Allied Telesis Switchblade AT-x908 manual

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    K ey F eatures Expandability • 8 high speed 60Gbps expansion ba ys • 2 x 80Gbps stacking connectors on the rear of the chassis, for use as high a vailability stacking links for 2 SwitchBlade x908s 3 • Stacking of up to 4 SwitchBlade x908s using the stacking module, XEM-STK 4 • IPv6 routing option Perf ormance • 640Gbps Switching fabric ?[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch P erformance Wire speed s witching The SwitchBlade x908 has fully non-blocking switching on all por ts, so IPv4 Layer 2 switching and Lay er 3 routing occur at wire speed. This is ideal for high-end ser ver deployments, and when aggregating gigabit con[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch Diagram 1 illustr ates the SwitchBlade x908 in a Medium Business network. This is ideal for customers who want to deploy a networ k solution that will accommodate today’ s needs as well as scale to meet their future needs. Inherent in the architectur[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch Diagram 2 illustr ates the SwitchBlade x908 in an Enterprise Campus networ k. Education providers are able to offer high speed connection to the desktop for pow er user s and utilize high-capacity uplinks for maximum throughput of high-density traffic.[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch With two 80Gbps stacking por ts on the rear of the device , the SwitchBlade x908 is an ideal solution for Enter prises wanting to create a resilient core without going to the expense of a full chassis solution. The use of stacking across the two device[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch Ethernet Protected Switched Rings (EPSR) and 10 GbE modules allow the SwitchBlade x908, with a number of x900 switches or iMAPs, to for m a high speed protected ring with sub 50ms failover , as illustrated in Diagr am 4 above. This feature is perfect f[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch Internal PSUs eliminate the need for an exter nal Redundant P ower Supply (RPS) which occupies valuable rack space . Built-in redundancy guar antees the continued deliver y of essential ser vices. Comprehensive low-latency Quality of Ser vice (QoS) fea[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch Standards and Pr otocols AlliedW are Plus™ Operating System V ersion 5.2.1 Authentication RFC 1321 MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm RFC 1828 IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 RFC 2082 RIP-2 MD5 Authentication Border Gatewa y Pr otocol (BGP) BGP Dynamic C[...]

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    Allied T elesis www .alliedtelesis.com S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch RFC 4251 Secure Shell (SSHv2) Protocol Architecture RFC 4252 Secure Shell (SSHv2) Authentication Protocol RFC 4253 Secure Shell (SSHv2) T ranspor t Lay er Protocol RFC 4254 Secure Shell (SSHv2) Connection Protocol SSH Remote Login SSLv2 SSLv3 Ser vices[...]

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    © 2008 Allied T elesis Inc . All rights reser ved. Infor mation in this document is subject to change without notice. All company names, logos, and product designs that are trademarks or registered tr ademarks are the proper ty of their respective owner s. 617-000170 Rev . L S WITCH B LADE ® X 908 | Advanced La yer 3 Modular Switch USA Headquarte[...]