- Dual fabric slots and ten line card slots
- Power over Ethernet providing standards-based IEEE 802.3at Class 4 and IEEE 802.3af Class 3
- Ethernet Protected Switched Rings (EPSR)
- Upstream Forwarding Only (UFO) mode
- HVLAN (port and VLAN-based, VLAN double tagging (Q-in-Q))
- IGMP snooping
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Egress port rate limiting
- RADIUS/TACACS+ authentication
- 802.1x port authentication
- Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) filtering
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
The SwitchBlade x3112 is designed for carrier network service reliability and redundancy in FTTx applications using 1 G and 10 G optical service blades, data center end of row and enterprise edge services where Power over Ethernet (PoE) is needed.