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Table Of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
- Purpose
- Related resources
- Support
Chapter 2: New in this release
- VOSS 4.2.1
  - Features
  - Other changes
- VOSS 4.2
  - Features
  - Other changes
Chapter 3: Network design fundamentals
Chapter 4: Hardware fundamentals and guidelines
- Supported hardware
- Platform considerations
- Hardware compatibility for VSP 4000
- 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 5: Optical routing design
- Optical routing system components
Chapter 6: Platform redundancy
- Power redundancy
- Input/output port redundancy
- Configuration redundancy
- Link redundancy
Chapter 7: Link redundancy
- Physical layer redundancy
- MultiLink Trunking
- 802.3ad-based link aggregation
Chapter 8: Layer 2 loop prevention
- Loop prevention and detection
- SLPP example scenarios
Chapter 9: Layer 2 switch clustering and SMLT
- Split MultiLink Trunk configuration
Chapter 10: Layer 3 switch clustering and RSMLT
- Routed SMLT
- Switch clustering topologies and interoperability with other products
Chapter 11: Layer 3 switch clustering and multicast SMLT
- General guidelines
- Multicast triangle topology
- Square and full-mesh topology multicast guidelines
- SMLT and multicast traffic issues
Chapter 12: Spanning tree
- Spanning tree and protection against isolated VLANs
- MSTP and RSTP considerations
Chapter 13: Layer 3 network design
- VRF Lite
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
- Open Shortest Path First
- Border Gateway Protocol
- IP routed interface scaling
- IPv6
Chapter 14: 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 Fabric Connect restrictions
Chapter 15: 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
- Split-subnet and multicast
- Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode guidelines
- Protocol Independent Multicast-Source Specific Multicast guidelines
- Multicast for multimedia
Chapter 16: System and network stability and security
- DoS protection mechanisms
- Damage prevention
- Data plane security
- Control plane security
- Additional information
Chapter 17: QoS design guidelines
- QoS mechanisms
- QoS interface considerations
- Network congestion and QoS design
- QoS examples and recommendations
Chapter 18: Layer 1, 2, and 3 design examples
- Layer 1 example
- Layer 2 example
- Layer 3 example
Glossary

Release VSP 4000 model Description Part number

• two 1/10GE SFP+ ports

• Base Software License

• one (of two) field replaceable 1000W

PSUs supplied with the chassis

Note:

Replace the “x”

with a country-

specific power

cord code. See

the footnote for

details.

3.0 VSP 4850GTS DC • 48 10/100/1000 Base TX RJ-45 ports

• two shared SFP ports

• two 1/10GE SFP+ ports

• one (of two) field replaceable 300W

DC PSUs supplied with the chassis

EC4800078-E6

4.0 VSP 4450GSX-PWR+ • 12 10/100/1000 BASE TX RJ-45

ports with 802.3at PoE+

• 36 100/1000–Mbps SFP ports

• Two 1/10G SFP+ ports with MACsec

capable PHY

• One (of two) field-replaceable 1000W

PSUs supplied with the chassis

EC4400x05-E6

Note:

Replace the “x”

with a country-

specific power

cord code. See

the footnote for

details.

4.0.40 VSP 4450GTX-HT-PWR+ • 48 10/100/1000 Base TX RJ-45 ports

with 802.3at PoE+

• two shared SFP ports

• two 1/10GE SFP+ ports

• Base Software License

• one (of two) field replaceable 1000W

PSUs supplied with the chassis

EC4400A03-E6

• Same content as EC4400A03-E6

with a NA power cord.

EC4400E03-E6

4.0.50 VSP 4450GSX-DC • 12 10/100/1000 BASE TX RJ-45

ports

• 36 100/1000 Mbps SFP ports

• two 1/10G SFP+ ports with MACsec

capable PHY

• one field-replaceable 300W DC PSU

EC4400004-E6

4.0.50 TAA-compliant VSP

4450GSX-PWR+

• 12 10/100/1000 BASE TX RJ-45

ports with 802.3at PoE+

• 36 100/1000–Mbps SFP ports

EC4400x05-E6GS

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Hardware compatibility for VSP 4000

June 2015 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series 25

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