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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

RFC1389 RIPv2 MIB Extensions

RFC1398 Ethernet MIB

RFC1442 Structure of Management Information for version 2 of

the Simple Network Management Protocol

(SNMPv2)

RFC1450 Management Information Base for v2 of the Simple

Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)

RFC1573 Interface MIB

RFC1650 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like

Interface Types

RFC1657 BGP-4 MIB using SMIv2

RFC1850 OSPF MIB

RFC2096 IP Forwarding Table MIB

RFC2578 Structure of Management Information v2 (SMIv2)

RFC2674 Bridges with Traffic MIB

RFC2787 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Virtual Router

Redundancy Protocol

RFC2863 Interface Group MIB

RFC2925 Remote Ping, Traceroute and Lookup Operations

MIB

RFC3416 v2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network

Management Protocol (SNMP)

RFC4022 Management Information Base for the Transmission

Control Protocol (TCP)

RFC4113 Management Information Base for the User

Datagram Protocol (UDP)

Standard MIBs

The following table details the standard MIBs that Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series

supports.

Table 28: Supported MIBs

Standard MIB name

Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers/Request

for Comments (IEEE/RFC)

File name

STDMIB2— Link Aggregation

Control Protocol (LACP) (802.3ad)

802.3ad ieee802-lag.mib

Standard MIBs

December 2014 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series 147

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