Specifications

New and Enhanced Features in AlliedWare Plus 5.4.4 Major and Minor Versions 265
Key New Features and Enhancements
Software version 5.4.4 includes all the new features that have been added to AlliedWare
Plus since the release of 5.4.3-0.1. This includes all features that were released in 5.4.3
minor releases.
This section summarizes the key new features. For a list of all new and enhanced features
and commands, see “Changes in this Version” on page 269. For more information about all
features on the switch, see the Software Reference for your switch. Unless otherwise
stated, all new features and enhancements are available on all switch models running this
version of AlliedWare Plus.
Allied Telesis Management Framework
Allied Telesis Management Framework (AMF) is a sophisticated suite of management tools
that provides a simplified approach to network management. Common tasks are
automated or made so simple that the day-to-day running of a network can be achieved
without the need for highly trained, and expensive, network engineers. Powerful features
like centralized management, auto-backup, auto-upgrade, auto-provisioning and auto-
recovery enable plug-and-play networking and zero-touch management.
Since its initial release in software version 5.4.3-1.4, AMF has been enhanced with features
to increase its versatility, including the ability to work over WAN links and support for
larger networks—up to 120 nodes.
VCStack Plus for SBx8100 Series with CFC960
Control Cards
VCStack Plus makes networking simple. It allows a pair of physically separate chassis
switches to be connected together via high speed stacking links. This aggregates the
switches, which then appear as a single switch, or ‘virtual chassis’.
The virtual chassis can be configured and managed via a single serial console or IP
address, which provides greater ease of management in comparison to an arrangement of
individually managed switches, and often eliminates the need to configure protocols like
VRRP and Spanning Tree. It is a powerful and completely resilient network core, which can
be distributed over a long distance.
VRF-Lite
VRF-Lite provides Layer 3 network virtualization by dividing a single router into multiple
independent virtual routing domains. With independent routing domains, IP addresses
can overlap without causing conflict, allowing multiple customers to have their own
secure virtual network within the same physical infrastructure.
VRF-Lite is now available on SBx8112 and SBx8106 Chassis switches with CFC960 control
cards, as well as SBx908, x900 Series, and x610 Series switches.
DHCP Relay and DNS Relay are also now VRF-Lite aware.