Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions OmniSwitch 9000 manual Product Features and Benefits

PRODUCT FEATURES AND BENEFITS

The OS9000 switch family addresses the needs of converged networks: high availability, wire-speed performance, high density GigE and 10GigE, and improved network response time.

The OS9000 family provides an easy and economical way to upgrade or deploy a new Ethernet network. The large number of ports makes the OmniSwitch 9000s suitable for two- or three-tier network designs. This is possible because of the high performance capability and density of GigE and 10GigE. The OS9000s also future proofs the network with native and full support of simultaneous IPv4 / IPv6 for addressing migration from IPv4 to IPv6 or new IPv6 deployments.

The OS9000s are engineered to be deployed in the:

■ Enterprise core	■ Wiring closet
■ Data center	■ Aggregation layer

OmniSwitch 9700

	Virtual Switching Fabric			CMM Monitoring
				& Sychronization
Locally Processed
Requests
	CPU		CPU	CPU
STP BPDU	CPU
ARP Request
	X	X	X	X
Routing Update
Management Access
NI1	CMM A	CMM B		NI 8
Centrally Processed	Active Control	Standby Control
Requests

Active Gigabit Ethernet Connection

Standby Gigabit Ethernet Connection

Principle of operation for distributed intelligence

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