Installation guide

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BlackDiamond Overview
The BlackDiamond 6800 is a chassis-based system designed to be placed in the core of
your network. The BlackDiamond system is flexible and scalable, making it easy for you
to meet the changing requirements of your network. The combination of BlackDiamond
systems and Summit switches delivers a consistent end-to-end network solution that
provides nonblocking architecture, wire-speed switching, wire-speed IP routing, and
policy-based Quality of Service (QoS).
This chapter describes the following:
• BlackDiamond 6800 features
• Network configurations using the BlackDiamond 6800
• BlackDiamond 6800 components
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The features of the BlackDiamond 6800 include the following:
• A 10-slot chassis that can be populated with up to 8 input/output (I/O) modules
and two Management Switch Fabric Modules (MSMs)
• I/O modules and MSMs 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
• Up to 256 switched 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports