The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 9000e Chassis LAN Switch family comprises the OmniSwitch 9700E, OmniSwitch 9702E and the OmniSwitch 9800E. These are fully featured, high-availability and high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) chassis LAN switches designed for the core, data centers and campus networks. The OmniSwitch 9000E family delivers wire-rate support of multiple virtual routing and forwarding (VRF), the foundation for network virtualization in the data center.
Network availability is enhanced through the in-service software upgrade (ISSU) capability such that emergency patching is achieved without taking the network down.

The OmniSwitch 9000E family protects current OmniSwitch investments by reusing existing and field-proven subcomponents from the OmniSwitch 9000 product line (such as the chassis, power supply units, and fan trays) and by leveraging the Alcatel-Lucent Operating System (AOS), which is common to all OmniSwitch products.
The OmniSwitch 9000E family has native and full support of IPv4/ IPv6, addressing the need for migration from IPv4 to IPv6 or new IPv6 deployments. It also brings carrier technology such as MPLS into the enterprise campus.
 

•    Prevent business interruption from failures with a combination of system’s redundancy and resilient topology protocols:
o    The system’s redundancy protects all critical functions, such as powering (redundant power supplies with AC and DC options), cooling (redundant fans) and switch management (redundant CMMs), with transparent failover and ISSU.
o    The AOS provides extensive support of layer-2 and layer-3 protocols to design always-available infrastructure.
•    Protect investment with a modular and scalable connectivity (GigE and 10GigE), but also with regular AOS software updates to keep on track with evolving standards (IEEE, IETF and ITU), such as IPv6 and MPLS
•    Protect business assets against direct attacks on the infrastructure (malicious and denial-of-service attacks) and enforcement of IT policy for post- and pre-admission control (unique traffic anomaly detection)
•    Reduce energy costs through the system’s low power dissipation (less than 1500 W in the worst case configuration)

High availability
•    Smart continuous switching for nonstop operation in redundant CMM configuration
•    In-Service-Software-Upgrade (ISSU) for hitless patching
•    Passive backplane and redundant active components (powersupply units, fans, CMM)
•    Extensive layer-2 and layer-3 protocol support for spatial resiliency
High performance and scalability
•    Wire-rate processing for simultaneous L2/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
•    Enhanced forwarding – improves network response time through hardware-based forwarding at first packet, and elimination of CPU solicitation for ACL/QoS demands
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 AOS user-oriented features such as learned port security (LPS), port mapping, DHCP binding tables and unified network profile (UNP)
Large campus and metro network
•    Layer 2 deployment using stacked VLANs, including OA&M toolbox and multicast support
•    Layer 3 deployment using multiple virtual routing and forwarding (VRF)
•    IP/MPLS deployment using Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)