Alcatel 6250-24, 6250-P24, 6250-24M, 6250-24MD, 6250-8M USER MANUAL

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

OmniSwitch 6250-24/P24/24M/24MD

OmniSwitch 6250-8M

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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