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LAN services?
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or video services?
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Demand services?
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Telephony services?
• Do you want to be able to support hundreds of
multicasting groups?
• Is fibre scarcity a consideration for you in
deploying an Optical Ethernet Metro network?
Typical Applications
Enterprise Customers:
• Desktop switching
• Enterprise core IP routing
• IP Multicasting
• Web hosting
• Metropolitan inter-site connectivity
Service Provider and Carriers:
• Metropolitan Ethernet Service
• Internet Data Centre
• Transparent LAN services
• Virtual Private Networking Services
• Disaster Recovery Services
• Service Provider internal networks
Key Points
High performance:
• 128 Gbps non-blocking switching fabric
• 96Mpps throughput
• Wire-speed L2 through L7 packet classification
• Wire-speed L2 through L7 forwarding for critical
data traffic
Resilience:
• "Five-nines" carrier-grade reliability –
no single point of failure
• Device-level redundancy – power supplies, fans,
switching fabrics, modules
• All components hot swappable
• Link-level redundancy – Multi-Link Trunking, Split
Multi-Link Trunking
• Network-level redundancy – Virtual Router
Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), Equal Cost Multi-
Path (ECMP) routing
• Security: Wire-speed security filtering,
user authentication
Flexibility:
• 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
• 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet
• Up to 384 10/100BaseTX ports, 192 100BaseFX
Ports, 128 Gigabit Ethernet ports per chassis
• OC-3 and OC-12 ATM
• OC-3 and OC-12 Packet over SONET
• Integrated Web-switching functionality
Low Cost of Ownership:
• Single platform for service delivery
• Integrated L2 though L7 switching in a
single chassis
• Simple solution – L2 Access, L3 Core
• Lowered training costs
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Passport 8000 Chassis