- Excellent forwarding performance
- Powerful security capacity
- Advanced hardware architecture
- Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
- Multiple WAN interfaces
- USB interface
- Flexible port selection
- Spanning tree protocol (STP)
- Routing information protocol (RIP)
- Border gateway protocol 4 (BGP-4)
- Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS)
- IPv6 tunneling
- Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)
- Routing policy
- Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)
- Hierarchical quality of service (HQoS)/nested QoS
- Access control list (ACL)
- Unicast reverse path forwarding (URPF)
- Secure shell (SSHv2)
- Internet group management protocol (IGMP)
- Protocol independent Multicast (PIM)
- Embedded NetStream
- SIP trunking
- Virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP)
- Bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD)
- SNMPv1, v2, and v3
- Remote monitoring (RMON)
- FTP, TFTP, and SFTP support
- Management interface control
- Network quality analyzer (NQA)
The HPE MSR4000 router series supports HPE FlexBranch solution as part HPE's overall comprehensive HPE FlexNetwork architecture. It features a modular design that delivers unmatched application services for extra large branch offices, headquarters and campus, while reducing complexity, simplifying configuration, deployment and management. The MSR4000 router series provides a full-featured, resilient routing platform, including IPv6 and MPLS, up to 20 Mpps forwarding capacity and 8 Gbps of IPsec VPN encrypted throughput. The MSR4000 router series leverages separated data and control planes, dual MPUs (main processing units) and support for up to four power supplies ensuring the highest performance and reliability.