Datasheet

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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900
ALCATEL-LUCENT ENTERPRISE DATA SHEET
• IEEE 802.1Qaz Data Center Bridging
Capabilities Exchange Protocol (DCBX)
• IEEE 802.1 Converged Enhanced Ethernet
(CEE) 1.01
• IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path
Bridging(SPB-M)
• RFC 7843 Virtual eXtensible Local Area
Network (VXLAN)
Software Defined
Networking(SDN)
• Programmable AOS RESTful API
• Fully programmable OpenFlow 1.3.1 and
1.0 agent for control of native OpenFlow
and hybrid ports.
• OpenStack networking plug-in compatible
with Grizzly or higher
• Software-controlled VXLAN hardware
VTEP gateway
Converged storage I/O
• Multi-hop FCoE transit switching with
FIPsnooping
• NPIV FCoE to FC forwarder gateway
with dynamic multipath load balancing
complaint with T11/BB-5
• End-to-end FCoE converged network
adapter (can) switching with T11-BB-6
• Native FC ANSI INCITS FC-PI-4 and FC-PI-5
• Dynamic session load balancing for the
N_port and F_port functionality
• Multi-hop FCoE for FC Inter-switch Link
(ISL) tunneling
• Multi-hop FCoE for standalone FC host bus
adapter (HBA) tunneling into storage area
network (SAN)
• Virtual SAN (VSAN) to VLAN mapping and
FIP snooping bridge (FSB)
• Fabric-provided MAC Address
(FPMA)support
• Server-provided MAC Address (SPMA)
support in FIP snooping
Advanced security
Access control
• Autosensing IEEE 802.1X multi-client,
multi-VLAN support for bridging and
SPBM/VXLAN services
• MAC-based authentication for non-IEEE
802.1X hosts
• Secure Shell (SSH) with public key
infrastructure (PKI) support for bridging
and SPBM/VXLAN services
• Terminal Access Controller Access-Control
System Plus (TACACS+) client
• Centralized Remote Access Dial-In
User Service (RADIUS) and Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
administrator authentication
• Centralized RADIUS for device
authentication and network access
controlauthorization
• Learned Port Security (LPS) or MAC
address lockdown
• Access Control Lists (ACLs); flow-based
filtering in hardware (Layer 1 to Layer 4)
• DHCP snooping, DHCP IP and Address
Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoof protection
• ARP poisoning detection
• IP source filtering as a protective and
effective mechanism against ARP attacks
Quality of Service (QoS)
• Priority queues: Eight hardware-based
queues per port
• Traffic prioritization: Flow-based QoS
• Flow-based traffic policing and bandwidth
management
• 32-bit IPv4/128-bit IPv6 non-contiguous
mask classification
• Egress traffic shaping
• Lossless Virtual Output Queuing (VOQ)
with configurable scheduling algorithms
• DiffServ architecture
• Congestion avoidance: Support for end-
to-end head-of-line (E2E-HOL) blocking
prevention, IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-based
Flow Control (PFC) and IEEE 802.3x Flow
Control (FC)
IPv4 routing
• Multiple VRF
• Static routing with route labeling
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) v1
andv2
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) v2 with
graceful restart
• Intermediate System to Intermediate
System (IS-IS) with graceful restart
• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) v4 with
graceful restart
• Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) and
IP/IP tunneling
• Virtual Router Redundancy
Protocol(VRRPv2)
• DHCP relay (including generic UDP relay)
• ARP
• Policy-based routing and server
loadbalancing
• DHCPv4 server
• Distributed ARP learning
IPv6 routing
• Multiple VRF
• Internet Control Message Protocol version
6 (ICMPv6)
• Static routing
• Routing Information Protocol Next
Generation (RIPng)
• OSPF v3 with graceful restart
• Intermediate System to Intermediate
System (IS-IS) with graceful restart
• Multi-Topology IS-IS
• BGP v4 multiprotocol extensions for IPv6
routing (MP-BGP)
• Graceful restart extensions for OSPF
andBGP
• Virtual Router Redundancy
Protocol(VRRPv3)
• Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP)
• Policy-based routing and server load
balancing
• DHCPv6 server
IPv4/IPv6 multicast
• Internet Group Management Protocol
(IGMP) v1/v2/v3 snooping
• Protocol Independent Multicast –
Sparse-mode (PIM-SM), Source Specific
Multicast(PIM-SSM)
• Protocol Independent Multicast – Dense-
mode (PIM-DM), Bidirectional Protocol
Independent Multicast (PIM-BiDir)
• Distance Vector Multicast Routing
Protocol(DVMRP)
• Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
v1/v2snooping
• PIM to DVMRP gateway support
• (S,G) and (*,G) forwarding
Advanced Layer 2 services
• Ethernet services support using IEEE
802.1ad Provider Bridges (also known as
Q-in-Q or VLAN stacking)
• Fabric virtualization services IEEE802.1aq
Shortest Path Bridging (SPB-M) and VXLAN
¬ Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC)
support for transparent LAN services
such as E-LAN, E-Line and E-Tree