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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 1: Introduction

Purpose

This document provides information to help you build robust, efficient networks using the Avaya

Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series .

You can use the examples and important design guidelines listed in this document for many

features and protocols.

Related resources

Documentation

See the Documentation Roadmap for Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series, NN46251-100,

for a list of the documentation for this product.

Training

Ongoing product training is available. For more information or to register, access the website at

http://avaya-learning.com/.

Viewing Avaya Mentor videos

Avaya Mentor videos provide technical content on how to install, configure, and troubleshoot Avaya

products.

About this task

Videos are available on the Avaya Support website, listed under the video document type, and on

the Avaya-run channel on YouTube.

December 2014 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series 7

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