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ALCATELLUCENT OMNISWITCH 6250

STACKABLE FAST ETHERNET SWITCH

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch® 6250 is a stackable layer-2+ Fast Ethernet LAN value switch family for both the enterprise and Ethernet access segments. The enterprise models address the small and mid-sized enterprise edge and branch ofﬁce environments, while the metro models address the residential and business Ethernet access supplied by service providers.

With an optimized design for ﬂexibility and scalability as well as low power consumption, the OmniSwitch 6250 runs the ﬁeld-proven Alcatel-Lucent Operating System (AOS), providing an outstanding edge solution for highly available, self-protective, easily managed and eco-friendlynetworks.

Solutions beneﬁting from the OmniSwitch 6250 family of switches are:

• Edge of small to mid-sized networks

• Branch ofﬁce enterprise workgroups

• Residential or metro Ethernet triple-play applications

BENEFITS

• Provides simpliﬁed selection with only two enterprise models: Power-overEthernet (PoE) and non-PoE

• Reduces sparing and inventory costs

• Allows any combination of PoE and

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non-PoE, up to 192 ports

• Meets the customers’ conﬁguration needs and offers excellent investment protection and ﬂexibility, as well as easy deployment, operation and maintenance

• Small form factor and low noise output make the OmniSwitch 6250 ideal for collocation environments. The low power consumption reduces the operating expenses and cooling costs, which leads to lower operating expenditures (OPEX) and faster return on investment (ROI).

• Leads the industry in price/featureperformance ratio and offers customers a cost-efﬁcient network technology upgrade, without needing to move to a higherpriced, layer-2+ gigabit solution

• Outstanding list of features and performance for supporting scalable, realtime voice, data and video applications for converged networks

• Supports cost-effective installation and deployment with automated switch setup and conﬁguration, as well as end-to-end virtual LAN (VLAN) provisioning

• A ﬁeld-upgradeable solution that makes the network highly available and reducesOPEX

• Fully secures the network at the edge at no additional cost

• The lifetime warranty eliminates service program costs and ongoing service renewals, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) and allowing customers to reach ROI targets more quickly

• Simpliﬁes metro Ethernet network OAM for service providers

FEATURES

• Offers innovative half-rack-wide models for a great variety of switch combinationdeployments

• Highly efﬁcient and optimized in their form factor, power consumption and acoustic output

• A feature-rich, cost-effective, 10/100 stackable switch built on the latest ASICtechnologies

• Scalability from 24 to 192 Fast Ethernet and 16- gigabit uplink ports

• The Alcatel-Lucent virtual chassis design provides resiliency with integrated 5 G HDMI performance

• Optional metro services feature license for service provider deployments

• Support for IEEE 802.3af as well as IEEE

802.3at-compliant PoE

• AC or DC redundant power supplies

• Limited Lifetime Warranty Software and Hardware Support included

MANAGEMENT

• AOS ﬁeld-proven software with management through web interface (WebView), command line interface (CLI), and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

• Supporting programmable AOS OpenFlow for the creation of specialized services.

• Ethernet operations, administration and management (OA&M) support for service conﬁguration and monitoring

• Support by Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista® 2500 Network Management System (NMS)

• Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) applications for serviceproviders

SECURITY

• Flexible device and user authentication with Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian (IEEE

802.1x/MAC/captive portal) with Host Integrity Check (HIC) enforcement

• Enables deployment of comprehensive and secure BYoD services in enterprise networks such as guest management, device on-boarding, device posturing, application management and dynamic change of authentication (CoA).

• Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) and Access Control Lists (ACLs) for trafﬁc control, including an embedded Denial of Service (DoS) engine to ﬁlter out unwanted trafﬁc attacks

• Extensive support of user-oriented features such as learned port security (LPS), port mapping, Dynamic Host Conﬁguration Protocol (DHCP) binding tables and User Network Proﬁle (UNP)

PERFORMANCE ANDREDUNDANCY

• Advanced layer-2+ features with basic layer-3 routing for both IPv4 and IPv6

• Triple- speed (10/100/1000) user interfaces and ﬁber interfaces (SFPs) supporting 100Base X or 1000Base-X optical transceivers

• Wire-rate switching and routingperformance

• High availability with virtual chassis concept, redundant stacking links, primary/secondary unit failover, hot-swappable power options and conﬁguration rollback

CONVERGENCE

• Enhanced Voice over IP (VoIP) and video performance with policy-based QoS

• Support for multimedia applications with wire-rate multicast

• Airgroup™ Network Services for Bonjour®- speaking devices provides consistent experience over wireless and wirednetworks

• IEEE 802.3at PoE+ support for IP phones, wireless LAN (WLAN) access points and video cameras

AVAILABLE OMNISWITCH 6250 MODELS

24-port models

CHASSIS 10/100

RJ45 PORTS

GIGABIT COMBO PORTS

HDMI STACKING 2.5 GB/S

PRIMARY POWER BACKUP POWER

Non-PoE models

OS6250-24 24 2 2 Internal AC External AC brick supply

Non-PoE models

OS6250-P24 24 2 2 225 W, external AC supply 225 W, external AC supply

• The combo ports are conﬁgurable to 10/100/1000Base-T or may use 100/1000Base-X based transceivers.

AVAILABLE OMNISWITCH 6250 METRO MODELS

8- and 24-port models

CHASSIS 10/100

RJ45 PORTS

GIGABIT COMBO PORTS

DAC STACKING 2.5 GB/S

PRIMARY POWER

BACKUP POWER

OS6250-8M 8 2 2 Internal AC supply N/A

OS6250-24M 24 2 2 Internal AC supply External DC brick supply

OS6250-24MD 24 2 2 Internal DC supply External DC brick supply

The OmniSwitch 6250 metro models support additional metro software features outlined later in this document.

• The combo ports are conﬁgurable to 10/100/1000Base-T or may use 100/1000Base-X based transceivers.

• The SFP ports of the “M” model support only gigabit transceivers or OmniSwitch 6250 small form factor pluggable (SFP) direct stacking cable.

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DETAILED PRODUCT FEATURES

Simpliﬁed management

Conﬁguration management interfaces

• Intuitive command line interface (CLI) with familiar interface, reducing training costs

• Easy-to-use, point-and-click web-based element manager (WebView) with built-in help for easy conﬁguration

• Integration with Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista® 2500 for network management

• Full conﬁguration and reporting using SNMPv1/2/3 across all OmniSwitch families to facilitate third-party network management system (NMS) integration

• Remote Telnet management or Secure Shell access using SSHv2

• File upload using USB, TFTP, FTP, SFTP, or SCP for faster conﬁguration

• Human-readable ASCII-based conﬁguration ﬁles for off-line editing and bulkconﬁguration

• Managed by Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager

Monitoring and troubleshooting

• Local (on the ﬂash) and remote server logging: Syslog and command log

• Port-based mirroring for troubleshooting and lawful interception supports four sessions with multiple sources-to-onedestinations

• Policy-based mirroring that allows selecting the type of trafﬁc to mirror by using QoS policies

• Remote port mirroring that facilitates passing mirrored trafﬁc through the network to a remotely connected device

• Port monitoring feature that allows capturing Ethernet packets to a ﬁle, or to an on-screen display to assist introubleshooting

• sFlow v5 and RMON for advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities for statistics, history, alarms and events

• IP tools: Ping and trace route

• Digital Diagnostic Monitoring (DDM): Real-time diagnostics of ﬁber connections for early detection of optical signaldeterioration

• Time Domain Reﬂectometry (TDR) for locating breaks or other discontinuity in copper cables

Network conﬁguration

• Remote auto-conﬁguration download

• Auto-negotiating 10/100/1000 ports automatically conﬁgure port speed and duplex setting

• Auto MDI/MDIX conﬁgureing transmit and receive signals to support straight-through and crossover cabling

• BOOTP/DHCP client that allows autoconﬁguring switch IP information for simpliﬁed deployment

• DHCP relay for forwarding client requests to a DHCP server

• Alcatel-Lucent Mapping Adjacency Protocol (AMAP) for building topologymaps

• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) with MED extensions for automated device discovery

• Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) for IEEE 802.1Q-compliant virtual LAN (VLAN) pruning and dynamic VLANcreation

• Auto QoS for switch management trafﬁc and trafﬁc from Alcatel-Lucent IP phones

• Network Time Protocol (NTP) for networkwide time synchronization

• Stackable to eight units

Resiliency and high availability

• Ring Rapid Spanning Tree (RRSTP) optimized for ring topology to provide less than 100 ms convergence time

• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol: Encompasses IEEE 802.1D STP and IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning TreeProtocol

• Per-VLAN spanning tree (PVST) and 1x1 STP mode

• Support for IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and static LAG groups across modules

• Dual-home link (DHL) support for subsecond link protection without STP

• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) providing highly available routedenvironments

• Broadcast and multicast storm control to avoid degradation in overall systemperformance

• Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD) for detecting and disabling unidirectional links on ﬁber optic interfaces

• Layer-2 port loopback detection for preventing customer loops on Ethernet access ports

• Redundant and hot-swappable power supplies, transceiver modules offering uninterruptable service

• Dual-image and dual-conﬁguration ﬁle storage provide backup

Advanced security

Access control

• AOS Access Guardian framework for comprehensive user-policy-based network access control (NAC)

• Auto-sensing IEEE 802.1X multi-client, multi-VLAN MAC-based authentication for non-802.1X hosts

• Web-based authentication (Captive Portal): A customizable web portal residing on the switch that can be used for authenticating supplicants as well as non-supplicants

• Group mobility rules and “guest” VLANsupport

• Host integrity check (HIC) agent on each switch makes it an HIC enforcer and facilitates endpoint device control for company policy compliance. Support for quarantine and remediation as required.

• Support for dynamic change of authentication (CoA) and enforcing trafﬁc remediation or restriction for noncompliant devices

• User network proﬁle (UNP): Simplify NAC management and control by dynamically providing predeﬁned policy conﬁguration to authenticated clients (VLAN, ACL, BW,HIC)

• SSH for secure CLI session with public key infrastructure (PKI) support

• Centralized Remote Access Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) and LDAP userauthentication

• Private VLAN feature for user trafﬁcsegregation

Containment, monitoring and quarantine

• DHCP snooping, DHCP IP spoof protection

• Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus (TACACS+) client allowing authentication, authorization and accounting with a remote TACACS+ server

• Dynamic ARP protection and ARP poisoning detection

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