Installation guide

Alpine 3800 Series Switch Hardware Installation Guide 1-1
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Alpine 3800 Series Switch
Overview
The Alpine 3800 series switch is a chassis-based, Ethernet service provisioning switch
designed for edge and aggregation applications. The Alpine 3800 series switch is
flexible and scalable, making it easy for you to meet the changing requirements of your
network. The combination of BlackDiamond, Alpine, and Summit switches delivers a
consistent end-to-end network solution that provides a nonblocking architecture,
wire-speed switching, wire-speed IP routing, and policy-based Quality of Service (QoS).
This chapter describes the following:
• Alpine 3800 series switch features
• Network configurations using the Alpine 3800 series switch
• Alpine 3800 series switch components
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UMMARY OF
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EATURES
The features of the Alpine 3800 series switch include the following:
• A 5-slot or 9-slot chassis that can be populated with up to 4 or 8 input/output (I/O)
modules and one Switch Management Module (SMMi)
• I/O modules are hot-swappable, and include Gigabit Ethernet or 10/100 Mbps
Ethernet ports
• Redundant, load-sharing, hot-swappable power supplies
• Field-replaceable, hot-swappable fan tray