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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

Request for comment Description

RFC1591 DNS Client

RFC1812 Router requirements

RFC1866 Hypertext Markup Language version 2 (HTMLv2)

protocol

RFC2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol

RFC2131 Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)

RFC2138 RADIUS Authentication

RFC2139 RADIUS Accounting

RFC2338 Virtual Redundancy Router Protocol (VRRP)

RFC2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1

RFC2819 Remote Network Monitoring (RMON)

RFC2992 Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multipath Algorithm

RFC3046 DHCP Option 82

RFC3621 PoE – Power over Ethernet

RFC4250–RFC4256 SSH server and client support

RFC6329 IS-IS Extensions supporting Shortest Path Bridging

Quality of service

Table 25: Supported request for comments

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RFC2474 and RFC2475 DiffServ Support

RFC2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group

RFC2598 An Expedited Forwarding PHB

Network management

Table 26: Supported request for comments

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RFC1155 SMI

RFC1157 SNMP

RFC1215 Convention for defining traps for use with the SNMP

Quality of service

December 2014 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series 145

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