The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6850E Stackable LAN Switch (SLS) family offers versatile, fixed configuration layer 3 gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) switches, which provide advanced services, high performance, and IEEE 802.3at-compliant Power over Ethernet (PoE). All models in the family are stackable and perform wire-rate, gigabit switching and routing for both IPv4 and IPv6, delivering intelligent services to the edge of the network with optimal quality of service (QoS) and integrated security, as well as network admission control (NAC).

These versatile LAN switches can be positioned at the edge of mid-to-large-size enterprise networks, at the aggregation layer, small enterprise core and perform as suitable, advanced customer premises equipment (CPE) for Ethernet access in metro and managed services.

•    Meets any customer configuration need and offers excellent investment protection and flexibility, as well as ease of deployment, operation and maintenance
•    Outstanding performance when supporting real-time voice, data and video applications for converged scalable networks
•    Ensures efficient power management, reduces operating expenses (OPEX) and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) through the low power consumption and dynamic PoE allocation, which delivers only the power needed by the attached device
•    A field-upgradeable solution that makes the network highly available and reduces OPEX
•    Fully secures the network at the edge, at no additional cost
•    Enterprise-wide cost reduction through hardware consolidation to achieve network segmentation and security without additional hardware installation
•    Supports cost-effective installation and deployment with automated switch setup and configuration and end-to-end virtual LAN (VLAN) provisioning
•    Simplifies Metro Ethernet network OA&M for service providers

Versatile features and models
•    24-and 48-port gigabit models with 10GigE interfaces. Optional 10G plug-in module delivers two additional 10G ports.
•    Up to 384 gigabit and 16 10GigE ports in a virtual chassis configuration
•    Support for IEEE 802.3af as well as IEEE 802.3at-compliant PoE
•    Modular AC and DC power supplies


High performance and availability
•    Wire-rate processing for simultaneous layer-2/IPv4/IPv6 traffic (unicast and multicast)
•    Extended scalability in network policies such as Access Control Lists (ACLs) and QoS, and multicast flows for a better VoIP/video experience
•    Resiliency provided through a superior architecture offering physical and functional redundancy everywhere: hot-swappable chassis, power supplies, transceivers; redundant backup power supplies and fans
•    Improved network availability by supporting Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) with sub-50 ms re-convergence time in ring topology, reduced traffic disruption times in routed environment by faster failure detection using Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

Comprehensive security
•    Flexible device/user authentication with Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian (IEEE 802.1x/MAC/captive portal) with Host Integrity Check (HIC)
•    Built-in intrusion detection system (IDS) with traffic anomaly detection (TAD) and quarantine enforcement mechanism
•    Extensive support of Alcatel-Lucent Operation System (AOS) user-oriented features such as learned port security (LPS), port mapping, DHCP binding tables and unified network profile (UNP)
•    Hardware-based virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) support for traffic segregation

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

Campus and metro network
•    Layer-2 deployment using stacked VLANs, including OA&M toolbox and multicast support
•    Advanced, out-of-the-box auto-configuration, Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) network policies and dynamic VLAN allocation
•    Layer-3 deployment using multiple VRF