General Scope of Work Purchase of Switches and Accessories Locations of Delivery: Indian Statistical Institute 203 B.T. Road, Kolkata 700108, West Bengal, INDIA REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR PURCHASE OF CORE FARM SWITCH AND ACCESSORIES Sl No. Bill of Materials Description Quantity 1. Core Farm Switch 1 2. 10g SR transceivers module 10 3. 1g sx transceivers module 5 4. 3 years support of the switch and accessories 1 Technical Specifications for Core Farm Switches Hardware & Performance Requirements 1 Architecture Chassis based Multilayer Switch with sufficient modules/line cards to fit required transceivers/utp ports. Chassis shall have minimum 7 payload slots. Switch should have at least 4 free payload slots. Switch must support virtualization (not required from day 1) in the physical device itself, presenting the physical switch as multiple logical devices with minimum 4 Virtual Devices in a single physical switch. Switch should also support remote line card features by which the line card can be extended as a top of the rack switch in a different rack, the uplinks can be 1G/10G/40G and the line card interface should support 1G/10G Ethernet and also FCoE. The remote line card technology should be extensions of the parent switch fabric, and together they should form a distributed modular system. Bidders are not allowed to propose separate switch or any other technology to meet the remote line card requirement. 2 System Throughput The total aggregate switching capacity shall be 7 Tbps or more. Switch should support 500 Gbps or more per slot bandwidth. 3 Switch Redundancy There should not be any single point of failure in the switch. All the main components like CPU module, switching fabric, support module, system clock, power supplies and fans etc should be in redundant configuration. Components, like modules/power supplies/fan tray should be Hot Swappable
4 CPU Level Redundancy 5 Flash & Memory 6 Switch Forwarding Rates (Layer 2) 7 Routing Capability (Layer 3) 8 Backplane Connect Capacity 9 Switching Architecture 10 10 Gigabit Ethernet Capability 11 No. of 1000 BaseTX UTP Ports The switch should have redundant CPU's working in an active-active or active-standby mode.there should not be any traffic disruption during the CPU fail-over/change-over and the fail-over time should be less than 1 sec. The proposed switch should have enough Memory (Flash and RAM) to hold the latest Software Release. It should support all features of switch and parameters like MAC Address Table, IP Routing Tables, VLANs etc.at their peak values as claimed in the Data Sheets of the Switch. The Switch should Support Minimum Switching (Layer 2) Performance of 900+ Mpps. Performance should be hardware based. The Minimum IPv4 Routing Performance should 900+ Mpps. Performance should be hardware based. The Backplane should be 100% Passive. The Switch should have a Truly Distributed Architecture. All Interface Modules should have all the resources for switching and Routing and should offer True Local Switching (Intra-Module and Inter-Module). The switch should be equipped with 48 10G (non blocking) SPF+ ports and upgradeable to at least 300*10G ports. 10 no. of 10g sr and 5 no. 1g sx to be quoted from day one. The switch should be equipped with 46*10/100/1000BaseT gigabit ethernet (non blocking). Connectivity & Filtering 12 802.3ad Should support Industry Standard Port/Link Aggregation for All Ports. Also Cross Module Link aggregation should be supported. Switch should also support a feature which allows links that are physically connected to two different devices to appear as a single aggregated link to a third device. 13 Jumbo Frames Jumbo Frames support up to 9K Bytes on Gigabit / 10 G Ports 14 Storm Control Support for broadcast/multicast/unicast storm control to prevent degradation of switch performance from faulty end stations Layer 2 Functionality 15 802.1Q Should support port, subnet based 802.1Q VLANs. The switch should support 4000 active vlans 16 MAC Addresses The switch should support 120,000 no. of MAC addresses. 17 Spanning-Tree The switch should support IEEE 802.1w RSTP and IEEE 802.1s MSTP protocol 18 Layer 2 Extension Should support IP-based functionality that can provide Layer 2 extension capabilities over any transport infrastructure: Layer 2 based, Layer 3 based, IP switched, label switched, and so on. Layer 3 Functionality 19 Routing Protocols Should support RIP v1/v2, OSPF, BGPv4, IS-IS 20 Ipv6 Support Should support IPv6 packet switching and routing using OSPFv3, RIPng in hardware from day one. 21 Equal Cost Load Should support Equal Cost Load Balancing Balancing 22 No. of Route Entries Should support minimum 100000 Route entries., minimum 30,000 multicast route entires. Security Features 23 Access Control Lists Should support Standard and Extended ACLs 24 Various type of ACLs Should support various type of ACLs like port based/time based. 25 Integrated Security Should support integrated security features like DHCP snooping with option- 82, Dynamic Arp Inspection, IP Source guard and urpf (unicast Reverse path forwarding) 26 MAC Address Filtering Should Support MAC Address Filtering based on source and destination address 27 802.1X Should support 802.1X Network Security and Authentication 28 RADIUS/ TACACS Should have support for RADIUS and TACACS+ 29 Control plane filtering The switch should support control plane policing to filter the unwanted traffic to fill up the CPU queues. 30 Access Control The switch should support 50000 Security and QOS ACL's. Enries 31 Port Security The switch should support Port-security. Switch Redundancy
32 Redundancy in Hardware Should Have Redundancy for Power Supply, FANs and clocks to minimise unavailability of switch 33 SSO/NSF Stateful Switchover and Nonstop Forwarding to ensure that in case of failure of active CPU module the redundant CPU should start switching L2/L3 traffic in less than 1 sec (in case switch has redundant CPU). 34 Hitless Software Upgrades Should Support Hitless software upgrades to reduce downtime during software upgrade 35 Graceful Restart The switch should support granceful restart for all IPv4 routing protocols and OSPFv3 graceful restart for IPv6 Network Protocols 36 VRRP Should Support VRRP Protocol or equivalent 37 DNS, TFTP, NTP Should support DNS, TFTP and NTP protocols 38 VRF Should support VRF awareness for all routing protocol and IP Services 39 GRE The Switch should support GRE tunneling protocol Quality of Service 40 Ingress/Egress Should support Ingress/Egress Queuing Queuing 41 Traffic Policing Should be able to limit traffic flows based on MAC Source/Destination address, IP Source/ Destinations address, TCP/UDP port nos etc 42 QoS Scheduling Should support QoS scheduling with queues supported in hardware 43 Queue per port Should support minimum 8 queues per port 44 Traffic Classification Should support policy based traffic classification based on Type of Service (ToS), IP Precedence mapping, Layer 2/3/4 defined traffic flows, MAC address, VLANs Multicasti ng 45 Multicast Should support H/W based IPv4 and IPv6 Multicasting 46 IGMP Should Support IGMP v1, v2, v3, IGMP Snooping 47 PIM Should support Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode and PIM - SSM for IPv44 and IPv6, MSDP Managem ent 48 Network monitoring/manage ment Switch should be manageable through NMS on per port/switch basis with common interface for all manageable devices on the network. Should Support SNMP, RMON/RMON-II, SSH, telnet, web management through network management software. 49 Port Mirroring Should support port mirroring feature for monitoring network traffic of a particular port/vlan/group of ports/entire switch. 50 RBAC The switch should support role based access control to limit access to switch operations. 51 Config rollback The switch should support configuration verification and roll-back. 52 SNMP The switch should support SNMP v1,v2c and V3 Software 53 Software Version Version of software for supplied switch should be latest release to support all required features IEEE Standards Compliance 54 IEEE Standards Ethernet: IEEE 802.3, 10BASE-T, Fast Ethernet: IEEE 802.3u, 100BASE-TX Gigabit Ethernet: IEEE 802.3z, IEEE 802.3ab, 1000BASE-X (mini-gbic/sfp), 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX/LH, 1000Base-ZX and CWDM based SFP support 10G Ethernet: IEEE 802.3ae, 10GBase-SR, 10GBase-LR, 10GBase-T Support for 40G and 100G (Line cards should be available for ordering) without upgrading the chassis. IEEE 802.1D Spanning-Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1S & 1W for Rapid Spanning tree and Multiple Spanning-tree convergence IEEE 802.1p CoS Prioritization, IEEE 802.3x Flow Control Support for FCoE and FCoE enabled line cards.
Support : 1. Support should be direct OEM support (via phone, web and email) and the same should cover hardware replacement and should also provide entitlement to upgrade and update the operating system and all essential software directly by customer. 2. Technical call Center of the OEM should be accessible 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to assist with Product use, Configuration and troubleshooting issues. OEM Eligibility Criteria: All the active components of the Server should be from the same OEM. The OEM should be an ISO-9000 and ISO-14001 certified company. Consortium: If the Bidder is not a manufacturer he should provide documentary evidence (e.g. Manufacturers Authorization Form) for having tied up with all the participating Manufacturing agencies. Tax and Duty Exemption: The Institute may provide necessary certificates for tax/duty exemption as applicable. Bid Currencies: Bids are to be quoted in Indian Rupees only.
Cancellation of Tender: 1. The Institute may cancel the tender processing at any point of time prior to the issuance of purchase order without assigning any reason whatsoever for unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances. 2. The Institute may also cancel the tender processing for want of any participating Bidder or if all the participating Bidders fail to qualify eligibility in terms with technical or other reasons. Technical & commercial bids should be submitted in separate sealed envelopes mentioning the contents on it. Any Technical Bid not containing the above specifications may be rejected. The Technical Bid should not contain any price information; such proposal will be rejected. Bid opening: Opening date of the sealed envelopes of the bidders containing the document marked Technical Bid, shall be announced in the Institute website (http://www.isical.ac.in) in announcemet column. One representative of each bidder may participate at the time of opening the bids (The representative must have the valid authorization from their respective company for attending the tender opening meeting). The Commercial Bid of only those parties who qualify in Technical Bid will be opened on a later date.
Bill of Materials (To be included in Technical Bid) The Bidder should provide Bill of Material (details of all modules) in the following format. Module/Item Descripti on Make/ Model/ Version Part Number Principal Vendor/ Manufacturer Quantity/ No. of Licenses per installation Signature of Bidder : Name : Business address : Place : Date :
Bill of Materials (To be included in Commercial Bid) Modu le/ Item Make/ Model/ Version Part Number Principal Vendor/ Manufacturer Quantity/ No. of Licenses per installation Unit Price Total Price without Tax Tax % Tax Estimate Total Price with Tax Signature of Bidder : Name : Business address : Place : Date :
Quotation Address: To The Head Computer and Statistical Service Centre Indian Statistical Institute 203, Barrackpore Trunk (B.T.) Road, Kolkata 700 108 West Bengal, India