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Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 10K Modular Ethernet LAN Chassis is the first of a new generation of network adaptable LAN switches, designed to deliver a high quality user experience while optimizing the performance of legacy, real-time, and multimedia applications.

This high capacity, high performance modular switch provides a secure networking environment and meets high availability demands with uninterrupted uptime. It improves application performance and user experience with deep packet buffers, lossless virtual output queuing (VOQ) fabric and extensive traffic management capabilities. It simplifies layer 2 network deployment and offers scalability to meet current and future bandwidth requirements.

The lowest power consumption in its class, front-to-back cooling, front-accessible components, and a compact form factor make the OmniSwitch 10K a perfect fit for mid- to large-sized enterprises, data centers and works well as a long-term upgrade to any network.

Benefits

Enhanced Application and User Experience

High density, non-blocking 10GigE ports with large per-port packet buffers enable maximum network performance and quality bandwidth for improved application and user experience.

Cost Reduction

The OmniSwitch 10K reduces network layers, initial investment, and operating costs.

Network Optimization

The use of Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Group (MC-LAG) simplifies layer 2 network designs, reduces administration overhead and increases network resiliency.

Investment Protection

The OmniSwitch 10K works with any Ethernet switch that supports the 802.3ad standard, and provides interoperability, flexibility, and investment protection.

Multi-use Scalability

MPLS and data center ready architecture expands deployment capabilities, reduces vendor sprawl and lowers operating costs.

Compact Form Factor

Chassis size, front-to-back cooling, component accessibility, 256 ports per chassis, and compatibility with existing platforms meet stringent data center needs and simplifies upgrade or replacement of equipment.

High Reliability

Increased resiliency and system redundancy provides maximum uptime in the network core.

Features

Technical Info

Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9000E series is a new, high capacity core switch that addresses the need for a secured and highly available voice, data and video solution for large enterprise core switches and data centers, or a metro Ethernet environment.

This latest Alcatel-Lucent product offering supports the familiar and field proven AOS functionality and thus can be effortlessly deployed within our existing OmniSwitch 9000 systems while offering extended features to address new customer requirements.

The switch family offers enterprises:

• Gigabit capacity
• Advanced layer 3 switching
• High availability through in-service software upgrades
• Layer-2 segregation using virtual local area networks (VLANs) and stacked VLANs (also known as QinQ)
• Layer-3 segregation by multiple virtual routing and forwarding ( multiple VRF)
• Eco-sustainability by minimizing BTUs/hour thus reducing energy requirements and air-conditioning costs

Models

• OmniSwitch 9800E - Our largest chassis, features the highest port density and performance available for large enterprise networks. It offers high availability through: a design that features no single point of failure, smart continuous switching operation, and in service software upgrade capability. Plus, it performs at extremely low power consumption levels.
• OmniSwitch 9700E - Our workhorse product, combines the value of the OS9800E in a smaller form factor.

The OmniSwitch 9000E is a newer version of the OmniSwitch 9000 family. The OmniSwitch 9000E family offers additional capabilities such as multiple virtual routing and forwarding, MPLS, in-service software upgrade capabilities and extremely low power consumption.

Overview

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9000 Chassis LAN Switch series is comprised of full featured layer-2 and layer-3, high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) switches that provide advanced security, IPv4 and IPv6 routing, quality of service (QoS) and power over Ethernet (PoE) support. Its industry awards, benchmark-setting performance and high reliability, makes it an industry best value for next generation networks.

Models & Management

• OmniSwitch 9800 - Our high-performance enterprise workhorse that works with extremely low power consumption. Ideal for smart continuous switching operations.
• OmniSwitch 9700 - Designed for the enterprise core and aggregation layer, it can also be deployed in the closet
• OmniSwitch 9600 - An affordable core supporting converged voice, video, data and other applications. Ideal as an entry point
• OmniVista 2500 Network Management System and its supplemental services is the foundation for managing the networks composed of OmniSwitches and other network devices

Industry Awards

Tolly Tested - Functionality Certification and Cooperative Interoperability Evaluation: Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850 and OmniSwitch 9800, switches shown to be interoperable with competitors in more than a dozen tests to meet The Tolly Group's "Up to Spec" certification. (July 2007)

Network Computing's "Editor's choice Award": OmniSwitch 9700 takes Network Computing's "Editor's choice Award." (10 March 2006)

The OmniSwitch 9000E is a newer version of the OmniSwitch 9000 family. The OmniSwitch 9000E family offers additional capabilities such as multiple virtual routing and forwarding, MPLS, in-service software upgrade capabilities and extremely low power consumption.

Features

Improved aggregation switching

The OS9000 addresses aggregation requirements:

• Increased options for wire-rate GigE ports (copper, fiber, PoE)
• Broad range of 10G port density per network interface module and chassis
• Enhanced performance with hardware-based forwarding at first packet and distributed architecture
• Easy ACL management with OmniVista 2760 SecureView ACL and wire-rate performance with support for large numbers of ACLs
• OneTouch VoIP and video performance with OmniVista PolicyView
• Resilient design with redundant fans and power supply featuring (1+1 redundancy)
• High-availability in network designs with dual-aggregation switch through extensive support of L2/L3 protocols for smart use of network topology redundancy

Improved wiring closet connectivity

The OS9000 addresses wiring closet requirements with:

• Improved network response time through hardware-based forwarding at first packet
• Power-over-Ethernet support for IP telephones and WLAN access points
• Enhanced security with user-centric security featuring Alcatel Access Guardian
• Isolation of intruders with OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager
• Easy ACL management with OmniVista 2760 SecureView ACL and wire-rate performance with large numbers of ACLs
• OneTouch VoIP and video performance with OmniVista PolicyView
• Future proof support for multi-media applications with wire-rate multicasting

IPv6

In the five to seven-year life of a chassis LAN switch (Current Analysis, Dell’oro) support for IPv6 is either essential or prudent risk management. The OS9000 family supports IPv6 and IPv4 at wire rates.

Technical Info

Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS) router is designed from the ground up to deliver revenue-generating Carrier Ethernet VPN services for both consumer and business markets, while minimizing operating expenses to reduce the total cost of ownership.

With industry leading density and performance, the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch router supports scalable, reliable and predictable SLA-based services for consumer triple play and business Carrier Ethernet VPN services.

Chassis Configurations

The scalable performance and port density provided by the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS router is available in four chassis configurations:

• 12-slot Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS-12
• 7-slot Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS-7
• 6-slot Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS-6
• 1-slot Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS-1

Benefits

Increased revenues with innovative, differentiated services
With a leading PBB/VPLS implementation, Ethernet-based services using the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS can be scaled to the highest levels with no sacrifice in performance. Support for IP-VPNs and other IP-based services allows revenue expansion opportunities beyond Ethernet-only environments. With an MS-ISA integrated into the 7450 ESS platform, opportunities can be capitalized on as they arise, whether it be short term, application specific processing in a business service context, or a longer term video application in a residential IPTV service context. With advanced Hierarchical QoS capabilities on the 7450 ESS, highly available and predictable services enable support of the highly stringent SLAs required to deliver advanced next-generation applications including video, IPTV, multimedia Internet, and premium business VPN services.

Ubiquitous services with massive scale and reach
The 7450 ESS provides a robust and proven MPLS-enabled Carrier Ethernet solution that allows Ethernet to be leveraged for its performance and economic benefits, while simultaneously leveraging IP/MPLS protocols and traffic engineering capabilities for efficient, reliable transport of any service or application and seamless integration with the IP/MPLS provider edge. This enables the consolidation of next-generation residential, business and mobile services on a single platform. VPLS/ELAN and VLL/ E-Line services leverage MPLS to provide seamless Carrier Ethernet service reach over metro, national and international geographies. An innovative PBB/VPLS solution on the 7450 ESS platform enhances network and service scalability — both in terms of reach and MAC addressing — to support the expansion of Carrier Ethernet VPN service into new territories.

High customer satisfaction with non-stop Carrier Ethernet
The 7450 ESS high availability feature set, including non-stop services, non-stop routing, ITU-T G.8031/G.8032 and FRR, enables a flawless quality of experience and promotes brand differentiation. All services (VLL, VPLS, enhanced Internet services) and applications are kept running and true stateful resiliency of IP routing and MPLS signaling protocols occurs during a control plane failure.

Dramatically improved return on investment
With the 7450 ESS’s flexibility to enable a converged packet aggregation infrastructure using MPLS-enabled Carrier Ethernet, networking is simplified and costs can be significantly reduced. The 7450 ESS platform's multi-terabit system capacity with a proven “in-place” upgrade to 100 Gb/s (full duplex) per-slot capacity provides unmatched investment protection at the highest levels of scalability. The interface density and variety, combined with high subscriber and service scale, allow for more subscribers per platform to further improve return on investment without compromising performance and service quality.

Reduced operational costs with improved service assurance and service velocity
By supporting the convergence of wireline and wireless services on a 7450 ESS-based Carrier Ethernet metro network, operations and administration are simplified, because all services run over a platform with a consistent feature set, operational model, and management suite. The tight integration of the 7450 ESS operating system with Alcatel-Lucent's service and network management suite, including the 5620 SAM, 5650 CPAM, and the 5670 RAM, provides a unified operations solution that also reduces ongoing operational costs while enabling precise service-aware SLA control. Simplified service assurance helps reduce MTTR with rapid problem detection, isolation, and prevention; and a fully integrated service-aware OAM tool kit improves overall service availability.

Investment protection
From its introduction, the 7450 ESS family has evolved with customer feature and scaling requirements. The 7450 ESS’s sophisticated and flexible hardware has a track record of allowing new features and enhancements to be introduced “in-place” in software, rather than through a rapid series of ever-changing hardware iterations. The award-winning FP2 network processing silicon ensures 7450 ESS platform capacity and service scale can continually evolve in step with customer requirements, providing an unprecedented level of investment protection.

Environmentally friendly
Alcatel-Lucent is committed to supplying environmentally friendly solutions. Pioneering advances in power efficiency are incorporated into the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS product family, reducing the expense of both powering and cooling when compared products with less advanced silicon technology. Combined with environmentally sensitive manufacturing processes, careful materials selection, and a view to sustainable product life cycle management, the 7450 ESS platform assists service providers in reducing their environmental impact while lowering operational cost.

Features

Multi-terabit capacity
The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS delivers multi-terabit switching capacity to meet ever increasing bandwidth requirements. Leveraging breakthrough in-house developed FP2 silicon, the 7450 ESS provides a migration path to multi-terabit system capacity with 100 Gb/s (full duplex) slots on existing systems — without a forklift upgrade. Supporting up to 2 terabits of throughput (half duplex) in one-third of a telco rack, the 7450 ESS enables providers to fully utilize its 100 Gb/s (full duplex) slot capacity with no tradeoff between terabit performance and service delivery.

Advanced Carrier Ethernet services delivery and networking
Designed as a service delivery platform, the 7450 ESS provides comprehensive Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS feature and protocol support, allowing a full complement of residential, business and mobile services across virtually any topology, point-to-point or any-to-any. The 7450 ESS enables the flexibility to offer any combination of Ethernet or IP-based services. With a market-leading PBB/VPLS solution, service providers have a highly scalable Ethernet based solution that can support hundreds of thousands of end-users. The 7450 ESS also supports the ability to offer Advanced IP Services, leveraging Service Routing technology from the 7750 SR platform. This helps protect investments and allows full asset utilization for existing Ethernet services, while creating revenue expansion opportunities via the ability to offer new IP services.

High density service aggregation
The 7450 ESS supplies a wide range of high-density, flexible Ethernet and SONET/SDH interface options for cost-effective Carrier Ethernet service delivery and aggregation. With a full compliment of 10M/100M/1G/10G Ethernet interfaces with SFP/XFP/copper support, the 7450 ESS can support up to 2,880 GigE ports/rack or up to 360 10GigE ports/rack. Synchronous Ethernet support is also provided on MDA-XP interfaces. SONET/SDH MDAs are available to support legacy environments (OC-3c/STM-1c, OC12-c/STM-4c and OC-48c/STM-16c). Other interface options include a 10 GigE MDA with integrated tunable DWDM optics and a High-Scale MDA for residential applications. With the ability to mix-and-match interface types at the IOM level and/or between chassis, the 7450 ESS provides outstanding flexibility to fit almost any application.

Best-in-class availability
The 7450 ESS provides an industry-leading and field proven high availability feature set that minimizes service disruption. Non-stop routing, non-stop services, stateful failover capabilities, in-service software upgrades (ISSU), and innovative multi-chassis LAG and Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching deliver superior service resiliency. The 7450 ESS also supports a wide variety of service assurance and availability monitoring tools across IP, MPLS, and Ethernet domains, including Fast Re-Route, Graceful Restart Helper mode, MPLS-TE Graceful Shutdown, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, and Pseudo-wire redundancy, to name only several.

Proven end-to-end operating system
Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Operating System (SR OS) is a carrier-grade, highly fault-tolerant, and feature-rich operating system that operates across the entire Alcatel-Lucent Service Router portfolio. With a single operating system across all switch and router product families, operators can be assured of consistent service definitions and reliable operations and management when deploying Ethernet (VLL, VPLS), IP/MPLS (IP VPN), and/or mobile services and applications on an Alcatel-Lucent network.

Advanced, flexible hierarchical-QoS
With today’s increasingly complex service traffic, QoS is a critical element for delivering SLA-based services on a common platform. The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS sets the standard with its advanced and highly flexible hierarchical-QoS implementation, providing hardware support for multi-tiered shaping and policing hierarchies. With service and network level queuing; granular shaping, policing, and marking of service traffic; and per-service guarantee capabilities, the 7450 ESS provides the tools to define and deliver the most stringent SLAs for high-value and differentiated services.

Robust service-aware management and OAM suite
Alcatel-Lucent provides a comprehensive element, network, and service management solution for the 7450 ESS family. Tightly integrated with SR OS OAM tools, the 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) delivers comprehensive operations across network and service management domains, providing visibility into the network for small- and large-scale service deployments. Additional management tools including the 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager (CPAM) and 5670 Reporting and Analysis Manager (RAM) work in conjunction with 5620 SAM to streamline network operations and aid in the provisioning, fault management, and performance management of all advanced networking services. The 7450 ESS also delivers extensive Ethernet OAM standards and capabilities. Support for ITU-T Y.1731 and IEEE 802.1ag, IEEE 802.3ah first mile Ethernet OAM, Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LMI), and Alcatel-Lucent's own Service Assurance Agent, performance, connectivity, and fault monitoring is greatly simplified, and even the most stringent SLAs can be met with confidence.