The PLANET Layer 3 Switches provide wire-speed IP routing capability and flexible managed tools that bring high-end security and traffic control to the edge of the network. The PLANET Managed Multi-Layer Switches Solution is the industry-leading, cost -effective, and high reliability with the ability to extend as the fast growing of network demands.

PLANET Layer 3 Switches offers comprehensive Access Control List (ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. It protects mechanisms comprised of port-based 802.1x user and device authentication. The port-security is effective to limit the numbers of clients pass through. The administrators can now construct highly secured corporate networks with time and effort considerably less then before.

With its built-in web-based management, the solution offers an easy-to-use, platform- independent management and configuration facility. The product family supports standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and can be managed via any standard-based management software. For text-based management, the layer 3 switches can also be accessed via Telnet and the console port. For secure remote management, the product family supports SSL and SSH connection which encrypt the packet content at each session

The PLANET Layer 3 Switches provide the cutting-edge features as below:
1. IP Routing: RIP, OSPF, IRDP and VRRP
2. Multicast Routing: PIM-DM/SM, DVMRP, IGMP v3
3. Policy based DiffServ
4. Per-Port and VLAN routing
5. SNMP v1, v2c, and v3
6. Q-in-Q and MSTP
7. L2/L3/L4 ACL