Datasheet
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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850E
ALCATELLUCENT ENTERPRISE DATA SHEET
• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
(DVMRP)• Multicast Listener Discovery
(MLD) v1/v2 snooping for optimized
multicast traffic
Metro Ethernet access
• Ethernet services support per IEEE
802.1ad Provider Bridges (also known as
Q-in-Q or VLAN stacking):
¬ Service VLAN (SVLAN) and Customer
VLAN (CVLAN) transparent LAN services
¬ Ethernet network-to-network interface
(NNI) and user network interface (UNI)
services
¬ Service Access Point (SAP) profile
identification
¬ CVLAN to SVLAN translation and
mapping
• Ethernet OA&M compliant with ITU
Y.1731 and IEEE 802.1ag version 8.1
for connectivity fault and performance
management and IEEE 802.3ah EFM for
link OA&M
• Service Assurance Agent (SAA) for SLA
compliance validation
• Customer provider edge (CPE) test head
traffic generator and analyzer tool used
in the metro Ethernet network to validate
customer Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• TR-101 PPPoE Intermediate Agent
allowing for the PPPoE network access
method
• MAC-Forced Forwarding support according
to RFC 4562
• Private VLAN feature for user traffic
segregation
• DHCP Option 82: Configurable relay agent
information
• IP Multicast VLAN (IPMVLAN) for
optimized multicast replication at the edge
saving network core resources
• Optimized Ethernet access services
delivery
¬ Network bandwidth protection against
overload of video traffic
¬ Multicast streams isolation from
multiple content providers over the
same interface
• MEF 9 and 14 certified
• Managed by Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service
Aware Manager
Data center networking
• Dynamic Virtual Network Profiles (vNP)
• Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista™ 2500 Virtual
Machine Manager (VMM) and Virtual
Network Profiles (vNP) integration*
*- Contact for availability
SUPPORTED STANDARDS
IEEE standards
• IEEE 802.1D (STP)
• IEEE 802.1p (CoS)
• IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
• IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridges (Q-in-Q/
VLAN stacking)
• IEEE 802.1ag (Connectivity Fault
Management)
• IEEE 802.1ak (Multiple VLAN Registration
Protocol)
• IEEE 802.1s MSTP
• IEEE 802.1w RSTP
• IEEE 802.1X Port Based Network Access
Control
• IEEE 802.3i 10Base-T
• IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3x (Flow Control)
• IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T
• IEEE 802.3ac VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.3ad (Link Aggregation)
• IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3at PoE Plus
ITU-T standards
• ITU-T G.8032: Draft (June 2008) Ethernet
Ring Protection
• ITU-T Y.1731 OA&M fault and performance
management
IETF standards
IPv4
• RFC 2003 IP/IP Tunneling
• RFC 2784 GRE Tunneling
OSPF
• RFC 1253/1850/2328 OSPF v2 and MIB
• RFC 1587/3101 OSPF NSSA Option
• RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overflow
• RFC 2154 OSPF MD5 Signature
• RFC 2370/3630 OSPF Opaque LSA
• RFC 3623 OSPF Graceful Restart
RIP
• RFC 1058 RIP v1
• RFC 1722/1723/1724 /2453 RIP v2 and
MIB
• RFC 1812/2644 IPv4 Router Requirements
• RFC 2080 RIPng for IPv6
BGP
• RFC 1269/1657 BGP v3 & v4 MIB
• RFC 1403/1745 BGP/OSPF Interaction
• RFC 1771-1774/2842/2918/3392 BGP v4
• RFC 1965 BGP AS Confederations
• RFC 1966 BGP Route Reflection
• RFC 1997/1998 BGP Communities
Attribute
• RFC 2042 BGP New Attribute
• RFC 2385 BGP MD5 Signature
• RFC 2439 BGP Route Flap Damping
• RFC 2545 BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions
for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
• RFC 2796 BGP Route Reflection
• RFC 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions for
BGP-4
• RFC 3065 BGP AS Confederations
IS-IS
• RFC 1142 OSI IS-IS for Intra-domain
Routing Protocol
• RFC 1195 OSI IS-IS for Routing
• RFC 2763 Dynamic Host Name
• RFC 2966 Route Leaking
• RFC 3719 Interoperable Networks
• RFC 3787 Interoperable IP Networks
using IS-IS
IP multicast
• RFC 1075 DVMRP
• RFC 1112 IGMP v1
• RFC 2236/2933 IGMP v2 and MIB
• RFC 2362/4601 PIM-SM
• RFC 2365 Multicast
• RFC 2710 — Multicast Listener Discovery
for IPv6
• RFC 2715/2932 Multicast Routing MIB
• RFC 2934 PIM MIB for IPv4
• RFC 3376 IGMPv3
• RFC 4541 Considerations for IGMP and
MLD snooping
• RFC 5060 Protocol Independent Multicast
MIB
• RFC 5132 IP Multicast MIB
• RFC 5240 PIM Bootstrap Router MIB
IPv6
• RFC 1886/3596 DNS for IPv6
• RFC 2292/2553/3493/3542 IPv6 Sockets
• RFC 2373/2374/3513/3587/4291 IPv6
Addressing
• RFC 2460//2462/2464 Core IPv6
• RFC 2461 NDP
• RFC 2463/2466/4443 ICMP v6 and MIB
• RFC 2452/2454 IPv6 TCP/UDP MIB
• RFC 2893/4213 IPv6 Transition
Mechanisms
• RFC 3056 IPv6 Tunneling
• RFC 3542/3587 IPv6
• RFC 3595 TC for Flow Label
• RFC 4007 IPv6 Scoped Address
Architecture
• RFC 4193 Unique Local IPv6 Unicast
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