With the advent of VOIP, iSCSI storage and the increasing requirement for school systems to be available, the core of your network has become a vital part of a school’s infrastructure.

The HP ProCurve 8200zl Switch Series offers high performance, scalability, and a wide range of features in a high-availability platform that dramatically reduces complexity and provides reduced cost of ownership. With key technologies to provide solution longevity, the 8200zl switch series is built to deliver long-term investment protection without added complexity for network core, aggregation, and high-availability access layer deployments.

The 8200zl switch series can help your school fortify security, increase productivity, and reduce complexity— allowing it to compete and thrive. You can take advantage of common networking, security, QoS, and resiliency features in a highly integrated, programmable, and flexible architecture to simplify network operation. With excellent performance, comprehensive features and excellent built-in network security capabilities, the 8200zl switch series was designed to capably and reliably support a wide range of deployments for schools of 500 to 10,000 users.

The release of the 8200zl gives a level of redundancy to the core of your network. Now with the release of the 8206zl, this level of redundancy is available at a lower cost and a smaller footprint. The 8206zl is a 6U switch (10.5 inch/26.67 cm), designed with high-availability features, dual redundant management modules, dual resilient fabric modules, and redundant power supplies. The chassis can hold up to 6 zl interface and service modules and can provide up to either 144 Gigabit ports or 24 10-Gigabit ports. The throughput of the 8206zl switch fabric is capable of up to 240.2 million (64-byte) packets per second (Mpps), with a backplane speed of 345.6 Gbps.