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Product Brief
Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600
Ethernet has emerged as the infrastruc- Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Routing Switch Quality of Service (QoS). Its flexibility,
ture of choice for new service provider 8600 has been a workhorse for enter- scalability and support for a wide variety
deployments as well as for Layer 2 enter- prises and a reliable profit-maker for of interfaces make it the natural fit for
prise-wide interconnect. Applications — service providers. It is leading the way in bu
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Table 1. Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 key benefits service provider MAC header and assigned a service identifier that is Feature Benefit globally unique to that service. Multiple services (e.g., Internet access, Maximizes revenue generation The Ethernet UNI neither uses nor transparent LAN service, VoIP VPNs, etc.) supported per user-network inter- processes Layer 3 address information face (UNI) port from the end-user’s network. Network Efficient IP Multicast and VLAN-to-IP Allows efficie
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how VPNs are implemented can be port. The UNI encapsulates customer captured and brought to market quickly, data and adds a unique service label so and at minimal cost. service providers no longer need to worry about overlapping VLAN-IDs, Service topologies supported include significantly simplifying operations. The point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 any-to-any models. Implementation of maps customer VLAN IDs to IEEE these specific topologies gives service
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With Provider Backbone Transport Determinism and Ethernet (PBT) technology, efficient trunks can be engineered thru the network to deliver end-to-end traffic with deter- In a carrier environment, the connectionless behavior of tradi- ministic routing and QoS in support of tional Ethernet implies a level of unpredictability that is trouble- individual multiple-priority services or some in a high availability environment. A recent development in aggregrated services being backhauled the Ethernet
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Ethernet Access Ring Customer premises Access and aggregation Metro Core WAN Voice Gateway Call Server Remote Office Voice WLAN Metro ESU network 18xx MERS Residential building 8600 IP/MPLS Optical Wide Area House transport Network SONET/SDH MERS OM 1000, OME 1000 8600 Corporate headquarters LH WDM Video Existing Headend Data center L2/L3 CLE OLT, Access Other PBB Fiber, Coax, CMTS, MPEG networks networks VOD or Copper Encoders Servers DSLAM Figure 1. A converged network showing simultaneous del
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Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Manager provides Ethernet for Video Services extensive capabilities for performance monitoring, service assurance, SLA measurement and troubleshooting. This Recent trends in access and metro networks indicate that end advanced management toolkit allows users, be they business or residential, are using more and more of scheduling of periodic tests and genera- the network capacity available to them. The root cause for this tion of a history of the test results to significa
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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 a
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safety net to ensure that traffic going to Module choices Interoperability other parts of the network conforms to A range of switch modules for access With its network processor-enabled certain rules. and trunking makes the Metro Ethernet flexibility, the Metro Ethernet Routing Routing Switch 8600 ideal for the Switch 8600 interworks with a compre- Chassis choices evolving network. Configurations can hensive range of Ethernet technologies With a range of fault-tolerant models to be mixed and mat
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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
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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 Fab
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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
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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 •
