Cisco Cisco ME 3400EG-2CS-A Switch Information Guide
Q & A
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Cisco ME 3400E Series Ethernet Access Switches
Product Overview
Q. What are the Cisco
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ME 3400E Series Ethernet Access Switches?
A. The Cisco ME 3400E Series is an exciting addition to the Cisco ME 3400 Series, one of the most successful
Carrier Ethernet access switches in the world giving service providers greater availability, flexibility,
manageability, and security.
Q. How does the market positioning of the Cisco ME 3400E Series differ from that of the Cisco ME 3400 Series?
A. The Cisco ME 3400 Series will continue to be the standard access product for business and residential
services. The Cisco ME 3400E Series is targeted for business customers that demand more carrier-grade
features and differentiated services.
Q. What are the benefits of the high-availability features in the Cisco ME 3400E Series?
A. The Cisco ME 3400E Series provides carrier-grade features such as redundant, integrated, field-replaceable
power and fan modules that increase the uptime of business-critical services. In addition, the Cisco ME
3400E Series provides alarm contacts to detect changes in environmental conditions, dying gasp notifications
when there is a loss of power, and loopback capabilities to quickly troubleshoot issues in the network.
Q. What other high-availability features does the Cisco ME 3400E Series offer?
A. In addition to the high-availability features mentioned previously, the Cisco ME 3400E Series also offers
Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP), Flexlink, Link-State Tracking, and EtherChannel to increase the overall
uptime of the network. By delivering all these solutions in a single platform, the Cisco ME 3400E Series helps
your service provider organization to offer differentiated services with high profit margins.
Q. What other management and diagnostic tools are available on the Cisco ME 3400E Series to increase service
availability?
A. The Cisco ME 3400E Series provides an Ethernet management console for out-of-band provisioning and
monitoring capabilities. To help you take proactive actions before service-impacting events occur, the Cisco
ME 3400E Series also includes Generic On-Line Diagnostics (GOLD) and Onboard Failure Logging (OBFL) to
help you to troubleshoot and diagnose potential issues.
Q. How can I benefit from the service flexibility features in the Cisco ME 3400E Series?
A. The Cisco ME 3400E Series provides 1:1 VLAN Translation, which enables you to accept any customer VLAN
ID without worrying about VLAN ID overlap. To increase VLAN manageability and scalability, Cisco ME 3400E
Series offers Selective QinQ to help you to offer more service.
Q. What quality-of-service (QoS) features does the Cisco ME 3400E Series provide to enhance service
flexibility?
A. The Cisco ME 3400E Series provides two-rate three-color (2R3C) policer with byte-level statistics and inner-
to-outer class of service (CoS) propagation to enable you to offer differentiated services and generate more
revenue. In addition, the Cisco ME 3400E Series also offers granular egress shaper range to help you offer
your customers stringent service-level agreements (SLAs) with high profit margins and to use the network
bandwidth more efficiently.