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Software enhancements
Multi-port Mirroring
The Ethernet Routing Switch 8600
includes RS line cards for enhanced
mirroring capabilities, including enabling
one-to-many, many-to-one and many-
to-many mirroring for traffic analysis
and IDS/TPS clustering.
Nortel Secure Network Access
Through Nortel Secure Network Access
(NSNA) v1.5, the Ethernet Routing
Switch 8600 offers ubiquitous and seam-
less secure access for internal end users
(i.e., wired or wireless LAN networks)
or outside users (i.e., remote access,
including SSL/IPsec/WAN networks).
Nortel (Networks) Command
Line Interface
The NNCLI (Nortel Networks
Command Line Interface) is a common
interface that follows the de facto
industry standard, ensuring a short
learning curve for engineers installing
the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600.
NNCLI is also supported by other
Nortel products, including the current
Nortel Ethernet Switching portfolio. A
common CLI for all devices simplifies
management and results in reduced ROI.
Scalability
The emergence of new technology
combined with a highly competitive land-
scape means organizations must move
quickly when adding new functionality
— a strong case for scalability. The
Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 offers
many scalability capabilities, including
4k IP Multicast S,Gs and 4k VLAN.
RSMLT-edge
The RSMLT-edge functionality supports
the use of RSMLT as a VRRP replace-
ment in highly-scaled networks that have
hundreds of end-station aggregation
switches. Since RSMLT does not depend
on a hello protocol for each virtual router
instance, the solution is more scalable
and resilient.
Why choose Nortel?
Nortel is the only vendor in the industry
to offer multiple options that enable
VPN solutions across the campus. These
options include standard solutions of
MPLS IP-VPN and Nortel’s IP VPN-
Lite, which offers the added benefit by
running over existing IP infrastructure
without the need for additional capital
investment or operational expense.
Nortel is also the only vendor that
delivers increased value per slot by intro-
ducing a combo module with copper
10/100/1000, SFP and XFP interfaces to
meet the demand of smaller aggregation
sites. Finally, Nortel has the distinction of
offering one of the industry’s highest 10G
densities per module/rack, and the only
solution vendor to offer best-in-class
resiliency with SMLT for VMware server
virtualization in an iSCSI environment.
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Summary
The Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 is a
resilient, intelligent, secure solution that
allows corporate networks to provide a
truly unified communications network.
Enabling a Resilient Terabit Switch
Cluster solution, the Ethernet Routing
Switch 8600 allows you to scale
converged and web applications
network-wide. Resiliency helps ensure
that network resources are always avail-
able. Intelligence delivers bandwidth and
performance for those applications that
need it the most when they need it.
Security helps ensure that the informa-
tion traveling across your network
remains secure and unaltered. Resiliency,
intelligence and security are the basic
network building blocks that allow an
enterprise to use their network to grow
their business and provide a solid founda-
tion for their future network growth.
The Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 offers
a high-performance architecture that
combines with rich, advanced services for
convergence applications to enhance,
protect and simplify network service and
operations. Customers seeking to make
strategic investments in their campus
LAN infrastructure can now create solu-
tions that will support business growth
for years to come. As a provider of end-
to-end solutions that span voice, data,
applications and network management,
Nortel has the necessary expertise to
increase your opportunities for prof-
itability, streamline your business opera-
tions, increase productivity and help
you gain competitive advantage.
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A real-world scenario: Virtual Routing and Forwarding
An international airport, which handles a large amount of traffic
from multiple national and global airlines and other local on-campus
businesses, is looking for a networking solution that will maximize
application uptime, safeguard information, while providing excellent
business value. By employing Ethernet Routing Switch 8600
and VRF-lite capabilities, the airport can keep airlines and their
respective traffic separate — all from one economical, simple-
to-implement and easy-to-manage hardware platform.
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Note that, where multiple iSCSI targets are
used, VMware recommends using ESX NIC
teams in “IP Hashing” mode to balance traffic
across NIC teams and take advantage of
multiple switch redundancy.