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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

Figure 12: Two VSP 4000 switches acting as BEBs

The SLPP PDUs generated by the VSP 4000-1 return to itself through VSP 4000–2, Bay Stack 2,

and Bay Stack 1. After reaching the threshold value, the SLPP shuts the port down, eliminating the

loop.

SLPP example scenarios

December 2014 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series 51

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