncondensing
Electrical characteristics
Maximum heat dissipation	1194 BTU/hr (1259.67 kJ/hr)	1194 BTU/hr (1259.67 kJ/hr)
Voltage	100-120/200-240 VAC	100-120/200-240 VAC
DC Voltage		–48 VDC to –60 VDC
Maximum power rating	350 W	350 W
PoE power	500 W	500 W
Frequency	50/60 Hz
Notes	Maximum power rating and maximum heat dissipation are the worst-case theoretical maximum numbers provided for planning the infrastructure with fully loaded PoE (if equipped), 100% traffic, all ports plugged in, and all modules populated. PoE power is the power supplied by the internal power supply. It is dependent on the type and quantity of power supplies and may be supplemented with the use of an external power supply (EPS).	Maximum power rating and maximum heat dissipation are the worst-case theoretical maximum numbers provided for planning the infrastructure with fully loaded PoE (if equipped), 100% traffic, all ports plugged in, and all modules populated. PoE power is the power supplied by the internal power supply. It is dependent on the type and quantity of power supplies and may be supplemented with the use of an external power supply (EPS).
Safety
	UL 60950-1AS/NZS 60950EN 60825-1 Safety of Laser Products-Part 1EN 60825-2 Safety of Laser Products-Part 2IEC 60950-1EN 60950-1CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1-03FDA 21 CFR Subchapter J
	A-MSR50-60 (JF231A)	A-MSR50-60 DC (JF640A)
Port
	6 FIC module slots	6 FIC module slots
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	16.69(d) x 17.17(w) x 6.89(h) in. (42.4 x 43.6 x 17.5 cm) (4U height)	16.69(d) x 17.17(w) x 6.89(h) in. (42.4 x 43.6 x 17.5 cm) (4U height)
Weight	44.09 lb. (20 kg)	44.09 lb. (20 kg)
Memory and processor
Processor 1	RISC @ 1700 MHz, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash	RISC @ 1700 MHz, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash
Processor 2	RISC @ 833 MHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash	RISC @ 833 MHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash
Mounting
	Mounts in an EIA standard 19-in. rack	Mounts in an EIA standard 19-in. rack
Performance
Throughput	Up to 1280 Kpps (64-byte packets)	Up to 1280 Kpps (64-byte packets)
Routing/Switching capacity	3 Gbps	3 Gbps
Routing table size	10000 entries	10000 entries
Environment
Operating temperature	32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)	32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)
Operating relative humidity	5% to 90%, noncondensing	5% to 90%, noncondensing
Non-Operating temperature	-40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C)	-40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C)
Non-Operating relative humidity	5% to 90%, noncondensing	5% to 90%, noncondensing
Electrical characteristics
Maximum heat dissipation	1194 BTU/hr (1259.67 kJ/hr)	1194 BTU/hr (1259.67 kJ/hr)
Voltage	100-120/200-240 VAC	100-120/200-240 VAC
DC Voltage		–48 VDC to –60 VDC
Maximum power rating	350 W	350 W
PoE power	500 W	500 W
Frequency	50/60 Hz
Notes	Maximum power rating and maximum heat dissipation are the worst-case theoretical maximum numbers provided for planning the infrastructure with fully loaded PoE (if equipped), 100% traffic, all ports plugged in, and all modules populated. PoE power is the power supplied by the internal power supply. It is dependent on the type and quantity of power supplies and may be supplemented with the use of an external power supply (EPS).	Maximum power rating and maximum heat dissipation are the worst-case theoretical maximum numbers provided for planning the infrastructure with fully loaded PoE (if equipped), 100% traffic, all ports plugged in, and all modules populated. PoE power is the power supplied by the internal power supply. It is dependent on the type and quantity of power supplies and may be supplemented with the use of an external power supply (EPS).
Safety
	UL 60950-1AS/NZS 60950EN 60825-1 Safety of Laser Products-Part 1EN 60825-2 Safety of Laser Products-Part 2IEC 60950-1EN 60950-1CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1-03FDA 21 CFR Subchapter J

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Documentation:

HP A-MSR50 Series Datasheet (.PDF)