HPE MSR50 Series routers are a component of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise FlexBranch solution, which is part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise FlexNetwork architecture.

These routers are designed for large branch offices, regional offices, and enterprise deployments that require high-performance converged routing, switching, wireless, security, voice, and virtualized applications.

The MSR50 Series has a rich set of modular WAN, LAN, and voice interface connectivity options, as well as embedded hardwarebased encryption and voice processing. With optional Open Architecture Platform (OAP) modules, it can deliver VMware vSphere, an industry-leading virtualization platform that integrates third-party applications with the router.

• High-performance, modular LAN/WAN router
• Converged routing, switching, wireless, voice, and security
• Third-party applications and virtualized services platform
• Embedded encryption, firewall, and other security features
• High reliability, with available dual power supplies and hot-swappable modules

• Traffic policing Supports Committed Access Rate (CAR) and line rate
• Congestion management Supports FIFO, PQ, CQ, WFQ, CBQ, and RTPQ
• Weighted random early detection (WRED)/random early detection (RED) Delivers congestion avoidance capabilities using queue management algorithms
• Other QoS technologies Support traffic shaping, FR QoS, MPLS QoS, and MP QoS/LFI

• 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: restricts access to critical configuration commands; offers multiple privilege levels with password protection; ACLs provide Telnet and SNMP access; local and remote syslog capabilities allow logging of all access
• SNMPv1, v2, and v3: provide complete support of SNMP; provide full support of industry-standard Management Information Base (MIB) plus private extensions; SNMPv3 supports increased security using encryption
• 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: FTP allows bidirectional transfers over a TCP/IP network and is used for configuration updates; Trivial FTP is a simpler method using User Datagram Protocol (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 timekeeping consistent 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

• High-density port connectivity: provides up to 10 interface module slots and up to 90 Fast Ethernet ports
• Multiple WAN and LAN interfaces: provide a traditional link with E3, T3, E1, T1, ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+, G.SHDSL, OC-3, POS, ATM, and ISDN/AM backup; deliver high-density Ethernet access with WAN Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet, LAN Fast Ethernet, and PoE; offer mobility access with IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and 3G
• 3G access support: provides 3G wireless access for primary or backup connectivity via a 3G SIC module certified on various cellular networks; optional carrier 3G USB modems are available
• 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

• Excellent forwarding performance: provides forwarding performance up to 800 Kpps/1280 Kpps (for two kinds of engines); meets current and future bandwidth-intensive application demands of 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

• Hot swappable modules: facilitate the replacement of hardware interface modules without impacting the traffic flow through the system
• Dual internal power supply: provides high reliability
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP): allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments; supports VRRP load balancing

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) fully supports standard IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) for faster convergence, and IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) protocol 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 4,094 ports or IEEE 802.1Q-based VLANs
• sFlow: allows traffic sampling

• 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
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) uses 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 IP stack: maintains separate stacks for IPv4 and IPv6 to ease the 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: provides OSPF support for IPv6
• 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 Switched 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; supports IPv6 MPLS VPN
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 2 VPN: establishes simple Layer 2 point-to-point VPNs across a provider network using only MPLS Label Distribution Protocol (LDP); 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

• 6 FIC slots

• FCC part 68; CS-03

• IMC—Intelligent Management Center; command-line interface; Web browser; SNMP Manager; Telnet; RMON1; FTP; IEEE 802.3 Ethernet MIB

• Dimensions: 17.17(w) x 16.69(d) x 6.89(h) in (43.6 x 42.4 x 17.5 cm) (4U height)
• Weight: 44.09 lb (20 kg)

• RISC @ 1700 MHz, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash
• RISC @ 833 MHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB compact flash

• Mounts in an EIA-standard 19 in. telco rack

• Throughput: up to 1280 Kpps (64-byte packets)
• Routing/Switching capacity: 3 Gbps
• Routing table size: 100000 entries (IPv4), 100000 entries (IPv6)

• Operating temperature: 32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)
• Operating relative humidity: 5% to 90%, noncondensing
• Nonoperating/Storage temperature: -40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C)
• Nonoperating/Storage relative humidity: 5% to 90%, noncondensing

• Frequency: 50/60 Hz
• Maximum heat dissipation: 1194 BTU/hr (1259.67 kJ/hr)
• AC voltage: 100 - 240 VAC
• Maximum power rating: 350 W
• PoE power: 500 W