Installation guide

AT-8400 Chassis Installation Guide
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Hardware Features
Hardware features of the AT-8400 Series switch include:
 13 slots — 12 slots for line cards, such as Fast Ethernet and Gigabit
Ethernet cards, and one slot for the AT-8401 management card
 One pre-installed AC or DC power supply (depending on the
chassis model)
 One expansion slot for a redundant power supply
 One AT-8401 management card that supports the following
management access methods:
— Local (out-of-band) management using the RS-232 port on
the card
— Remote (in-band) management using Telnet, a web browser,
or an SNMP application program
Software Features
Some of the software features of the AT-8400 Series switch and line
cards include:
 AT-S60 management software — features menu, web browser,
and command line interfaces
 Enhanced stacking — simplifies network management by
allowing you to manage multiple AT-8400 and AT-8000 Series
switches from one management session
 BOOTP and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) —
automatically loads internet protocol (IP) configuration
information onto the AT-8400 Series switch
 Port-based and tagged VLANs (IEEE 802.1Q) — creates
independent traffic domains
 Basic VLAN mode — forwards packets by MAC addresses only
 Auto-Negotiation (IEEE 803.3u compliant) — automatically sets
port speed and duplex mode
 Spanning tree protocol (IEEE Std 802.1D), rapid spanning tree
protocol (IEEE Std 802.1w), and multiple spanning tree protocol
(IEEE Std 802.1s)— detect physical data loops in a network
topology and blocks ports of redundant paths