The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6900 Stackable LAN Switch family is layer-2 / layer-3 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) switches, designed for low latency, high availability and performance, resiliency and simplified operations and management.

These high-port-density 10GigE LAN switches are effectively positioned at the aggregation and core layer of campus networks to support the transition to 10GigE, at Ethernet Access rings in metro deployments, and as “top of rack” and “end of row” in small-to–medium-sized data center deployments.

 

•    Up to 1.28 Tb/s of wire-rate capacity, low latency and jitter, features including advanced buffer and congestion management
•    Offers excellent investment protection and flexibility by supporting variety of expansion modules used to increase the number of 10GigE ports as needed. Both models are designed to support 40G ports in a future release with the addition of new expansion modules.
•    Ensures efficient power management, reduces operating expenses and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) through low power consumption
•    Hot-swappable, internal, power efficient and redundant power supply for easy installation and maintenance
•    Best throughput/power consumption ratio saving energy costs
•    Outstanding performance when supporting real-time voice, data and video applications for converged scalable networks

High 10GigE port density in 1RU form factor that offers up to 64 10GigE ports or 16 40GigE (in a future release) or a combination of the two:
•    Wire rate, non-blocking at 640 Gb/s bidirectional
•    GigE and 10GigE on all ports of the system for smooth Gig to 10GigE transition
•    Redundant hardware system architecture. Internal, hot swappable power supplies, fans.

Front-to-back cooling:
•    Class-leading low power consumption per 10GigE port
•    Wire-rate processing for simultaneous layer-2/IPv4/IPv6 traffic (unicast and multicast) and layer-3 routing at Gig and 10GigE speeds
•    Built-in, shared packet buffer, dynamically allocated to handle burst traffic without packet drops
•    Advanced services incorporated in the operating system: QoS, Access Control Lists (ACLs), layer 2 and layer 3, VLAN stacking and IPv6
•    Comprehensive security: Built-in intrusion detection system (IDS) with traffic anomaly detection (TAD) and quarantine enforcement mechanism; learned port security (LPS), port mapping, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) binding tables and unified network profile (UNP)
•    Hardware-based virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) support for traffic segregation