Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6600 10/100 L2+/L3 Stackable Ethernet Switches
OmniSwitch 6600 family switches are advanced 10/100 based stackable layer 3 workgroup switches that provide wire rate L2+ switching, L3 routing and advanced services with high availability for IP communications and mission-critical environments.
A compact form factor, a rich set of features and a high availability design makes the OS6600 a great choice for enterprise workgroups/LAN wiring closets, edge deployments and branch offices, converged voice and data environments, PoE (Power over Ethernet) applications, and 100Base-FX fiber to the desktop needs.
OmniSwitch 6600 (6600-24 and 6600-48) switches provide 24/48 10/100 ports in a 1.5U form factor with two expansion slots for optional two port Gigabit stacking modules and/or two port fiber or copper Gigabit uplinks and an internal slot on the back of the chassis for pluggable backup power supply. PoE and fiber versions are also available.
- OmniSwitch 6600-24 - 24 10/100 RJ45 ports
- OmniSwitch 6600-48 - 48 10/100 RJ45 ports
- OmniSwitch 6600-U24 - 24 SFP based 100BaseFX ports that accept industry standard 100BaseFX optics.
- OmniSwitch 6600-P24 - 24 10/100 RJ45 ports with standards-based PoE (uses external backup power supply)
The reengineered OmniSwitch 6602 series (6602-24 and 6602-48) are based on the OS6600, but come in a new 1U design and have a fixed configuration that includes two ports of SFP (small form plugware) for Gigabit connectivity and two ports for stacking built in. The OS6602 is completely interoperable with the OS6600, including in a mixed stack virtual chassis.
- OmniSwitch 6602-24 - 24 10/100 RJ45
- OmniSwitch 6602-48 - 24 10/100 RJ45
Virtual Chassis
What is a virtual chassis? Essentially, a virtual chassis takes the best attributes of a modular chassis switch and applies them to lower cost fixed configuration switches, allowing the enterprise to manage and scale their network effectively and affordably. With the addition of the OS6602 a virtual chassis can consist of up to eight switches of either the OS6602, the OS6600 or a mix of both.
The virtual chassis provides:
- single IP address management
- easy synchronization of switch software and configurations across all switches within a single stack
- dedicated fault tolerant backplane using hardware stacking
- link aggregation across chassis
- N:1 management backup because each switch is fully capable of providing management for the virtual chassis
When a group of OS6600/OS6602 switches are configured in a virtual chassis, an automatic election takes place to elect the primary and secondary management entity. If the primary or secondary switch fail, recurrent automatic elections take place for their replacement.
Another great benefit of the virtual chassis is that it can be very quickly and simply scaled up, torn down or reconfigured to suit the needs of the enterprise.
High Availability
The OS6602/OS6600 support cost effective 1:1 backup power supplies, fault tolerant loop stacking, and virtual chassis link aggregation preventing single points of failure. Any switch within a virtual chassis that provides management functionality and automatic election of primary and secondary managers provides N:1 management redundancy.
Quality of service in the network addresses availability by ensuring mission critical applications, such as IP telephony and other delay sensitive applications, receive the expedited forwarding they require to be
available and effective. The OS6600 family supports per port queuing, flow-based QoS rules and bandwidth management to help guarantee mission applications are available.
Secure Networking
Security is a primary focus of every CIO. To address this concern, the OS6600 family provides features that support a multi-layered approach to network security. Access to the network is controlled by either filtering out unwanted traffic, forcing authentication of the user, or allowing only pre-authorized devices access. Switch administration controls include support for encrypted management communication and authentication of the administrator. Further switch management granularity can be configured so that administrators only have access to features under their responsibility or expertise.
The OS6600 family also supports emerging technologies that identify and quarantine devices that do not meet administrator defined requirements. In the quarantined environment the end device has access to network resources that remediate the device and return it to a state where network access can then be granted.
Simplified Management
It’s very common today to find small IT departments tasked with managing large enterprise networks. Typically, the IT department is staffed with people of varying expertise who don’t have the luxury of time or budget for extensive training. To address this situation, large networks need to be easy to install, manage, and troubleshoot. Alcatel tackles this situation by providing OmniVista, a powerful network management platform for its AOS based OmniSwitch family.
When an enterprise network uses an all AOS-based solution, training, installation, configuration and troubleshooting is minimized. For that reason, Alcatel designed the OS6600 family to have an AOS-based CLI, just like the larger modular-based OmniSwitch.
Additionally, the Web-based manager has the same look and feel across the AOS line of switches and provides a point and click method with online help to ease configuration of new features.
