Alcatel-Lucent 6850 Switch User Manual


 
8 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 6850
HIGH AVAILABILITY
The OmniSwitch 6850s virtual chassis minimizes network downtime, reduces
operational complexity and cost and increases availability for mission-critical
applications by removing single points of failure.
The OS6850s resiliency is provided through a superior architecture offering
physical and functional redundancy everywhere:
Product features and benefits
Virtual chassis that provides management functionality and automatic election of
primary and secondary managers
Redundant backup power supplies
Fault tolerant loop stacking
Hot swappable chassis, power supplies, SFPs and XFPs
Image rollback to automatically re-load previous configurations and software versions
Hitless loading of optional advanced routing software without re-booting