Specifications

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OmniSwitch 6850 Series
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As Enterprises search for competitive advantages in the market place and become increasingly dependent on their
networks to conduct business, new network requirements have rapidly emerged, exceeding the capabilities of successive
technological advancements.
Enterprise new challenges include:
 Highly available, highly secure, highly intelligent, highly manageable and highly scalable Enterprise networks
 The rapid growth of Internet, Intranet and Extranet networking requirements
 Emerging new applications: converged IP applications, streaming media, desktop conferencing, IP-storage, etc.
 Increased clients (vendors, partners, customers, distributors, telecommuters, etc.) access to network resources
 Support high-density traffic aggregation in mission critical business network cores
 Today’s Enterprise networks demanding higher switching capacities to improve performance and to
accommodate higher 10GigE port densities. The trends in this market are mostly price driven.
• 10GigE – Performance requirements
• 10GigE – Port density requirements
 Various government requirements for IPv6
 Requirements for fast network response times
To meet these new market demands, the solution is to provide intelligent devices capable of supporting a host of advanced
features for high volume intelligent traffic handling and processing. Intelligent performance is essential.
OmniSwitch 6850 Series value propositions, to support the Enterprise new challenges include:
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The OmniSwitch 6850 (OS6850) family is a new generation of stackable switching & routing platforms. 4.3.8
This AOS advanced switching & routing product family is considered as an evolution of the AOS OS6800 Series. The
OmniSwitch 6850 platforms provide high availability, embedded security, distributed intelligence, easy-to-manage, high
performance, and high throughput designed mainly for Enterprise Access and Distribution networks.
These features are available in a compact form factor at an extremely aggressive price point.
The OmniSwitch 6850 (OS6850) family is the Enterprise next generation stackable Switch / Router:
• A resilient, affordable & high performance solution
o Large Gigabit Ethernet port density
o 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks
o Redundant architecture for converged networks
o Native support for IPv4 & IPv6 for network future proofing
• A totally new Architecture
o Extensive Multicast support (L2/IPv4/IPv6)
o Enhanced network response time
o Protecting the control plane from external attacks (DoS)