Allied Telesis AT-SB4008 manual

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com Datasheet | Switches SWITCHBLADE ® 4000 La y er 3 Modular Switch A T -SB4004 4 line card capacity Up to 96 Gb por ts A T -SB4008 8 line card capacity Up to 192 Gb por ts Designed to meet the most demanding performance requirements of enter prise class networks, the SwitchBlade ® 4000 Series Layer 3 modular s[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com SWITCHBLADE ® 4000 | La yer 3 Modular Switch Quality of Ser vice The A T -SB4000 Ser ies mar ket leading Quality of Ser vice (QoS) mechanism allows tr affic shaping in a highly programmable manner , based on La yer 2 to Lay er 4+ packet char acteristics. The resulting 128 different Classes of T r affic enable[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com SWITCHBLADE ® 4000 | La yer 3 Modular Switch Fan T rays The A T -SB4108 8 slot chassis has a fan tr ay of six fans with a pow er consumption of 43W and a weight of 3.7kg (8.2 lbs) unpackaged , or 4.5kg (9.9 lbs) packaged. The A T -SB4104 4 slot chassis has a fan tr ay of four fans with a pow er consumption of[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com SWITCHBLADE ® 4000 | La yer 3 Modular Switch SwitchBlade ® Line Cards All line cards hav e: • ASIC switch chips operating in Layer 3 mode • 40 k-entr y forwarding address database • Suppor t for protocol-based VLANS and MA C address learning • 64 MByte RAMBUS packet buff er per switch chip • 33MHz [...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com SWITCHBLADE ® 4000 | La yer 3 Modular Switch Card W a ve Length Fibre T ype T ransmitter dBm Min Receiv er Sensitivity Max dBm (of same card) dBm loss allo wed Max. 1 Minimum distance using IEEE 802.3 fibre a ttenuation (Km) 2 3 Receiv ed Po wer Max. dBm a vg. 4 A T -SB4352 32 port (MT -RJ) 1310nm 50.0um -20 [...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com SWITCHBLADE ® 4000 | La yer 3 Modular Switch Quality of Service Queues / port 8 Priority queuing levels 8 802.1p Ye s IETF DiffServ Ye s Strict priority queuing Ye s BW slice resolution (bps) 64k W eighted fair queuing (equivalent) Ye s Random early detection Ye s Min/Max BW control Ye s P or ts killed for BW[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com SWITCHBLADE ® 4000 | La yer 3 Modular Switch Standards and Pr otocols Software Release 2.7.5A-06 Border Gate way Pr otocol 4 (BGP-4) 7 RFC 1771 Border Gateway Protocol 4 RFC 1966 BGP Route Reflection RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute RFC 1998 Multi-home Routing RFC 3065 Autonomous System Confederations for B[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com SWITCHBLADE ® 4000 | La yer 3 Modular Switch P ar t Numbers Chassis A T -SB4108-00 8 slot 3 inlet AC chassis (no PSUs) A T -SB4108-80 8 slot 2 inlet DC chassis (no PSUs) A T -SB4104-00 4 slot 2 inlet AC chassis (no PSUs) A T -SB4104-80 4 slot 2 inlet DC chassis (no PSUs) Switch Controller Car ds A T -SB4211A [...]

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