Riverstone Networks 9000 User Manual

High Performance, Converged Enterprise Solutions

From the industry leader in triple play

Alcatel OmniSwitch 9000

The award winning Alcatel OmniSwitch 9000 family (OS9000s) offers a range of full-featured,

high-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches, including a low-cost entry point chassis. The

OS9000s deliver future-proof solutions with advanced security and QoS features for use in

small-to-large enterprise cores, in the aggregation layer and in wiring closets with flexible

power-over-Ethernet support. The OS9000s are a part of Alcatel’s end-to-end enterprise

switch family.

The Alcatel OmniSwitch 9000s are designed to anticipate future network needs with wire-rate
processing for IPv4/IPv6 and support for unicast and multicast applications such as voice-over-IP and
video collaboration. The switches support future edge requirements as Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop
becomes commonplace and demand for power-over-Ethernet (PoE) capability increases.

High performance for converged networks

The OS9000 family is designed for resiliency and exceptional network performance to support real-time
triple-play applications such as voice-over-IP (VoIP), data, and video applications. Applications are
supported by:

• High-port density

• High-capacity switching and traffic aggregation for business network cores

• Highly-available switching fabric with a unique load sharing capability

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• Multi-layer security

• Wire speed packet classification

Simplified network management

Network management is simplified by providing users with commands and user interfaces they are
familiar with through use of the same Alcatel Operating System (AOS) that is available on all Alcatel
OmniSwitch plus complete integration with the Alcatel OmniVista Network Management System
(NMS). Alcatel also offers other management options such as WebView, which is a web-based
user-friendly element manager and SNMP for third-party network management systems.

Security

Alcatel secures the network with proactive and reactive capabilities that are provided through Alcatel
Access Guardian and the Alcatel OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager. Alcatel’s Access Guardian
enables proactive, network-wide security through auto-sense authentication that runs on the AOS,
preventing unauthorized network access. The Alcatel OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager provides
reactive security by automatically handling malicious attacks by taking intrusion information and
dynamically reconfiguring the network to contain the attack.

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Requires dual CMMs in either the OS9700 or the OS9800

“This switch best

supports the SNMP

standard and was the

only participant to

supply a web interface

from which we could

perform many tasks

normally accomplished

on a CLI.”

OS9700, Winner of

Network Computing’s

Editor’s Choice Award

Alcatel OmniSwitch 9000

The OmniSwitch 9000 Family

OmniSwitch 9600

The OmniSwitch 9600 (OS9600) is Alcatel’s low-cost, entry-point LAN switch solution that
provides the small enterprise the best performance-to-price available today. It also future­proofs the investment since the network can be expanded to support a larger core
inexpensively by reusing its current OS9000 cards in the larger chassis offered by the
OS9700 and OS9800. By offering the same features and capabilities as the other
OmniSwitch 9000 switches, more enterprise networks are able to afford a core that supports
converged voice, video and data and other applications.

The Alcatel OmniSwitch 9600 is a five-slot chassis supporting one chassis management module
(CMM) and four network interface (NI) modules. It offers a wide range of GigE and 10GigE
interfaces providing the industry’s most flexible combination of Ethernet interfaces for use in a
wiring closet. It also offers power-over-Ethernet to support IP telephones, WLAN access points
and video cameras. VoIP and video performance is also enhanced in an OmniSwitch-based
network through the use of policy-based QoS using OmniVista NMS PolicyView.

OmniSwitch 9700

The OmniSwitch 9700 is a high-density chassis with two slots for control and 8 slots for
network interfaces supporting an aggregation of up to 192 GigE ports or 48 10GigE ports.
Designed for smart continuous switching operation, the two center slots are dedicated to
chassis management modules (CMMs) allowing redundant configurations. CMMs provide two
critical functions – active/standby resiliency for control and active/active redundancy for the
switching fabric. The Alcatel OmniSwitch 9700 was recently named as Network Computing’s
Editor’s Choice for its superb manageability and ease of use.

OmniSwitch 9800

For those applications where a much larger port density is required, the OS9800 doubles the
OS9700 capabilities with 16 available slots supporting an aggregation of up to 384 GigE
ports or 96 10GigE ports along with two slots for control (Plus, the OS9800 has sub­components such as the power supply unit (PSU), fan tray and network interface cards (NICs)
that are all compatible and interchangeable with other OS9000s, reducing the cost of
keeping spares and lowering total cost of ownership.)

ALCATEL 3 >

OmniSwitch 9700

OmniSwitch 9600

OmniSwitch 9800

PRODUCT FEATURES AND BENEFITS

The new OS9000 switch family addresses the needs of converged
networks: high availability, wire-speed performance, high density GigE and
10GigE, and dramatically improved network response time. The OS9000
family provides an easy and economical way to upgrade or deploy a new
Ethernet network. The large number of ports makes the OmniSwitch 9000s
suitable for two- or three-tier network designs. This is possible because of
the high performance capability and density of GigE and 10GigE. The
OS9000s also future proofs the network with native and full support of
IPv4/IPv6 for addressing migration from IPv4 to IPv6 or new IPv6 deployments.

The OS9000s are engineered to be deployed in the:

• Enterprise core • Data center

• Wiring closet • Aggregation layer

Enterprise core / Data center

The OS9000s address enterprise network core requirements with:

• Enhanced VoIP and video performance with policy-based QoS using OmniVista PolicyView

• Future-proof support for multi-media applications with wire-rate multicast

• Enhanced forwarding - improves network response time through hardware-based forwarding at first
packet and elimination of CPU solicitation for ACL/QoS demands

• High-availability in network designs with dual-aggregation switch through extensive support of L2/L3
protocols for smart use of network topology redundancy

Aggregation layer

The OS9000s address aggregation requirements with:

• Higher 10G port density than competitive products

• Increased options for wire-rate GigE ports (copper, fiber, PoE)

Wiring closet connectivity

The OS9000 addresses wiring closet requirements with:

• Full power-over-Ethernet support for IP telephones, WLAN access points and video cameras with up to
2400W of power through dedicated power shelves

• Isolation of intruders with OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager

• Extensive support of AOS user-oriented features such as user authentication, learned port security (LPS),
group mobility, and port mapping

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Fans Redundancy

OmniSwitch 9000 full redundancy

CMM Redundancy

Power Redundancy

Highest availability for the enterprise

The OmniSwitch 9000s carry on Alcatel’s tradition of providing the highest availability possible to support the
demands of IP communications and mission-critical applications, all at an enterprise price. Providing the
highest availability to the enterprise ensures that users have constant access to resources and services at all
times. To ensure the highest levels of availability, the OmniSwitch 9000s provide:

• Distributed architecture, where each NI autonomously supports functions, such as source learning, Spanning
Tree functions, and L2/L3 forwarding

• Redundant modules and sub-components (CMMs

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, fans and PSUs)

• Hot swappable modules and sub-components (NIs, CMMs

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, fan trays, PSUs, SFPs and XFPs)

• Hitless loading of optional software (routing / security), without re-booting

• Image rollback to automatically re-load previous configurations and software versions

Resiliency – maximized network uptime

Network resiliency is critical to providing network availability. The OS9000s offer a superior architecture with
no single point of failure and a sub-second fail-over in its redundant configuration. If there is a CMM failure
the OmniSwitch 9700 and 9800 are able to provide continuous operation with no loss of connections when
configured with dual CMMs. Existing L2/L3 traffic, including voice conversations, will continue seamlessly
without interruption.

For single CMM configurations, network resiliency is achieved through switch redundancy, network path
redundancy, and the L2/L3 protocols for smart use of the switch and path redundancy. In this configuration,
the OS9600 has the best price / performance ratios.

ALCATEL 5 >

Alcatel OmniSwitch 9000

OmniSwitch 9700

CPU

CPU

CPU

CPU

X

X

X

X

Virtual Switching Fabric

CMM Monitoring
& Sychronization

CMM A

Active Control Standby Control

Standby Gigabit
Ethernet Connection

Active Gigabit
Ethernet Connection

CMM B NI 8NI1

STP BPDU

ARP Request

Locally Processed

Requests

Centrally Processed

Routing Update

Management Access

Principle of operation for distributed intelligence

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Requires dual CMMs in either the OS9700 or the OS9800