Product Brief
Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600
Ethernet has emerged as the infrastructure of choice for new service provider
deployments as well as for Layer 2 enterprise-wide interconnect. Applications —
such as Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks
(VPNs) — and IP-based services —
such as the triple play of voice, video
and Internet access — are driving the
often-cited growth in metro and wide
area networks today. Ethernet leverages
the decades-long investment in LANbased networking to offer a packet
switching technology that is the most
cost-effective available today. For enterprises that want to cost-effectively extend
LANs at native rates into the MAN and
WAN, Ethernet is the answer. For carriers
and service providers looking for a fast,
reliable and profitable way to eliminate
bandwidth bottlenecks in the MAN,
Ethernet is the answer.
Metro Ethernet enables point-to-point,
point-to-multipoint and any-to-any
connection topologies that meet differing
service and application requirements.
Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 has been a workhorse for enterprises and a reliable profit-maker for
service providers. It is leading the way in
delivering scalable, feature-rich, Ethernetbased VPNs and next-generation
Ethernet MAN infrastructure.
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 delivers 100-Megabit, 1- and 10Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with carrierclass performance, availability and
Quality of Service (QoS). Its flexibility,
scalability and support for a wide variety
of interfaces make it the natural fit for
business-critical applications and services.
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 delivers important benefits to
service providers seeking to increase
their Ethernet-based network footprint
and to enterprises whose scale of operations leads to carrier-class solutions
(Table 1).
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What makes the Metro
Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 exceptional?
In the service provider environment, the
principle challenge today is that of costeffectively delivering multiple services to
residential and business end-users as
well as wholesale services like wireless
backhaul, while leveraging a common,
converged infrastructure. Nortel has
made this possible with the Metro
Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. Nortel’s
leading-edge Ethernet User-NetworkInterface (UNI) offers the following
features to support enterprise VPN and
triple play revenue-generating services:
• Service demarcation and security
• Scalability and efficiency
• Reliability
• Service turn-up and management
• Quality of Service
• Interoperability
With the capability to deliver hundreds
of millions of packets per second (Mpps)
performance, the Metro Ethernet
Routing Switch 8600 provides these
attributes along with carrier-class
resiliency on a production-tested and
proven solution.
Service demarcation
and security
Ethernet traffic may be presented to the
operator network using a variety of
Ethernet techniques such as IEEE 802.1Q
and IEEE 802.1ad (Provider Bridge or
Q-in-Q), which allow for efficient
scaling of local and access area networks.
As traffic ingresses the operator network,
customer and service level delineation is
achieved with support for IEEE 802.1ah
(Provider Backbone Bridge or MAC-inMAC) encapsulation, which creates a
secure, scalable hierarchy of addressing
that avoids several pitfalls of traditional
LAN-based approaches. The end-user
packet is completely encapsulated by a
service provider MAC header and
assigned a service identifier that is
globally unique to that service.
The Ethernet UNI neither uses nor
processes Layer 3 address information
from the end-user’s network. Network
address translation is unnecessary,
because the entire end-customer packet
is encapsulated so that the customer’s
Layer 3 header is kept intact across the
provider network. The use of 802.1ah
encapsulation prevents the so-called
‘MAC-explosion’ problem that could
lead to security issues brought about by
flooding of customer packets across the
provider network. The encapsulation
also makes the provider infrastructure
transparent to the customer’s Ethernet
control protocol packets, allowing for
efficient interconnection of customer
Layer 2 (bridged) or Layer 3 (routed)
networks. This approach provides a
simple option to tunnel enterprise control
frames without interference from the
operator (no VLAN or IP addressing
coordination is required between the
end user and operator).
Unknown unicast, multicast and broadcast traffic are constrained within their
respective VPNs, effectively limiting
unnecessary broadcasting and the associated inefficient use of bandwidth. In
addition, the unknown unicast, multicast and broadcast traffic rates within a
VPN can be constrained below set levels
as desired by the operator.
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 employs state-of-the-art network
processor technology to implement
Ethernet VPN functions in a programmable format, while retaining the highspeed processing capabilities previously
associated with fixed silicon implementations. The ability to program the
network processor means that fastmoving changes in standards defining
Table 1. Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 key benefits
Feature Benefit
Maximizes revenue generation
Allows efficient triple play service
delivery on every UNI port
Ensures high availability to meet strict
SLAs
Provides complete end-user service
delineation and controls service
parameters
Delivers extraordinary degrees of
network and service scalability, security
and operational ease
Enables multiple levels of service at
different price points
Provides enhanced SLA monitoring for
service assurance
Meets interworking demands of multivendor Ethernet switched and transport
networks
Multiple services (e.g., Internet access,
transparent LAN service, VoIP VPNs,
etc.) supported per user-network interface (UNI) port
Efficient IP Multicast and VLAN-to-IP
network mapping capabilities
Ethernet access ring resiliency with
50ms protection on the ring
A well-defined Ethernet UNI
A robust network-to-network interface
(NNI), enabling support of up to 16
million Ethernet VPNs
A flexible suite of traffic policing, QoS
and statistics capabilities
OAM&P tools supporting end-to-end,
per-VPN performance monitoring and
measurement capabilities
Support for existing and emerging
Ethernet-related industry standards
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how VPNs are implemented can be
captured and brought to market quickly,
and at minimal cost.
Service topologies supported include
point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and
any-to-any models. Implementation of
these specific topologies gives service
providers and enterprises additional flexibility while improving overall resource
utilization and network efficiency. For
example, an enterprise customer with a
headquarters site and many branch
offices would benefit from an Ethernet
VPN service implemented in a point-tomultipoint or hub-and-spoke fashion.
Leveraging a point-to-multipoint service
topology, service providers can restrict
the spokes to only communicate through
the hub, thereby maximizing the efficiencies of their Ethernet infrastructure
and optimizing resource utilization and
enhancing data security.
Metro Ethernet supported access
deployment models are:
• Single enterprise service access via a
dedicated link
• Multiple enterprise service access via a
pre-standard IEEE 802.1ad Ethernet
access link
• Multiple enterprise service access via
an Ethernet Services Unit access ring
This flexibility makes it appropriate for
both greenfield build-outs as well as
demand-based expansions to existing
infrastructures. These same capabilities
limit the number of truck-rolls required
to add users and adjust service levels
across the network.
Scalability and efficiency
The primary responsibility of the
Ethernet UNI is service demarcation, yet
the Nortel Ethernet UNI goes beyond
simple demarcation by allowing service
providers and enterprises to deliver
multiple services and service types per
port. The UNI encapsulates customer
data and adds a unique service label so
service providers no longer need to
worry about overlapping VLAN-IDs,
significantly simplifying operations. The
Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600
maps customer VLAN IDs to IEEE
802.1ah service identifiers. A transparent UNI is defined when all traffic
on a physical port is assigned to a single
service ID, while a mapped UNI provides
multiple services per physical port to one
or more customers. This can be accomplished across thousands of service and
customer instances as shown in Table 2.
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600, when performing the role of a
Provider Backbone Bridge, aggregating
Provider Bridge traffic that is Q-in-Q
tagged, can use either the outer (provider)
Q-tag or the combination of inner
(customer) and outer (provider) Q-tags
for service assignment and classification.
This capability gives the service provider
superior flexibility for interworking with
a wide variety of access devices to support
the desired service definitions.
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 improves bandwidth efficiency by
encapsulating enterprise broadcast traffic
inside provider unicast packets. Additionally, the 802.1ah Provider Backbone
Bridge implementation uses the MAC
addresses of the Ethernet UNIs (ingress
ports), rather than customer MACs in
the switch forwarding tables. This eliminates the “MAC address explosion” issue
by greatly reducing the number of MAC
addresses that must be learned and
maintained by switches in the service
provider’s core infrastructure. Keeping
the number of MAC addresses to a
minimum reduces the aging out and
relearning of MAC addresses, thus
enhancing end-to-end performance and
making network forwarding far more
stable.
The Metro Ethernet Routing
Switch 8600 delivers high
performance, carrier-class
Ethernet switching functions
for key service provider and
large enterprise applications:
• Broadband managed
services to apartments,
condominiums, office
parks, campuses and more
• Carrier-class Ethernet
VPNs for seamless
LAN/MAN/WAN
connectivity
• Point-of-presence
(PoP) edge-to-core
traffic aggregation
• Efficient mobile backhaul
of 3G/4G traffic
• Latency-sensitive and
high availability data
center applications
Table 2. Metro Ethernet Routing
Switch 8600 scalability
Scalability parameter Maximum
Unique service 16,000,000+
identifiers
Customer VLANs 4,000
per UNI port
Provider Bridge VLANs 4,000
per UNI port
EVPN service instances 30,000
per chassis (e.g. E-LINE,
E-LAN, E-TREE)
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With Provider Backbone Transport
(PBT) technology, efficient trunks can
be engineered thru the network to
deliver end-to-end traffic with deterministic routing and QoS in support of
individual multiple-priority services or
aggregrated services being backhauled
across the MAN. PBT avoids the inefficiencies and lack of carrier-class resilience
that otherwise arise from use of the
traditional spanning tree algorithm.
Rolled out as a software release on the
Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600,
PBT functionality can be deployed as
needed, and need not be deployed
uniformly across the entire network.
Figure 1 shows the Metro Ethernet
Routing Switch 8600 deployed in
support of triple play services including
video (broadcast TV, video on demand),
voice over IP (VoIP) and high-speed
Internet access over a common network.
Residential subscribers are connected to
the network via various access technologies (xDSL, cable, direct fiber, Ethernet
access ring, etc.) while enterprise
subscribers are connected via direct
Ethernet VPNs using the same access
infrastructure. A mix of residential and
enterprise services are supported on
every port, creating a truly shared
Ethernet-based infrastructure without
compromising on performance.
Triple play services can be further
distributed via an Ethernet access ring
topology using Nortel Metro Ethernet
Services Units. The Metro Ethernet
Routing Switch 8600 supports services
through other access topologies, such as
point-to-point fiber, IEEE 802.1ad
access networks and broadband aggregation devices.
Determinism and Ethernet
In a carrier environment, the connectionless behavior of traditional Ethernet implies a level of unpredictability that is troublesome in a high availability environment. A recent development in
the Ethernet world has been the work on a connection-oriented
technique known as Provider Backbone Transport (PBT). PBT
builds on the hierarchical nature of PBB (or MAC-in-MAC) by
using the backbone address and VLAN tag as identifiers for a
deterministic “tunnel” through the network. PBT is being actively
worked in the IEEE 802.1Qay committee where it is known as
Provider Backbone Bridges — Traffic Engineering.
PBT provides Ethernet with a connection-oriented forwarding
mode, which enables dedicated Ethernet links with guaranteed,
deterministic performance levels. In this way, PBT delivers QoS
over an Ethernet network without the added cost of connectionoriented alternatives. PBT also delivers the following benefits to
the service provider:
• Scalability—PBT does not rely on the traditional Ethernet
MAC address learning methods. This explicit learning approach
removes the undesirable MAC flooding behavior that otherwise
limits the size of the network.
• Resiliency—Since PBT allows creation of point-to-point
connections across the network, working and protection routes
can be provisioned to provide end-to-end resiliency across arbitrary mesh topologies.
• Network utilization—The ability to fully manage traffic paths
and know exactly which customer traffic is being carried over
which path allows customer SLAs to be met without overprovisioning and under-utilizing network capacity.
• Manageability—Since the operations support system (OSS)
is aware of the route taken by each service, functions such as
alarm correlation, service-fault correlation and serviceperformance correlation are simplified.
• Security—Using point-to-point Ethernet tunnels across the
network protects traffic from misconfiguration errors or interception by those with malicious intent. Furthermore, by avoiding
the flooding behavior of conventional Ethernet, unintentional
leakage of packets to endpoints for which they were not
intended can be avoided.
Reliability
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 architecture is designed to provide
protection strategies at multiple levels to
deliver “five nines” availability.
At the device level, the Metro Ethernet
Routing Switch 8600 is equipped with
redundant, hot-swappable, components
— switch fabrics, control processors,
power supplies and fan trays. Temperature
sensors constantly monitor the components and cooling systems to maintain
acceptable system conditions.
At the trunk level, Distributed MultiLink Trunking (DMLT) provides redundancy by enabling trunk groups to be
configured across different slots in the
same chassis. In the event of a failure,
links would remain active, because
other modules in the trunk group could
take over.
Network and link redundancy is provided
by several key features:
• 50ms failover when using ring-based
access with Metro Ethernet Services
Units
• 50ms failover based on LACP MLT
between Metro Ethernet Routing
Switch 8600s
• 50ms failover based on 802.1ag
signaling across PBT tunnels
• Multi-Link Trunking
• Sub-second failover based on
RSTP/MSTP protocols (IEEE 802.1w
and 802.1s respectively) on NNI
trunk ports
Nortel’s innovative Split Multi-Link
Trunking (SMLT) and PBT capabilities
improve the scalability and reliability of
Layer 2 networks by removing spanning
tree convergence issues and providing
faster recovery in the event of link
failures
Service management
Service providers require mature network
and service management systems that
allow quick configuration of the network
to support new services as well as quality
control of ongoing operations. Since it is
important to get the customer’s service
up and running quickly, and then keep
the service running as measured against
a service level agreement (SLA), the
service provider must have the performance measurements to back up any
service-level claims. Additionally, if a
fault does occur, the service provider
needs the troubleshooting functionality
to locate the fault, identify which services have been impacted and react to
these appropriately.
Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Manager (MEM)
is a complete, robust network and
service management solution that extends
Nortel’s key Metro Ethernet innovations
such as PBB/PBT technologies while
addressing these top-of-mind operational challenges for service providers.
Purpose-built to simplify Ethernet operations and facilitate service turn-up,
Metro Ethernet Manager employs a
consistent work-flow approach to planning and deploying services reliably
while minimizing opportunities for
configuration mistakes, and allowing
quick root cause analysis and recovery
when they do occur.
Customer premises Access and aggregation WANMetro Core
Figure 1. A converged network showing simultaneous delivery of multiple services to varied end users
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Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Manager provides
extensive capabilities for performance
monitoring, service assurance, SLA
measurement and troubleshooting. This
advanced management toolkit allows
scheduling of periodic tests and generation of a history of the test results to
validate VPN endpoints. Tests can
include reachability/connectivity (uptime),
performance monitoring (e.g., roundtrip delay) and failure indications (packet
loss). These are critical to measuring and
validating customers’ SLAs. This capability allows service providers to detect
problems with the service before the
customer notices the service degradation. These tools also allow the service
provider to troubleshoot and isolate any
problem quickly and methodically.
This operational simplicity at the service
level enables significant operational
savings.
Ethernet for Video Services
Recent trends in access and metro networks indicate that end
users, be they business or residential, are using more and more of
the network capacity available to them. The root cause for this
significant increase in bandwidth usage is almost always attributable to some form of video application.
Such services require that the network support efficient distribution of video content to a large audience across an entire metro or
regional area. These traffic patterns drive a hub-and-spoke architecture in which a “hub” node directs the required video streams
to the appropriate “spokes.” With support for a “Dual Hub E-TREE
service” on Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and Ethernet
Services Units (18xx family), Nortel’s carrier Ethernet solution
provides a high-performance video backhaul transport to end users
across the access and aggregation networks to provider hub sites
where services are instantiated. With the ability to direct broadcast
traffic to only the appropriate network elements as needed, the
Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 can connect to more than one
hub, and thus provide redundancy or load-balancing. See Figure 2.
Metro ESUs support Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
processing and snooping —the de-facto standard for joining and
leaving multicast groups. This helps optimize the delivery of broadcast traffic in the access network for maximum network efficiency.
Figure 2. Triple play services implementation
Triple play
service platforms
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Quality of Service
For enterprises and service providers
alike, the network must be able to
maintain quality of service profiles and
differential service treatment from end
to end. Traffic classification occurs at
ingress, per-service endpoint, and is
done using customer 802.1p or customer
TOS/DSCP markings.
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 implementation is based on RFC
2698, Two Rate Three Color Marker.
This algorithm meters an IP/Ethernet
packet stream and marks its packets
based on two rates — Peak Information
Rate (PIR) and Committed Information
Rate (CIR) — and their associated burst
sizes, to be green, yellow or red. A packet
is marked red if it exceeds the PIR.
Otherwise, it is marked either yellow or
green depending on whether it exceeds
or doesn’t exceed the CIR.
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 supports four classes of service,
with four distinctive queues. Applications
are prioritized across the network using
intelligent agents in the interface modules
to support IEEE 802.1p Class of Service
(CoS) and IETF Differentiated Service
(DiffServ).
All frames egressing a 802.1ah MACin-MAC network are marked with
proper 802.1p CoS markings, enabling
end-to-end QoS and multi-vendor
interoperability. Operators can set
policing parameters per port for transparent ports and per-port per VPN for
switched (mapped) ports.
Policing
• Ingress policing on a per-port basis for
transparent UNI
• Ingress policing on per-service basis
for switched UNI
• User-tunable bandwidth in increments
of 64 kbps up to 1 Mbps, then to line
rate in increments of 1 Mbps
• Committed and Peak Information
Rate policing parameters
Ingress packet classification
• Per-port basis
• Configurable mapping of customer
802.1p to service provider priority
level per service
• Configurable mapping of customer
Type of Service (ToS) field to service
provider priority level per service
Simple operations
Operators and enterprises alike face unprecedented challenges to control the overall cost of maintaining
and operating their rapidly growing networks. Convergence of services onto an Ethernet infrastructure
affords a unique opportunity to leverage the low cost of Ethernet infrastructure without sacrificing the
carrier-class qualities needed to support the scale and variety of services flowing through the network.
Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Manager provides a single interface for all network planning, device configuration
and ongoing service management. Tasks such as service provisioning, network state synchronization,
backup/restore, software image configuration/delivery, and ongoing fault detection and management are
centralized in one operations solution capable of visualizing the entire L0/L1/L2 network.
Benefits to the enterprise or service provider include:
• Time to service—With simple, scalable and effective end-to-end service provisioning and agile network configuration. Single endpoint service activation at
the Ethernet UNI followed by continuity check verification avoids configuration
errors, as well as costly truck rolls.
• Deterministic service manageability—Advanced network and service troubleshooting leads to proactive service assurance and rapid failure analysis.
• Simplified converged operations—Common and familiar workflows for
Ethernet, WDM and SONET/SDH, leveraging operations values of today’s
operations model.
Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 (8010C) Chassis)
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Interoperability
With its network processor-enabled
flexibility, the Metro Ethernet Routing
Switch 8600 interworks with a comprehensive range of Ethernet technologies
on the user side, including:
• IEEE 802.1Q Ethernet VLANs
• IEEE 802.1ad Ethernet Q-in-Q
networks (Provider Bridges)
• HVPLS N-PE
The Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 supports the 8630GBR and the
8683XLR for network-to-network interface (NNI) ports. These modules support
30 ports of 1000BaseX SFPs and 3 ports
of 10 Gigabit Ethernet XFPs respectively.
MLT and SMLT are supported for n x
1GE or n x 10 GE load balanced trunks.
Egress rate shaping is supported on the
8630GBR and the 8683XLR. Handoff
can be either IEEE 802.1ah or 802.1ad
format. As an additional security feature,
the modules support 1,000 L2-L7 access
control list (ACL) filters on ingress and
1,000 on egress per port. ACLs can be
configured to provide an additional
safety net to ensure that traffic going to
other parts of the network conforms to
certain rules.
Chassis choices
With a range of fault-tolerant models to
choose from, the Metro Ethernet Routing
Switch 8600 offers cost-effective Ethernet
switching solutions with superior flexibility for enterprises and service providers.
Three redundant chassis models are
available.
For service provider central offices, Nortel
offers a NEBS3-compliant 10-slot
chassis designed for the most demanding
environments, with enhanced cooling
and electromagnetic interference (EMI)
protection features.
Where high density, availability and
scalability are essential, Nortel offers a
10-slot chassis — one or two slots for a
load-sharing CPU/switching fabric
module, with the 8 remaining slots
available for input/output modules.
Where space is at a premium and lower
density is desired, a 6-slot chassis is
available.
Module choices
A range of switch modules for access
and trunking makes the Metro Ethernet
Routing Switch 8600 ideal for the
evolving network. Configurations can
be mixed and matched to offer Ethernet
interfaces from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps, in
conjunction with the Metro Ethernet
Services Units or Ethernet switches from
Nortel or other manufacturers.
The range of module options means the
network can grow as business needs
grow. The platform can support scalable
switching bandwidth up to 512 Gbps
— wire-speed routing of hundreds of
millions of packets per second.
This unparalleled flexibility protects the
network investment by accommodating
evolving Ethernet standards and hardto-forecast business growth.
Ethernet has
emerged as the
infrastructure of
choice for new
service provider
deployments as
well as for Layer 2
enterprise-wide
interconnect.
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Ordering information
Order number Description
Chassis and power supplies
DS1402001 8010 10 slot chassis. Includes chassis, dual backplane, two fan trays, RS232 cable for management console,
rack mount kit and cable guide kit. Requires at least one power supply, up to three power supplies supported.
DS1402002 8006 6 slot chassis. Includes chassis, dual backplane, fan tray, RS232 cable for management console, rack
mount kit and cable guide kit. Requires at least one power supply, up to three power supplies supported.
DS1402004 8010co 10 slot NEBS chassis. Includes chassis, fan trays, RS232 cable for management console, rack mount kit
and cable management. Requires at least two 8004 power supplies, up to three power supplies supported.
Minimum SW ver3.1.2 required.
DS1405011 8005DC 1462W Power Supply. At least one power supply required per 8006, 8010 or 8010co chassis. Cannot
mix with 8004 series supplies.
DS1405012 8005AC 100-240 VAC 1140W/1462W Power Supply. At least one power supply required per 8006, 8010 or
8010co chassis. Lower output at 110VAC. Cannot mix with 8004 series supplies. Power cord ordered separately
— use AA00200xx series cords.
Software
DS1410019-4.0 Nortel Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Software Kit. Includes v4.0 MES SW license, Device Manager
and complete documentation set. One license kit required per chassis. Support contracts must be purchased
separately.
CPU/Switch Fabrics
DS1404103 Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8692omSF Switch Fabric/CPU. One required with R Modules. Operable with pre-
E, E and M modules. Includes 256MB SDRAM and 64MB PCMCIA. For use in Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 configuration.
DS1411025 Enhanced CPU Daughter Card (SuperMezz) for 8692SF. Includes dual 1GHz processors. SuperMezz is a manda-
tory requirement for IPv6 or Sub-100msec failover. Both 8692SF must have the SuperMezz installed; no mixed
configurations are supported.
Interface Modules
DS1404056 8648TXM. 48 port autosensing 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet interface module.
DS1404063 8630GBR Routing Switch Module. 30 port SFP GBIC baseboard. The 8630GBR requires the use of the 8692SF.
DS1404068 8668 (Ethernet Services Module). For use in both the PP8000 Metro Ethernet and OM8000 configurations.
DS1404092 8648GTR Routing Switch Module. 48 port autosensing 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000Base-T Ethernet Layer 3
switching interfaces. The 8648GTR is operable with the 8692SF only.
DS1404064 8683XZR 3-port 10GBASE-X Interface Module with XFP slots. Supports both LAN and WAN PHY. Requires
8692SF.
DS1404101 8683XLR 3-port 10GBase-X XFP Routing Switch Module baseboard. Requires 8692SF.
All SFPs, GBICs, MDAs and XFPs sold/ordered separately.
Products are available in 5/6 or 6/6 EUED RoHS compliant models; please contact your Nortel sales representative for the appropriate ordering codes.
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Technical specifications
Capacity and performance
• Full duplex switching capacity of 512 Gbps, with load sharing switch fabrics
• Performance for 64-byte packets: Aggregate throughput maximum of 384 Mpps, 10 microseconds latency
• Chassis options: 8006, 6-slot chassis for backbones of lower density or higher space premium; 8010, 10-slot chassis for high
availability/high scalability; 8010CO, 10-slot NEBS-compliant chassis. 2 slots reserved for switch fabric, balance for I/O modules
Switch Fabric/CPU modules
One switch fabric required; second optional fabric doubles capacity and provides load sharing
• 8691omSF Switch Fabric/CPU Module
• 8600 CPU Expansion Mezzanine card for 8691omSF. Field Installable. Supports 50ms failover in Metro Ethernet configuration
• 8692omSF Switch Fabric/CPU. One required with 8630GBR and 8683XLR modules. Interoperable with all pre-R modules
• 8692ommez Switch Fabric/CPU 8692 with Expansion Mezzanine card. Supports 50ms failover on NNI trunks with Multi-Link
Trunking and PBT
Interface modules
• 8668ESM. 8-port Ethernet Services Module. SFP-based, Gigabit Ethernet
• 8630GBR. 30 ports 1000BaseX for SFP
• 8683XLR. 3 ports 10Gigabit Ethernet XFP – LAN PHY only
• 8683XZR. 3 ports 10Gigabit Ethernet XFP – LAN and WAN PHY
• 8648GTR. 48 ports 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T
IP layer protocols
• IPv4
• Routing protocols: RIP, RIP2, BGP4, OSPFv2, IS-IS
• IP Multicast: PIM-SM, IGMPv1, v2, and v3, DVMRP
Address database
• ESM 8668: 98,000 MAC addresses per port
• Addressing: 48-bit MAC address, 32-bit IP address
• Gigabit Ethernet port MTU: 1950 bytes
• Jumbo Frames up to 9600 supported on specific modules
Ethernet protocols and standards compatibility
• IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-SX and 1000BASE-LX
• IEEE 802.3ab
• IEEE 802.3ad
• IEEE 802.3ae
• IEEE 802.3x (Flow control)
• IEEE 802.1D Bridging
• IEEE 802.1Q (VLAN tagging)
• IEEE 802.1p (Prioritizing)
• IEEE 802.1ad (Provider Bridge)
• IEEE 802.1ah (Provider Backbone Bridge)
• Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) (pre-standard IEEE 802.1Qay, PBB-TE)
• IEEE 802.1w (RSTP)
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Technical specifications—continued
Resiliency features
• Redundant switch fabrics and fans, hot swappable I/O modules, N+1 power supply redundancy
• High Availability Mode = hitless L2 failover; sub-second L3 failover
• IEEE 802.3 ad
• Multi-Link Trunking (MLT) for port level redundancy
• Distributed MLT for trunk level redundancy
• Split MLT for device level redundancy
Quality of Service traffic management
• DiffServ (RFC 2474), IP ToS precedence
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging, IEEE 802.1p User Priority settings
• Queues: 8 hardware queues per sub-port; strict priority and WRR configurable
Management and administration
• CLI
• SNMP (v1, v2, v3) compliant management
• Java Device Manager for configuration
• Integrated configuration, provisioning and management via Metro Ethernet Manager
Security
• Filtering: 4096 source/destination or global filter sets, filter actions include forward, drop, mirror, default, reset priority bit
• Internal DOS protection
• SSH and SNMPv3 support
• CLI access protocols; multiple access levels RO/RW password protection; up to six authentication levels supported, SSH, RADIUS
log-in and authentication
Physical
8010 10-slot chassis
• Rack space: 13RU, rack-mountable, up to 3 per standard 19", 23" or 600mm wide, 7' high frame
• Dimensions: 22.9" / 58.2 cm high. x 18.5" / 47.0 cm wide x 19.9" / 50.5 cm deep
• Weight: 85 lb. (39 kg) empty, 225 lb. (102 kg) fully configured
• Power: 100 / 240 VAC, -48 / -60 VDC,
8010CO 10-slot chassis
• Rack space: 20 RU, rack-mountable, up to 2 per standard 19", 23", or 600mm wide, 7' high frame
• Dimensions: 35.0" / 88.9 cm high X 17.4v / 44.2 cm wide X 23.7" / 60.2 cm deep
• Weight: 184 lb (83.46 kg) empty, 315 lb (142.88 kg) fully configured
• Power: 100 / 240 VAC, -48 / -60 VDC
8006 6-slot chassis
• Rack space: 9RU, rack-mountable, up to 5 per standard 19", 23" or 600mm wide, 7' high frame
• Dimensions: (H) 15.8" / 40.1 cm high X 17.5" / 44.5 cm wide X 19.9" / 50.5 cm deep
• Weight: 49 lb. (22 kg) empty, 140 lb. (63 kg) fully configured
• Power: 100 / 240 VAC, -48 / -60 VDC
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Technical specifications—continued
Environmental
• Operating temperature: 0° C to 40° C (32° F to 104° F)
• 85% - 95% maximum relative humidity, non-condensing
• Operating altitude: 3,000 m (10,000 ft) maximum
• Free fall/drop: ISO 4180-s, NSTA 1A
• Vibration: IEC 68-2-6/34
• Shock/bump: IEC 68-2-27/29
Electromagnetic emmissions
• US: FCC CFR47 Part 15, Subpart B, Class A
• Canada: ICES-003, Issue-2, Class A
• Australia/New Zealand: AS/NZS 3548:1995, Class A
• Japan: VCCI-V3/97.04, Class A
• Taiwan: CNS 13438, Class A
• Europe: EN 55022; EN61000
• Global: CISPR 22; CIRPR24
• CE Mark
Safety agency approvals
• International: IEC 60950
• Europe: EN60950
• IEC/EN 60825-1
• FDA/CDRH CDRH 21(J) CFR 1040.10
• US: UL60950
• Canada: CSA 22.2 No. 60950
• Australia/New Zealand: AS/NZS 3260
• Argentina: S-mark
• Mexico: NOM-019-SCFI-1998
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