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