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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

CANA

Use Custom Auto-Negotiation Advertisement (CANA) to control the speed and duplex settings that

the interface modules advertise during Auto-Negotiation sessions between Ethernet devices.

Modules can only establish links using these advertised settings, rather than at the highest common

supported operating mode and data rate.

Use CANA to provide smooth migration from 10/100 Mbps to 1000 Mbps on host and server

connections. Using Auto-Negotiation only, the switch always uses the fastest possible data rates. In

limited-uplink-bandwidth scenarios, CANA provides control over negotiated access speeds, and

improves control over traffic load patterns.

You can use CANA only on 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ-45 ports. To use CANA, you must enable Auto-

Negotiation.

Important:

If a port belongs to a MultiLink Trunking (MLT) group and you configure CANA on the port (that

is, you configure an advertisement other than the default), you must apply the same

configuration to all other ports of the MLT group (if they support CANA).

If a 10/100/1000 Mbps port that supports CANA is in a MLT group that has 10/100BASE-TX

ports, or any other port type that does not support CANA, use CANA only if it does not conflict

with MLT abilities.

Hardware fundamentals and guidelines

30 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series June 2015

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