Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions OmniSwitch 9000 manual

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    Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9000 Chassis LAN Switch[...]

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    Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 2 The awar d winning Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9000 family (OS9000s) is a pr oduct line of full- featur ed, high-performance 10-Gigabit Ether net chassis LAN switches that ranges fr om a low-cost, entry-point chassis. The OS9000s deliver future-pr oof solutions with advanced security and QoS features for use in smal[...]

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    Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 3 “This switch best supports the SNMP standar d and was the only participant to supply a web interface fr om which we could perform many tasks normally accomplished on a CLI.” OS9700, WINNER OF NETWORK COMPUTING’S EDIT OR’S CHOICE AW ARD[...]

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    Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 4 The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9000 Family The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9000 family of fers flexible featur es and benefits that make it an ideal switch to use thr oughout your network and works exceptionally well as a cor e or aggregation switch. The OS9000 family of fers a common set of network interface (NI) [...]

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    Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 5 Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9800 The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9800 (OS9800) has an 18-slot chassis which provides the largest capacity available in the OS9000 family and is designed for those applications that requir e a large port density . Designed for smart continuous switching operations, the two center slots a[...]

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    OmniSwitch 9700 CPU CPU CPU CPU X X X X Virtual Switching Fabric CMM Monitoring & Sychronization CMM A Active Contr ol Sta ndby Contr ol Sta ndby Gigabit Ethe rne t C onnect ion Acti ve Gigabit Ethe rne t C onnect ion CMM B NI 8 NI1 STP BPDU ARP Request Locally Processed Requests Centrally Processed Requests Routing Update Management Access Pri[...]

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    Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 7 OmniSwitch 9000 full redundancy F ans Redundancy CMM Redundancy P ower Redundancy HIGH PERFORMANCE FOR CONVERGED NETWORKS The OS9000 family is designed for resiliency and exceptional network performance to su p po rt rea l - time triple-play applications su c h as vo i ce -o v er - IP (V oIP), data and video appli[...]

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    8 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 SECURITY Alcatel-Lucent secur es the network with proactive and r eactive capabilities that ar e provided thr ough Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian and the Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager . The Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista Quarantine Manager is an open, attack containment solution that defends against a[...]

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    9 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 ENTERPRISE CORE / DA T A CENTER The OS9000s address enterprise network cor e requir ements with: n Enhanced V oIP and video performance with policy-based QoS n Future-pr oof support for multi-media applications with wire-rate multicast n Enhanced forwarding – impr oves network response time through har dware-bas[...]

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    10 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 AGGREGA TION LA YER The OS9000s address aggr egation requir ements with: n Higher 10G port density than competitive products n Increased options for wir e-rate GigE ports (copper , fiber , PoE) WIRING CLOSET CONNECTIVITY The OS9000 addresses wiring closet r equirements with: HIGHEST A V AILABILITY FOR THE ENTERP[...]

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    11 11 RESILIENCY – MAXIMIZED NETWORK UPTIME Network r esiliency is critical to providing network availability . The OS9000s of fer a superior architectur e with no single point of failur e and a subsecond fail-over in its r edundant configuration. In the event of a CMM failur e on an OmniSwitch 9800 or OmniSwitch 9700, they are able to pr ovide [...]

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    12 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 MUL TI-LA YER SECURITY W ith networks under constant attack fr om the outside world and even fr om within the company , a network needs to pr ovide easy access to users and r esources, yet possess extensive security featur es that can be managed acr oss a global enterprise. The OS9000s provide multi-layer securit[...]

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    13 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 ADV ANCED NETWORK POLICIES FOR SECURE AND CONVERGED NETWORKS Advanced network policies ensure that users and applications get the priority and performance they need with ease of use management that extends across the enterprise. The OS9000s featur e state-of- the-art ASIC-based technology for intelligent, wire-sp[...]

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    14 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 ALCA TEL-LUCENT OMNIVIST A AND ONETOUCH MANAGEABILITY OmniVista, the Alcatel-Lucent voice and data network management platform, is a comprehensive set of network management applications and tools that simplify the management of Alcatel-Lucent networking devices. OmniVista allows managers to monitor network activi[...]

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    15 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 The OmniSwitch 9000 family provides har dware-based classification for access control lists (ACLs) and quality of service (QoS). Mor e importantly it provides a way to transition fr om an existing IPv4 network with support of tunneling (configured 6-in-4). The OmniSwitch 9000s ar e able to work with the existing[...]

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    16 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 T echnical Specifications Network Interface All modules are hot swappable and can be used in any available NIs slot. • 2-port 10GBaseX (XFP) • 6-port 10GBaseX (XFP) • 24-port 1000BaseX (SFP) • 24-port 10/100/1000BaseT (RJ45) • 24-port P oE 10/100/1000BaseT (RJ45) • 48-port 10/100/1000BaseT (MRJ21) ?[...]

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    17 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 IP AND ROUTING BGP • RFC 1771-1774/2842/2918/3392 BGP v4 • RFC 1269/1657 BGP v3 and v4 MIB • RFC 3065 BGP AS Confederations • RFC 2385 BGP MD5 Signature • RFC 2042 BGP New Attribute • RFC 2439 BGP Route Flap Damping • RFC 2796 BGP Route Reflection • RFC 1965 BGP AS Confederations • RFC 1997/1998[...]

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    18 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 T echnical Specifications Layer -2 Switching VLAN • P ort based, IEEE 802.1Q VLANs • Advanced VLAN Classification: MAC, protocol, IP subnet • IEEE 802.1ad VLAN Stacking (a.k.a. QinQ) SP ANNING TREE • IEEE 802.1D Spanning T ree Protocol (STP) – 1998 / 2004 edition • IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning T ree Pr[...]

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    19 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000 Or dering information BUNDLES OS9600-CB-A OS9600 base bundle , to include OS9600 chassis, fan tray , 1 CMM, 1 PSU OS9600-RCB-A OS9600 redundant bundle , to include OS9600 chassis, fan tray , 1 CMM, 2 PSUs OS9700-CB-A OS9700 base bundle , to include OS9700 chassis, fan tray , 1 CMM, 2 PSUs OS9700-RCB-A OS9700 redu[...]

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