IPV6 SUPPORT
The OmniSwitch 9000 family provides full IPv6 support, and wire-rate performance on classifying, forwarding and tunneling to address various corporate and government requirements for IPv6.
Unlike most switches that support IPv6, the performance of the OS9000s is unaffected by enabling IPv6 processing whether deploying IPv4, IPv6, or IPv4/IPv6. These switches address the U.S. Federal government Department of Defense (DoD) requirement that IPv6 be supported for migration by 2008 and addresses other countries’ requirements including:
The OmniSwitch 9000s are
certified as “IPv6 Ready”
■Ability to connect to the IPv6 backbone
■Use of IPv6 across public organizations
■Ability to interconnect the IPv6 “island” through an existing IPv4 network through hardware-based tunneling
■Ability to control IPv6 flows with extensive QoS/ACL policies
The OmniSwitch 9000 family provides hardware-based classification for access control lists (ACLs) and quality of service (QoS). More importantly it provides a way to transition from an existing IPv4 network with support of tunneling (configured 6-in-4). The OmniSwitch 9000s are able to work with the existing AOS switches, and support the full suite of unicast routing protocols, multicast registration and routing protocols, QoS/ACLs and tunneling.
FIRST GREEN SWITCH IN THE MARKET – ROHS COMPLIANCY
Alcatel-Lucent is the first switch manufacturer to be in compliance with directives from around the world that require electronic equipment to be free of hazardous substances. The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9000 family meets those requirements and was the first to meet the European Community’s directive called Restriction on Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS). The whole world benefits from these “green” switches by lessening the amount of hazardous substances that find their way into the environment.
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