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Table Of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
- Purpose
- Related resources
- Support
Chapter 2: New in Release 4.0.50
- Features
- Other changes
Chapter 3: New in Release 4.0.40
- Features
- Other changes
Chapter 4: New in Release 4.0
- Features
- Other changes
Chapter 5: Network design fundamentals
Chapter 6: Hardware fundamentals and guidelines
- Supported hardware
- Platform considerations
- Hardware compatibility
- Supported optical devices
- Dispersion considerations for long reach
- 10/100BASE-X and 1000BASE-TX reach
- 10/100/1000BASE-TX Auto-Negotiation recommendations
- Auto MDIX
- CANA
Chapter 7: Optical routing design
- Optical routing system components
Chapter 8: Platform redundancy
- Power redundancy
- Input/output port redundancy
- Configuration redundancy
- Link redundancy
Chapter 9: Link redundancy
- Physical layer redundancy
- MultiLink Trunking
- 802.3ad-based link aggregation
Chapter 10: Layer 2 loop prevention
- Loop prevention and detection
- SLPP example scenarios
Chapter 11: Spanning tree
- Spanning tree and protection against isolated VLANs
- MSTP and RSTP considerations
Chapter 12: Layer 3 network design
- VRF Lite
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
- Open Shortest Path First
- Border Gateway Protocol
- IP routed interface scaling
Chapter 13: SPBM design guidelines
- 802.1aq standard
- VLANs without member ports
- Provisioning
- Implementation options
- Reference architectures
- Solution-specific reference architectures
- Best practices
- SPBM restrictions and limitations
- IP multicast over SPBM restrictions
Chapter 14: IP multicast network design
- Multicast and VRF-Lite
- Multicast and MultiLink Trunking considerations
- Multicast scalability design rules
- IP multicast address range restrictions
- Multicast MAC address mapping considerations
- Dynamic multicast configuration changes
- IGMPv3 backward compatibility
- IGMP Layer 2 Querier
- TTL in IP multicast packets
- Multicast MAC filtering
- Guidelines for multicast access policies
- Multicast for multimedia
Chapter 15: System and network stability and security
- DoS protection mechanisms
- Damage prevention
- Data plane security
- Control plane security
- Additional information
Chapter 16: QoS design guidelines
- QoS mechanisms
- QoS interface considerations
- Network congestion and QoS design
- QoS examples and recommendations
Chapter 17: Layer 1, 2, and 3 design examples
- Layer 1 example
- Layer 2 example
- Layer 3 example
Chapter 18: Software scaling capabilities
Chapter 19: Supported standards, RFCs, and MIBs
- Supported IEEE standards
- Supported RFCs
- Quality of service
- Network management
- MIBs
- Standard MIBs
- Proprietary MIBs
Glossary

Chapter 18: Software scaling capabilities

This chapter lists software scaling capabilities of Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series.

Table 22: Software scaling capabilities

Maximum number supported

Layer 2

IEEE/Port-based VLANs 4,060

LACP 24 aggregators

LACP ports per aggregator 8 active and 8 standby

MACs in forwarding database (FDB) 32,000

MultiLink Trunking (MLT) 24 groups

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) 12 instances

Protocol-based VLANs 1

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) 1 instance

SLPP 128 VLANs

VLACP Interfaces 50

Layer 3

RIP interfaces 24

RIP routes 500

OSPF interfaces 48 (24 of these can be passive)

OSPF adjacencies 24

OSPF areas (per system) 64

OSPF routes per VRF 16,000

Note:

The maximum routes supported per VRF is

16,000.

The 16,000 routes can be distributed across

the 24 VRFs (+ GRT) in any manner. If all 24

VRFs are operational, 640 routes per VRF are

supported.

OSPF routes 16,000

OSPF VRF support 24

December 2014 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series 139

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