Datasheet
Extreme Networks Data Sheet
© 2010 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reser ved. BlackDiamond 8800 Series—Page 9
Technical Specifications
IPv4 Router Requirements
continued
• RFC 1724 RIPv2 MIB
• RFC 2338 VRRP
• RFC 2787 VRRP MIB
• RFC 2328 OSPF v2 (Edge-mode)
• OSPF ECMP
• OSPF MD5 Authentication
• RFC 1587 OSPF NSSA Option
• RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overflow
• RFC 2370 OSPF Opaque LSA Option
• RFC 3623 OSPF Graceful Restart
• RFC 1850 OSPFv2 MIB
• RFC 2362 PIM-SM (Edge-mode)
• RFC 2934 PIM MIB
• RFC 3569, draft-ietf-ssm-arch-06.txt PIM-SSM
PIM Source Specific Multicast
• draft-ietf-pim-mib-v2-o1.tx
• Mtrace, a “traceroute” facility for IP Multicast:
draft-ietf-idmr-traceroute-ipm-07
• Mrinfo, the multicast router information tool
based on Appendix-B of draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-
v3-11
IPv6 Host Requirements
• RFC 5095, Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification
• RFC 4861, Neighbor Discovery for IP
Version 6, (IPv6)
• RFC 2463, Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMPv6) for the IPv6 Specification
• RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over
Ethernet Networks
• RFC 2465, IPv6 MIB, General Group and
Textual Conventions
• RFC 2466, MIB for ICMPv6
• RFC 2462, IPv6 Stateless Address Auto
configuration – Host Requirements
• RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IPv6,
August 1996 – Host requirements
• RFC 3513, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Addressing Architecture
• RFC 3587, Global Unicast Address Format
• Telnet server over IPv6 transport
• SSH-2 server over IPv6 transport
• Ping over IPv6 transport
• Traceroute over IPv6 transport
IPv6 Interworking and Migration
• RFC 2893, Configured Tunnels
• RFC 3056, 6to4
IPv6 Router Requirements
• RFC 2462, IPv6 Stateless Address Auto
configuration – Router Requirements
• RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IPv6,
August 1996 – Router requirements
• RFC 2710, IPv6 Multicast Listener Discovery
v1 (MLDv1) Protocol
• RFC 3810, IPv6 Multicast Listener Discovery
v2 (MLDv2) Protocol
• Static Unicast routes for IPv6
• RFC 2080, RIPng
• Static ECMP
Core Protocols for Layer 2, IPv4
and IPv6
Requires Core License or above
• EAPSv2 Shared Ports – multiple interconnections
between rings
• PIM-DM Draft IETF PIM Dense Mode draft-ietf-
idmr-pim-dm-05.txt, draft-ietf-pim-dm-new-
v2-04.txt
• RFC 3618 Multicast Source Discovery
Protocol (MSDP)
• RFC 3446 Anycast RP using PIM and MSDP
• RFC 2740 OSPFv3, OSPF for IPv6
• RFC 1771 Border Gateway Protocol 4
• RFC 1965 Autonomous System Confederations
for BGP
• RFC 2796 BGP Route Reflection (supersedes
RFC 1966)
• RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute
• RFC 1745 BGP4/IDRP for IP-OSPF Interaction
• RFC 2385 TCP MD5 Authentication for BGPv4
• RFC 2439 BGP Route Flap Damping
• RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
• RFC 3392 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
• RFC 4360 BGP Extended Communities Attribute
• RFC 4486 Subcodes for BGP Cease
Notification message
• draft-ietf-idr-restart-10.txt Graceful Restart
Mechanism for BGP
• RFC 4760 Multiprotocol extensions for BGP-4
• RFC 1657 BGP-4 MIB
• Draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-02.txt – Enhanced
BGP-4 MIB
• RFC 1195 Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP
and Dual Environments (TCP/IP transport only)
• RFC 2763 Dynamic Hostname Exchange
Mechanism for IS-IS
• RFC 2966 Domain-wide Prefix Distribution with
Two-Level IS-IS
• RFC 2973 IS-IS Mesh Groups
• RFC 3373 Three-way Handshake for IS-IS
Point-to-Point Adjacencies
• RFC 3784 IS-IS Externs for Traffic Engineering
(wide metrics only)
• Draft-ietf-isis-restart-02 Restart Signaling
for IS-IS
• Draft-ietf-isis-ipv6-06 Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
• Draft-ietf-isis-wg-multi-topology-11 Multi
Topology (MT) Routing in IS-IS
QoS and VLAN Services
Quality of Service and Policies
• IEEE 802.1D – 1998 (802.1p) Packet Priority
• RFC 2474 DiffServ Precedence, including
8 queues/port
• RFC 2598 DiffServ Expedited Forwarding (EF)
• RFC 2597 DiffServ Assured Forwarding (AF)
• RFC 2475 DiffServ Core and Edge
Router Functions
VLAN Services: VLANs, vMANs
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.1v: VLAN classification by Protocol
and Port
• Port-based VLANs
• Protocol-based VLANs
• MAC-based VLANs
• Multiple STP domains per VLAN
• Upstream Forwarding Only/Disable Flooding
• RFC 5517 Private VLANs
• VLAN Translation
• IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridge Network, virtual
MANs (vMANs)
• vMAN Ethertype Translation/Secondary
vMAN Ethertype
• Multicast Support for PVLAN
• Multicast Support for VLAN Aggregation
• VLAN Aggregation
General Specifications
Switching Capacity
BlackDiamond 8810
• 3.8 Tbps total switching capacity
• 2,840 Mpps Layer 2 HW forwarding rate
• 2,840 Mpps Layer 3 HW forwarding rate
BlackDiamond 8806
• 1,952 Gbps total switching capacity
• 1,420 Mpps Layer 2 HW forwarding rate
• 1,420 Mpps Layer 3 HW forwarding rate
Port Capacity
BlackDiamond 8810
• 72 ports 10GBASE-X (XENPAK)
(64 ports if 2 MSMs)
• 864 ports 10/100/1000BASE-T
(768 ports if 2 MSMs)
• 440 ports 1000BASE-X SFP (400 ports if 2 MSMs)
• 216 ports 10GBASE-X SFP+ (192 ports if 2 MSMs)
BlackDiamond 8806
• 40 ports 10GBASE-X (XENPAK)
(32 ports if 2 MSMs)
• 480 ports 10/100/1000BASE-T
(384 ports if 2 MSMs)
• 248 ports 1000BASE-X SFP (208 ports if 2 MSMs)
• 120 ports 10GBASE-X SFP+ (96 ports if 2 MSMs)
Port Capacity continued
Management Switch Modules
• The management and switching module
contains the control path and the switch fabric
for the BlackDiamond 8800
BlackDiamond 8900-Series Modules:
8900-MSM128 BlackDiamond 8900
Management Switch Module, optional I/O port
BlackDiamond 8800 c-Series Modules:
8800-MSM-48c BlackDiamond 8800
Management Switch Module, optional I/O port
BlackDiamond 8500-Series Modules:
8500-MSM-24 BlackDiamond 8500
Management Switch Module, optional I/O port
I/O Module Options
BlackDiamond 8900-Series Modules:
8900-10G8X-xl 8-port 10GBASE-X XFP
8900-G48T-xl 48- port 10/100/1000BASE-T,
RJ45, optional PoE
8900-G48X-xl 48-port 10GBASE-X SFP
8900-G96T-c 96-port 10/100/1000BASE-T
Gigabit Ethernet module
8900-10G24X-c 24-port 10GBASE-SFP+