The new Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6450 Gigabit Ethernet Stackable LAN Switch is the latest Value stackable gigabit switch in the OmniSwitch family of products. The OmniSwitch 6450 was specifically built for versatility offering optional upgrade paths for 10 Gigabit stacking, 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and Metro Ethernet services.
With an optimized design for flexibility, scalability as well as low power consumption, the OmniSwitch 6450 Stackable Gigabit Ethernet Switch runs the field-proven Alcatel-Lucent Operating Software (AOS), providing an outstanding edge solution for highly available, secure, self-protective, easily managed and eco-friendly networks. The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6450 family is embedded with the latest technology, AOS innovations and offers maximum investment protection.
Solutions benefiting from the OmniSwitch 6450 family of switches are:
•    Edge of small-to-mid-sized networks
•    Branch office enterprise and campus workgroups
•    Residential and commercial managed services applications
 

•    Uses AC or DC power
•    Offers high availability using stacking functions, redundant power and complete element redundancy
•    Offers a variety of Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), non-PoE gigabit and fiber models. Includes the 24- and 48-port (PoE and non-PoE) triple-speed copper versions and a 24-port fiber model
•    All models offer investment protection with a migration path to 10Gbs uplink
•    Supports advanced layer-2 switching with basic layer-3 routing at wire-rate speeds and extensive AOS functionality
•    Features always-on robust infrastructure, optimal response time for users and applications, and investment protection
•    Allows business continuity and prevents network outages with edge network security and control
•    Offers scalable and versatile configuration with effortless deployment meeting enterprise edge, branch office, campus or service provider preferences
•    Stackable, fixed-configuration chassis in a 1U form factor can be optionally equipped with Alcatel-Lucent-approved small form factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers supporting short, long and very long distances
 

Versatile Features and Models
•    24 and 48 ports, PoE, non-PoE and 24 port fiber models ship with 2 fixed SFP+ ports that operate at 1Gbs speeds by default and can be upgraded to 10Gbs with a license upgrade.
•    Scalability from 24 to 384 gigabit ports and 16 10GigE ports
•    Optional SFP+ stacking module
•    Optional 10GigE uplink license option
•    Optional Metro Services feature license option for service provider deployments
•    Support for IEEE 802.3af as well as IEEE 802.3at-compliant PoE
•    Internal AC or DC redundant power supplies
High Performance and Availability
•    Advanced layer-2+ features with basic layer-3 routing for both IPv4 and IPv6
•    Triple-speed (10/100/1000) user interfaces and Gigabit Ethernet fiber interfaces (SFPs) supporting 100BASE-X or 1000BASE-X optical transceivers
•    10 Gigabit uplinks with license installed
•    Wire-rate switching and routing performance
•    High availability with virtual chassis concept, redundant stacking links, primary/secondary unit failover, hot-swappable power options and configuration rollback
Comprehensive Security
•    Flexible and powerful device/user authentication with Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian (IEEE 802.1x/MAC/captive portal) with Host Integrity Check (HIC)
•    Advanced QoS and Access Control Lists (ACLs) for traffic control, including an embedded denial of service (DoS) engine to filter out unwanted traffic attacks
•    ACL-based role-based post admission control with user network profiles (UNP)
•    Extensive support of Alcatel-Lucent Operating System (AOS) user-oriented features such as learned port security (LPS), port mapping, DHCP binding tables.
Convergence
•    Enhanced VoIP and video performance with policy-based QoS
•    Future-ready support for multimedia applications with wire-rate multicast
•    IEEE 802.3at PoE+ support for IP phones, wireless LAN (WLAN) access points and video cameras
Management
•    AOS field-proven software with management through web interface (WebView), command line interface (CLI) and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
•    Ethernet OA&M support for service configuration and monitoring
•    Support by Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista™ 2500 Network Management System (NMS)
•    Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) applications for service providers