Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 7000 series product family (OS7700 and OS7800 Modular Ethernet Chassis Systems)
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The OmniSwitch 7000 series product family consists of two switching products, the OmniSwitch 7700 and 7800. The OmniSwitch 7700 is a 10 slot, modular chassis that supports an aggregate switch port capacity of 192 full duplex Gigabit Ethernet. The OmniSwitch 7800 is an 18 slot, high capacity modular chassis that supports an aggregate switch port capacity of 384 full duplex Gigabit Ethernet.
These platforms are built from the ground up for IP Communications and converged environments, featuring advanced QoS capabilities and in-line power distribution for IP phones. They are designed for continuous operation, with two center slots dedicated to chassis management modules (CMM), with the OmniSwitch 7700 providing a CMM fabric capacity of 64 Gbps, and the OmniSwitch 7800 providing a CMM fabric capacity of 128 Gbps. They are available in redundant configurations with an extensive array of Ethernet interfaces and port densities.
Benefits
The OmniSwitch 7800 and 7700 offer many industry-leading capabilities such as:
- Carrier class availability (Smart Continuous Switching, Software Configuration Recovery / Image Rollback capability
- Multi-layer security ("Security by Default", Partition Management)
- Dynamic mobility
- Wire-speed intelligent switching/routing (Integrated, wire-speed server load balancing, Wire-speed ACLs, and more...)
Features
The OmniSwitch 7000 series offers an extensive set of features, making them ideal for a variety of network environments such as:
- Enterprise core and edge applications
- LAN aggregation/distribution
- IP telephony/LAN wiring closets
- Gigabit Ethernet MANs
These features include:
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet non-blocking, full duplex
- In-line power for IP phones and end devices
- Industry's best availability with smart continuous switching
- Multi-layer security (ACLs, authenticated services, DoS protection, and SSL)
- Authenticated VLANs and authentication services with proprietary extensions and 802.1x standard support
- Enhanced ACLs
- NAT and PAT
- Distributed intelligence
- Everything wire-speed
- Application-aware (L2/L3/L4 QoS classification)
- Embedded wire-speed server load balancing
- IP/IPX routing (RIP v1/v2, OSPF, BGP-4, DVMRP, PIM- SM, RIP/SAP)
- IP Multicast Switching (multicast isolation within VLANs)
- IPv6 support
- Dynamic mobility with extensive VLAN support
OmniSwitch 7700 and 7800
The OmniSwitch 7000 series product family consists of two switching products: the OmniSwitch 7700 and 7800. The OmniSwitch 7700 is a 10 slot, modular chassis that supports an aggregate switch port capacity of 192 full duplex Gigabit Ethernet. The OmniSwitch 7800 is an 18 slot, high capacity modular chassis that supports an aggregate switch port capacity of 384 full duplex Gigabit Ethernet.
These platforms are built from the ground up for IP Communications and converged environments, featuring advanced QoS capabilities, and in-line power distribution for IP phones. They are designed for continuous operation, with two center slots dedicated to chassis management modules (CMM), with the OmniSwitch 7700 providing a CMM fabric capacity of 64 Gbps, and the OmniSwitch 7800 providing a CMM fabric capacity of 128 Gbps. They are available in redundant configurations with an extensive array of Ethernet interfaces and port densities.
Key functionality includes:
- Smart continuous switching
- Multi-layer security
- Dynamic mobility
- Wire-speed intelligent switching/routing
- Wire-speed server load balancing
- In-line power distribution
Industry's Highest Availability
Today’s successful business needs to have a network that can deliver continuous operation and provide high availability to support the demands of IP Communications and mission-critical applications. High availability ensures that users have access to resources and services at all times. To ensure availability, the OmniSwitch 7000s have been designed with a distributed architecture enabling industry-best features, including full redundancy and resiliency.
A unique feature of the OmniSwitch 7000 series is smart continuous switching, which provides continuous operation in the event of a failure. With smart continuous switching, all source learning, Spanning Tree functions, and established routes are distributed across the network interface modules instead of being centralized in a core-processing engine. In the event of a management module failure, the system automatically switches over to the hot standby management module with no loss of connections or fabric capacity. Existing L2/L3 traffic, including voice conversations, will continue seamlessly without interruption. Plus, Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniSwitch 7000s are capable of creating new connections during this failover – an industry first.
Network resiliency is a critical part of network availability and the OmniSwitch 7000s provide extensive support including advanced routing redundancy protocols, load sharing, and mechanisms for fast reconfiguration of links between switches, servers, and other network devices. The OmniSwitch 7000s provide fully redundant and resilient system components to ensure continuous operation. This includes:
- Redundant chassis subsystems
- Hot swappable modules
- Load-sharing components
- "Hitless loading" of optional software, such as advanced routing, without rebooting
- Downloadable bootstrap
- Image rollback to automatically re-load previous configurations and software versions
Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniSwitch 7000s are leading the industry, delivering the highest availability and functionality – all at an enterprise price.
Multi-layer Security
Enterprises are becoming borderless as they open their networks to e-business and external users. This requires the network to provide easy user access yet have extensive security that can be managed across a global enterprise. The OmniSwitch 7000 series provides multi-layer security with a vast arsenal of features that can be implemented at the edge, the core, and throughout the network. These include:
- User authentication
- VLANs
- Access control lists (ACLs)
- Authenticated switch access
- Encryption
- NAT/PAT
- Denial of service protection
Multi-layer security enables the building of sophisticated hardware and software-based solutions that can be integrated with policy-based management and other technologies such as smart cards, PKI, and biometrics for enhanced security implementations. For secure management there are many features integrated into the architecture including authenticated user access, SNMPv3 and SSL for encrypted sessions, and partitioned management for multi-tiered access and granular network administration.
Distributed Intelligence
Distributed intelligence ensures that users and applications get the priority and performance they need with ease-of-use management that extends across the enterprise. The OmniSwitch 7000 series features state-of-the-art ASIC-based technology for intelligent, wire-speed everything including switching, routing, ACLs, load balancing, and QoS. The switches provide application-aware switching for layers 2, 3, and 4 and the most advanced classification, prioritization, and queuing schemes. They also support industry classification standards including 802.1Q/p, TOS, and DiffServ, and are enhanced with complementary features such as extensive QoS mappings, and re-tagging of prioritization.
The OmniSwitch 7000s are well adapted to server connectivity offering embedded server load balancing (no specialized hardware or software is required) and operates at wire-speed. This flexibility makes them a perfect fit in small or medium core applications where server connectivity and backbone functions are collapsed.
Further Details
Further details and more technical specifications can be found by clicking on the links to product brochures and datasheets at the head of the page.
