Alcatel OS6860-P24, OS6860E-48 USER MANUAL

Data Sheet

Alcatel-Lucent
OmniSwitch 6860

Stackable LAN switches

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6860 Stackable LAN Switches (SLS) are compact, high-density
Gigabit Ethernet (GigE), Multigigabit and 10 GigE platforms designed for the most demanding
converged networks.

OmniSwitch 6860 are high performance
and high availability switches that offer
enhanced quality of service (QoS), user
authentication, deep packet inspection
(DPI) and comprehensive security features
to secure the network edge. The OS6860
Switch family enables seamless mobility
for users and devices with a high degree
of integration between the wired and
wireless LAN. The OS6860E family

OS6860-P24 OS6860E-U28 OS6860E-48

FEATURES BENEFITS

• High-density Gigabit, Multi-Gigabit (2.5 Gig) and 10 Gigabit
interface models

• Virtual Chassis technology to create a single chassis-like entity
with up to 32, 10 Gigabit uplinks and 384 Gigabit ports

• Internal, hot-swappable power supplies, front-to-back cooling
providing the lowest power consumption in its class

• Advanced functions integral of the AOS: quality of service
(QoS), access control lists (ACLs), Layer-2/Layer-3 switching,
Virtual LAN (VLAN) stacking and IPv6

• IEEE 802.3af and 802.3at compliant PoE of 30 W per port on
all ports

• Support of high PoE (up to 75 W per port) on some ports

OS6860E-P24Z8

includes support for next generation
wireless LAN standards, 802.11ac wave 2,
using the existing cabling infrastructure.
The enhanced models of the OmniSwitch
6860 family also supports emerging
services such as application fingerprinting
for network analytics and up to 75 watts
of Power over Ethernet (PoE) per port,
making it ready to meet the evolving
business needs of enterprise networks.

• With the variety of interfaces and models, the OmniSwitch 6860
family meets any customer configuration need and offers excellent
investment protection and flexibility

• Up to eight switches in an OmniSwitch 6860 Virtual Chassis,
increases system redundancy, resiliency and high availability, while
simplifying deployment, operations and management of the network

• Ensures efficient power management, thereby reducing operating
expenses and lowering total cost of ownership.

• With its advanced PoE capabilities and high density of PoE ports,
the OmniSwitch 6860 is ideal for converged campus deployments by
offering deployment flexibility, simplifying the wiring, and reducing
the time to deploy edge devices such as VoIP phones, surveillance
cameras, 802.11ac access points, and emerging devices that require
higher than 30 W, such as a thin virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
client, small cells, or even a small network switch.

These versatile LAN switches can
be positioned:

• At the edge of mid- to large-sized
converged enterprise networks

• At the aggregation layer

• In a small enterprise network core

• In the data center for GigE server
connectivity and SDN applications

FEATURES BENEFITS

• Application Monitoring and Enforcement • Using the embedded DPI technology allows OS6860 Application
monitoring to discover of up to 2000 business or personal
applications flowing through the network and apply QoS policy
enforcement and prioritization for the discovered applications.
This type of visibility can be used to optimize the performance
of the network as well as apply adequate control.

Advanced Unified Access features for converged campus network
solutions in application fluent network

• Integrated Policy with dynamic User Network Profiles

• Extensive security features for network access control (NAC),

policy enforcement and attack containment

• SIP Fluency to provision and monitor QoS treatment of SIP flows

• Airgroup™ Network Services for Bonjour and DLNA speaking

devices

• Unified access and application fluent networks provide simplified
network architecture with automated controls and enhanced
security for both wired and wireless users. Offers enhanced
management and security for reduced operational complexity
costs

• User network profiles add intelligence to the network to
automatically adapt as users move around the corporation,
without compromising the security

• With its advanced capabilities, the OmniSwitch 6860 shows
outstanding performance when supporting real-time voice, data
and video applications

• Improved user experience with the integration of services that
enable employees to access the same applications and service,
and have consistent experience across wired and wireless.

Enables deployment of comprehensive and secure BYOD services
in enterprise networks*:

• Advanced guest management capabilities

• Device on-boarding and automated IEEE 802.1x provisioning

• Device posture/health check and fingerprinting

• Application management

• The OmniSwitch 6860 offers flexible deployment options and
enables the network for BYOD deployments and zero-touch guest
management

• Supports dynamic change of authentication (CoA) and enforces
traffic remediation or restriction for non-compliant devices

• Provides control and increased security over corporate data/
applications for the mixed personal and corporate environment
for improved visibility and control for IT.

The OmniSwitch 6860 is SDN ready.

• Supporting programmable Alcatel-Lucent Operating System (AOS)
RESTful APIs, OpenFlow and OpenStack allow the creation of
specialized services

• Opens the door for fast deployment of new network services that
meet employees’ needs to continuously adopt new applications
that support the business

• The support of SDN reassures customers that their investment is
ready for the future and enables interoperability with third-party
solutions.

• Shortest path bridging (SPB-M) for bridging and routed services • Offers a solution that fits the enterprise needs and delivers agile
value-added services, while simplifying the transformation of
the campus networks to meet user needs: allows for optimal link
usage, fast convergence, and ease of configuration in large L2
topologies

• Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) and dynamic Virtual

Network Profiles (VNP)

• Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)

• Enterprise-wide cost reduction through hardware consolidation
to achieve network segmentation and security without additional
hardware installation.

* requires Aruba ClearPass

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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6860
models

The OmniSwitch 6860 family offers
customers an extensive selection of
fixed-configuration switches with up to
60/75 watts of PoE per port and power
supply options that accommodate the
most demanding requirements. The models
are in a 1RU form factor and are 19-inch

rack-mountable. They all have four built-in
10 Gigabit SFP+ ports that support 10
Gigabits and 1000-X, two 20 Gigabit QSFP+
ports used as Virtual Chassis connections,
USB ports and console ports.

There are four basic models in the
OmniSwitch 6860 family and six enhanced
models. All of the OmniSwitch 6860 PoE

models support PoE+, up to 30 watts
of PoE on all ports; however only the
enhanced models in the family support up to
60/75 watts of PoE. The enhanced models
also have an Ethernet management port
(EMP) port and a built-in co-processor that
can be used for running Enhanced network
services such as application fingerprinting
and others in the future.

20G QSFP+
VIRTUAL
CHASSIS
PORTS DESCRIPTION

Basic Models

GIGABIT
PORTS

1G/10G
SFP+
PORTS

2.5G
PORTS

OS6860-24 24 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 24 10/100/1000

Base-T ports, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and two 20G Virtual Chassis
link ports

OS6860-P24 24 PoE 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 24 10/100/1000

Base-T PoE ports, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and two 20G Virtual
Chassis link ports

OS6860-48 48 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 48 10/100/1000

Base-T ports, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and two 20G Virtual Chassis
link ports

OS6860-P48 48 PoE 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 48 10/100/1000

Base-T PoE ports, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and two 20G Virtual
Chassis link ports

Enhanced Models

OS6860E-24 24 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 24 10/100/1000

Base-T ports, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and two 20G virtual Chassis
link ports. Includes a built-in co-processor for Enhanced network services

OS6860E-P24 24 PoE 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 24 10/100/1000

Base-T PoE+ ports, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and two 20G Virtual
Chassis link ports. Includes a built-in co-processor for Enhanced network
services

OS6860E-P24Z8 16 PoE 4 8 HPoE 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 16 10/100/1000

Base-T PoE+ ports, eight 2.5G 802.3bz HPoE(75W) ports, four fixed SFP+
(1G/10G) ports and two 20G Virtual Chassis link ports. Includes a built-in
co-processor for Enhanced network services

OS6860E-48 48 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 48 10/100/1000

Base-T ports, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and two 20G Virtual Chassis
link ports. Includes a built-in co-processor for Enhanced network services

OS6860E-P48 48 PoE 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 48 10/100/1000

Base-T PoE ports, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and two 20G Virtual
Chassis link ports. Includes a built-in co-processor for Enhanced network
services

OS6860E-U28 28 SFP 4 – 2 Fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor with 28 ports supporting

1000Base-X and 100Base-FX, four fixed SFP+ (1G/10G) ports and
two 20G Virtual Chassis link ports. Includes a built-in co-processor for
Enhanced network services

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Technical specifications

OmniSwitch 6860 basic models

PRODUCT MATRIX OS6860-24 OS6860-48 OS6860-P24 OS6860-P48

Gigabit port count 24 48 24 (PoE) 48 (PoE)

1G/10G SFP+ 4 4 4 4

20G QSFP+ VFL ports 2 2 2 2

USB port 1 1 1 1

Out-of-band EMP port 0 0 0 0

RS-232 port 1 1 1 1

Console port 1 1 1 1

Primary slide-in PSU slot 1 1 1 1

Backup slide-in PSU slot 1 1 1 1

Fans 0 0 1 1

File system flash 2 GB 2 GB 2 GB 2 GB

RAM 2 GB 2 GB 2 GB 2 GB

Max raw fabric capacity 224 Gb/s 264 Gb/s 224 Gb/s 264 Gb/s

Throughput (at 64-byte
packet)

Power consumption (idle)** 35.6 W 41.7 W 61.9 W 70.8 W

Power consumption
(full load)**

Heat dissipation** 121.5 BTU/h 142.3 BTU/h 211.2 BTU/h 241.6 BTU/h

MTBF with one
AC power supply

Acoustic noise (dB) at 25C 45.8 45.8 42 43.5

Height 4.4 cm (1.73 in) 4.4 cm (1.73 in) 4.4 cm (1.73 in) 4.4 cm (1.73 in)

Width 44 cm (17.33 in) 44 cm (17.33 in) 44 cm (17.33 in) 44 cm (17.33 in)

Depth 35 cm (13.78 in) 35 cm (13.78 in) 35 cm (13.78 in) 35 cm (13.78 in)

Weight (chassis and fan) 4.45 kg (9.8 lb) 4.67 kg (10.3 lb) 4.58 kg (10.1 lb) 4.90 kg (10.8 lb)

Weight (fully populated)*** 5.17 kg (11.4 lb) 5.40 kg (11.9 lb) 6.03 kg (13.3 lb) 6.35 kg (14.0 lb)

Altitude 13,000 ft 13,000 ft 13,000 ft 13,000 ft

Operating temperature 0°C to 45°C

Storage temperature -40°C to 85°C

Humidity (operating) 5% to 95%

Humidity (storage) 5% to 95%

Power supplies OS6860-BP

IEEE 802.3at PoE ports 0 0 24 48

60 W of PoE ports 0 0 0 0

Air flow Front to back Front to back Front to back Front to back

154.9 Mpps 190.6 Mpps 154.9 Mpps 190.6 Mpps

45.6 W 57.2 W 477 W 900 W

408,614 h 385,181 h 133,391 h 127,594 h

(32°F to 113°F)

(-40°F to 185°F)

non-condensing

non-condensing

OS6860-BP-D

0°C to 45°C
(32°F to 113°F)

-40°C to 85°C
(-40°F to 185°F)

5% to 95%
non-condensing

5% to 95%
non-condensing

OS6860-BP
OS6860-BP-D

0°C to 45°C
(32°F to 113°F)

-40°C to 85°C
(-40°F to 185°F)

5% to 95%
non-condensing

5% to 95%
non-condensing

0°C to 45°C
(32°F to 113°F)

-40°C to 85°C
(-40°F to 185°F)

5% to 95%
non-condensing

5% to 95%
non-condensing

OS6860-BPPH OS6860-BPPX

** Power consumption measured at the 120 V AC outlet. The full L2 traffic load measurement for the 24- and P24Z8/48-port PoE models was done with the 600-W and 920-W

PSU respectively. Heat dissipation: 1 watt ≈ 3.41214 BTU/h

*** Fully populated chassis includes two power supplies, mounting brackets and no transceivers

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