Design Reference

ManualsBrandsExtreme Networks ManualsComputers & AccessoriesFabric-enabled multi-service edge switches

141

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

149

150

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 19: Supported standards, RFCs,

and MIBs

This chapter details the standards, request for comments (RFC), and Management Information

Bases (MIB) that Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series supports.

Supported IEEE standards

The following table details the IEEE standards that Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series

supports.

Table 23: Supported IEEE standards

IEEE standard

Description

802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)

802.1D MAC bridges (Spanning Tree)

802.1AX Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

802.1p Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) prioritization

802.1Q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tagging

802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

802.1t 802.1D maintenance

802.1w-2001 Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

802.1X-2004 Port-Based Network Access Control

802.3 CSMA/CD Ethernet ISO/IEC 8802 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) /

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

8802-3

802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet 1000BaseT 4 pair Category 5

(CAT5) Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)

802.1ae MACsec

802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet

802.3af and 802.3at PoE – Power over Ethernet

802.3i 10BaseT

802.3u 100BaseT

December 2014 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series 143

Comments? infodev@avaya.com