Customer Profile
• Enterprise customers
• Service Providers and Carriers
Defining needs
Enterprise Customers:
• Is reliability critical to your business?
• Do you plan to upgrade your existing
Ethernet network?
• Do you plan do migrate your network from ATM
or Token Ring to Ethernet?
• Do you plan to unify your communications onto
one network?
• What are your plans for deploying web
hosting services?
• Do you have mission-critical traffic requiring
prioritisation?
• What are your plans for deploying Quality
of Service?
• What are your plans for deploying
Internet telephony?
• What are your plans for deploying streaming
audio or video applications?
• What are your plans for deploying desktop-based
instruction?
• What are your plans for deploying 10 Gigabit
Ethernet?
• Do you plan to connect to an optical Ethernet
service provider?
• Does fibre scarcity prevent you from providing
high-speed data services to multiple sites?
Service Providers and Carriers:
• Do you plan to upgrade your Metropolitan
network service to Ethernet?
• Do you want to connect your points of presence
via Ethernet?
• What are your plans for deploying 10 Gigabit
Ethernet?
• Do you require internal Ethernet Connectivity?
• What are your plans for offering Optical Ethernet
services?
• What are your plans for deploying an Internet
Data Centre?
• Is reliability critical to your customers?
• What are your plans for delivering Virtual Private
Network services?
Passport 8000 Chassis 29
Passport 8000 Chassis
Overview
The Passport 8000 series is comprised of four chassis - the ten slot Passport 8010 and Passport 8010CO, the six
slot Passport 8006 and the three slot Passport 8003. The series also includes two categories of modules, the
Passport 8100 series Edge Switch modules and the Passport 8600 Routing Switch series modules.
The Passport 8010, 8010CO and 8006 chassis support all Passport 8000 modules. All chassis components are
hot swappable and include N+1 power redundancy. These chassis provide high density, redundant solutions
for both the wiring closet and network core:
• The 10-slot Passport 8010 chassis is designed for high-density campus wiring closet and backbones needing
the highest levels of availability and scalability.
• The Passport 8010CO chassis is a NEBS 3-compliant chassis that supports all Passport 8000 series modules.
This chassis provides Service Providers and Carriers with a fully redundant carrier class solution.
• The 6-slot chassis is designed for medium-sized, lower-density wiring closets and backbones.
• The Passport 8003 chassis supports all existing Passport 8600 series routing switch modules only.
This chassis brings all the functionality of a larger core switch to a smaller footprint.
Passport 8000 Series
8003 8006 8010 8010co