Design Reference

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction............................................................................................................ 7
Purpose.................................................................................................................................. 7
Related resources................................................................................................................... 7
Support................................................................................................................................ 10
Chapter 2: New in this release............................................................................................... 12
VOSS 4.2.1........................................................................................................................... 12
Features......................................................................................................................... 12
Other changes................................................................................................................ 12
VOSS 4.2............................................................................................................................. 13
Features......................................................................................................................... 13
Other changes................................................................................................................ 15
Chapter 3: Network design fundamentals............................................................................ 16
Chapter 4: Hardware fundamentals and guidelines............................................................ 18
Supported hardware.............................................................................................................. 18
Platform considerations......................................................................................................... 18
Platform power supplies................................................................................................... 18
Device cooling................................................................................................................ 19
Power specifications for VSP 4000 switches 4850GTS series and 4450GSX series.............. 20
VSP 4000 power supply power specification...................................................................... 21
DC power supply specifications........................................................................................ 24
Hardware compatibility for VSP 4000...................................................................................... 24
Supported optical devices ..................................................................................................... 26
Dispersion considerations for long reach................................................................................. 27
10/100BASE-X and 1000BASE-TX reach................................................................................ 28
10/100/1000BASE-TX Auto-Negotiation recommendations....................................................... 28
Auto MDIX............................................................................................................................ 29
CANA................................................................................................................................... 30
Chapter 5: Optical routing design......................................................................................... 31
Optical routing system components........................................................................................ 31
Chapter 6: Platform redundancy........................................................................................... 33
Power redundancy................................................................................................................ 33
Input/output port redundancy.................................................................................................. 34
Configuration redundancy...................................................................................................... 34
Link redundancy.................................................................................................................... 35
Chapter 7: Link redundancy.................................................................................................. 36
Physical layer redundancy..................................................................................................... 36
MultiLink Trunking................................................................................................................. 40
802.3ad-based link aggregation.............................................................................................. 41
Chapter 8: Layer 2 loop prevention....................................................................................... 43
4 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series June 2015
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