Introduction to Extreme Networks- VSP 8600 Switch
The requests on IT have certainly not been greater and the
stress is to do more with quicker response time and lower costs. The Extreme Virtual
Services Platform 8600 Series is planned from the field up to bring against a specification
of must-have abilities. Advanced design re-imagines how the modular Ethernet
Switch should be architected, but more prominently, it’s been planned to solve
the most tough challenges.
Network structure needs to be both alert and influential and
span old hardware aren’t up to the job of bringing what’s today needed. One
platform with multiple solutions. The new Virtual Services Platform 8600 Series
is dominant adequate to be at the core of the Campus or Data Center, adaptable sufficient
to bring multi-rate Ethernet ranging from 1 to 100 Gigabit, and compact sufficient
to be positioned as an end- or middle-of-row. The network substance, re-imagined
with network operators.
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Fig 1.1- Extreme VPS 8600 Switch
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Leveraging today’s most effective switching chipset strategies,
the Extreme VSP 8600 delivers more of the crucial 1 to 100 Gigabit Ethernet
speeds that we required for responsive service delivery. All this while intense
less valuable real estate.
Extreme VSP 8600 runs on VSP operating systems called as
VOSS. The VSP 8608 Chassis having eight slots for IOC Modules, with three
central slots reserved for Switch Fabric Modules and all are accessible from
the front of the chassis. Each 8600 Switch Fabric Module provides 7.2Tbps in
terms of aggregate bandwidth, or 3.6Tbps of Full-Duplex bandwidth. Therefore, a
fully loaded system, with three 8600SF Modules installed, delivers a raw system
capability of aggregate 21.6Tbps.
The front of the chassis also provides access for the Power
Supply bays. Up to four independent load-sharing PSUs are supported, and both
3,000W AC or 2,500W DC models are available. The VSP 8600 supports high-density
10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with stretchy multi-rate
capabilities.
Protocol Supported
- Conventional VLAN, Link Aggregation, Spanning Tree technologies
- Support for IPv4 Routing techniques, including Static, RIP, OSPF (including Graceful Restart), BGP, VRRP, and VRF
- Support for IPv6 Routing techniques RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP+, and VRF.
- IP Multicast support via PIM-SM/SSM for IPv4
- Supports protocols like EDM On/Off Box
- SNMP v1/2/3 ACLI RADIUS, Community-based Users Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System, TACACS+; Key Health Indicator (KHI)
- Logging; RMON Mirroring (port- and ow-based); Telnet Server/Client
- Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)Server/Client; File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server/Client Secure Shell (SSH) v1 and v2 Server/Client Secure Copy (SCP)
- Remote Shell (RSH) Server/Client and Remote Login (Rlogin) Server/Client
- Domain Name Service (DNS) Client; Network Time Protocol (NTP) and SoNMP (Extreme Networks Topology Discovery Protocol)
- Extreme Networks Virtual Link Aggregation Control Protocol (VLACP)
- Extreme Networks Simple Loop Prevention Protocol (SLPP) ; IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management and L2 Ping, Trace-route
- MAC Address: 256,000
- Port-based VLANs: 4,059
- MSTP Instances: 64
- MLT/LACP Groups: up to 192
- MLT Links per Group: 8
- Extreme Networks VLACP Instances: up to 128 Extreme Networks SLPP Instances: 500
Layer 3 IPv4 Routing Services
- ARP Entries: 64,000
- Static ARP Entries: 2000 per VRF, 10,000 per System
- IP Interfaces: 4,059
- CLIP Interfaces: 64
- IP Routes: up to 252,000
- IP Static Routes: 2,000 per VRF, 10,000 per System
- RIP Interfaces: 200
- OSPF Interfaces: 500 Active/2,000 Passive
- OSPF Areas: 12 per VRF, 80 per System
- BGP Peers: 256
- BGP RIB Routes: 1,500,000 (Control Plane only)
- ECMP Unique Groups: 1,000
- ECMP Paths per Group: 8
- NLB Interfaces: 128 per VLAN, 256 per System
- VRRP Interfaces: 512
- RSMLT Interfaces: up to 4,000 over 512 SMLT
- IPv4 UDP Forwarding Entries: 1,024
- IPv4 DHCP Relay Forwarding Entries: 1,024
- IP Route Policies: 2,000 per VRF and 16,000 per System VRF Instances: 512
