Alcatel 6350-10, 6350-P10, 6350-48, 6350-P48, 6350-24 USER MANUAL

ALCATELLUCENT
OMNISWITCH 6350

GIGABIT ETHERNET LAN
SWITCH FAMILY

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch® 6350 Stackable family is a series of fixed-configuration Gigabit
Ethernet switches available as 10-, 24- and 48-port, Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) and non-PoE
models to create the exact network for your small business.

The network capabilities of the OmniSwitch 6350 family include advanced security, quality
of service and high availability features for your business-class data, voice and wireless
technologies. These switches are simple to deploy, configure and manage.

OmniSwitch 6350-10

OmniSwitch 6350-P10

OmniSwitch 6350-24

OmniSwitch 6350-P24

OmniSwitch 6350-48

OmniSwitch 6350-P48

All OmniSwitch 6350 switches use the
field-proven Alcatel-Lucent Operating
System (AOS) to deliver highly available,
secure, self-protective, easily managed, and
eco-friendly networks.

The OmniSwitch 6350 family is embedded
with the latest technology innovations and
offers maximum investment protection.

The following type of deployments benefit
from the OmniSwitch 6350 family:

• Small business network solutions

BENEFITS

• Meets all customer configuration needs
and offers excellent investment protection
and flexibility with easy deployment,
operation and maintenance

• Provides outstanding performance when
supporting real-time voice, data and
video applications for converged scalable
networks

• Ensures efficient power management,
reduces operating expenses (OPEX) and
lowers total cost of ownership (TCO)
through low power consumption and
dynamic PoE allocation, which delivers
only the power needed by the attached
device

• Field-upgradeable solution makes the
network highly available and reduces
OPEX

• Comprehensive security features for your
small business network or campus edge at
no additional cost

• Supports cost-effective installation and
deployment with automated switch setup
and configuration

FEATURES

• 10-port PoE and non-PoE models with two
RJ-45/SFP combo port uplinks

• 24-port and 48-port, PoE and non-PoE
models, with four fixed small form-factor
pluggable (SFP) Gigabit uplink interfaces

• 5Gbs stacking available on 24/48 port
models up to 4 units using fixed SFP ports

• Provides up to 48 ports of PoE
connectivity for simplified IP phones,
wireless and IP surveillance deployments
over a single Ethernet cable. All 6350
models are IEEE 802.3af as well as IEEE

802.3at PoE compliant

• Provides native IPv4 and IPv6 support
for routing, Access Control Lists (ACLs)
and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) relay

• Advanced IPv6 threat protection (DHCP
snooping, router advertisement protection
and source address filter protection)
providing protection against a wide range
of address spoofing attacks

• Simplified Voice over IP (VoIP)
deployments using the advanced Auto­Quality of Service (Auto-QoS) feature
that configures the IP telephony devices
into the proper virtual LAN (VLAN) with
the correct QoS parameters to prioritize
voicetraffic

MANAGEMENT

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

• Supported by Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista
2500 Network Management System (NMS)*

®

SECURITY

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

802.1x/MAC)

• Advanced QoS and ACLs for traffic control,
including an embedded denial of service
(DoS) engine to filter out unwanted traffic
attacks

• Protection of management sessions
using radius, Terminal Access Controller

Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+) and
local database authentication as well as
secure management sessions over Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL), Secure Shell (SSH),
and Simple Network Management Protocol
version 3 (SNMPv3)

• Extensive support for user-oriented
features, such as learned port security
(LPS), port mapping, 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 1000Base-X optical
transceivers

• Wire-rate switching and routing
performance

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

CONVERGENCE

• Enhanced VoIP and video performance
with policy-based QoS

• Support for multimedia applications with
wire-rate multicast to help you prepare
for the future

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

OMNISWITCH 6350 10, 24 AND 48PORT MODELS

All 10-port models ship with 2 RJ-45/SFP combo ports that operate at 1 Gb/s and have a 1/2 rack form factor. All 24 and 48 port models
ship with four fixed SFP ports that operate at 1 Gb/s. All PoE and non-PoE models have a full-rack width, power-optimized, fixed­configuration chassis in a 1U form factor.

CHASSIS 10/100/1000

RJ45 PORTS

Non-PoE models

OS6350-10 10 2 0 Internal AC N/A

OS6350-24 24 0 4 Internal AC N/A

OS6350-48 48 0 4 Internal AC N/A

PoE models

OS6350-P10 10 2 0 Internal AC N/A

OS6350-P24 24 0 4 Internal AC N/A

OS6430-P48 48 0 4 Internal AC N/A

Note: Minimum AOS 6.7.1R04 is required for stacking capability

DETAILED PRODUCT FEATURES

Management

Configuration management interfaces

• Intuitive CLI with a 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 NMS
integration

• Remote Telnet management or Secure
Shell access using SSHv2

GIGABIT RJ45/SFP
COMBO

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

• Human-readable ASCII-based configuration
files for offline editing and bulk
configuration

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
destination

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

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

SFP UPLINK/STACKING
PORTS

PRIMARY POWER BACKUP POWER

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

• sFlow v5 and Remote Network Monitoring
(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

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Network configuration

• Remote auto-configuration download

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

• Automatic medium-dependent interface
/ medium-dependent interface crossover
(Auto-MDI/MDI-X) configuring to transmit
and receive signals to support straight­through and crossover cabling

• Bootstrap protocol (BOOTP)/DHCP client
that allows auto-configuring 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 Media Endpoint
Device (MED) extensions for automated
device discovery

• Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol
(MVRP) for IEEE 802.1Q-compliant 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 four units

Resiliency and high availability

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

• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
Protocol: Encompasses IEEE 802.1D
Spanning Tree Protocol (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 Link
Aggregation Groups (LAGs) across modules

• 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

• Hot-swappable transceiver modules
offering uninterruptable service

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

Advanced security

Access control

• Access Guardian framework in the AOS 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

• Group mobility rules and guest VLAN
support

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

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

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

Containment, monitoring and quarantine

• DHCP snooping, DHCP IP spoof protection

• TACACS+ client allowing authentication,
authorization and accounting with a
remote TACACS+ server

• Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol
(ARP) protection and ARP poisoning
detection

• ACLs for filtering out unwanted traffic
including DoS attacks; flow-based filtering
in hardware (L1 to L4)

• Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) blocking:
Automatically shutting down user ports
if an STP BPDU packet is seen to prevent
topology loops

• STP Root Guard: Preventing edge devices
from becoming Spanning Tree Protocol
root nodes

Converged networks

PoE

• PoE models support Alcatel-Lucent
IP phones and WLAN access points,
as well as any IEEE 802.3af or IEEE

802.3at-compliant end devices

• Configurable per-port PoE priority and
max power for power allocation

• Dynamic PoE allocation: Delivering only
the amount of power needed by the
powered devices (PD) up to the total
power budget for most efficient power
consumption

QoS

• Priority queues: Eight hardware-based
queues per port for flexible QoS
management

• Traffic prioritization: Flow-based QoS
with internal and external (remarking)
prioritization

• Bandwidth management: Flow-based
bandwidth management, ingress rate
limiting; egress rate shaping per port

• Queue management: Configurable
scheduling algorithms, including Strict
Priority Queuing (SPQ), Weighted Round
Robin (WRR) and Deficit Round Robin
(DRR)

• Congestion avoidance: Support for End­to-End Head-Of-Line (E2E-HOL) blocking
protection

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

• Three-color marker: Single/dual rate
policing with commit bandwidth (BW),
excess BW and burst size

Layer-2, Layer-3 Routing and
Multicast

Layer-2 switching

• Up to 16,000 MACs

• Up to 4000 VLANs

• Up to 1,000 ingress rules

• Up to 128 egress rules

• Latency: < 4 µs

• Max Frame: 9,216 bytes (jumbo)

IPv4 and IPv6

• Static routing ( IPv4 and IPv6)

• Up to 8 IPv4 and 4 IPv6 interfaces

• Up to 8 IPv4 and 4 IPv6 static routes

• Up to 256 ARP entries

Multicast

• IGMPv1/v2/v3 snooping for optimized
multicast traffic

• Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) v1/v2
snooping

• Up to 1000 multicast groups

• IP Multicast VLAN (IPMVLAN) supported

Network protocols

• DHCP relay including generic User
Datagram Protocol (UDP) relay

• ARP

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) relay

• DHCP relay to forward client requests to a
DHCP server

• Generic UDP relay per VLAN

• DHCP Option 82: Configurable relay agent
information

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