Alcatel 6600 User Manual

OmniSwitch 6600 Family

High Availability Advanced Workgroup Switching

OmniSwitch OS6600-48

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 the following applications:

• Enterprise workgroups/LAN wiring closets

• Edge deployments and branch ofﬁces

• Converged voice and data environments

• Power over Ethernet

• 100BaseFX ﬁber to the desktop

The OmniSwitch 6600 family consists of the OmniSwitch 6600 and OmniSwitch 6602 series switches. The OmniSwitch 6600 provides 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.

OmniSwitch OS6600-24

OmniSwitch OS6600-U24

OmniSwitch OS6600-P24

OmniSwitch OS6602-24

OmniSwitch OS6602-48

• 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)

New to the OS6600 family is the reengineered OS6602 series that is based on the OS6600, but comes in a new 1U design and has 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 a mixed stack virtual chassis.

• OmniSwitch 6602-24 - 24 10/100 RJ45

• OmniSwitch 6602-48 - 24 10/100 RJ45

The Alcatel enterprise 10/100 LAN offering also includes the value based 10/100 L2+ stackable switches OmniStack 6124 and 6148.

Complementing the OS6600 and OS6100 10/100 ﬁxed conﬁguration switches, the OmniStack 6300 series is the ﬁrst Alcatel ﬁxed conﬁguration Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 to the desktop series of switches.

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Alcatel OmniSwitch 6600 Family

Alcatel’s ﬁxed conﬁguration switches are part of the Alcatel enterprise LAN offering that includes the larger capacity, modular-based OmniSwitch 7700, 7800, and 8800 series of core switches. Together this family offers a complete edge-to-core solution with high availability, intelligent performance, and enhanced security in an easy to manage, ﬂexible, and scalable package.

Alcatel understands the need to control service costs and provides a limited lifetime warranty on all OmniSwitch 6600 family switches.

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.

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• OneTouch QoS for simplified networkwide configuration of QoS policies

• Resource manager for backup/restore switch software and configuration

• Locator service to locate end devices for troubleshooting and virus containment

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.

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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.

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