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Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) Omni Switch 6900 Switch

 Today I am going to talk about the Switch capabilities of the Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) Omni Switch 6900 which has many capabilities to deploy in the LAN environment in any of the enterprise networks. We will discuss the switch capabilities in details one by one and also going to discuss about the benefits and features of the switch.


Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) Omni Switch 6900 Switch
The Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) Enterprise OmniSwitch 6900 Stack-able LAN and data center switches are compact, high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) and 40 GigE platforms. In addition to high performance and extremely low latency, they offer VXLAN, OpenFlow, Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), data center bridging (DCB) capabilities, QoS, Layer-2 and Layer-3 switching, as well as system and network level resiliency.
Fig 1.1- Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) Omni 6900 Switches 
They are designed for the most demanding software-defined operations in virtualized or physical networks and converged data centers. With their modular approach, the OmniSwitch 6900s support loss less configurations and native fiber channel ports for high-speed storage I/O consolidation.

They can be positioned as converged top-of-rack or spine switches in data center environments as well as core and aggregation devices in campus networks
Benefits: OmniSwitch 6900

  • Fine desire for middle community rightsizing in new and present converged campus networks. All Omni Switch 6900 fashions have a high density of interfaces, a small footprint and a large L2/L3 switching capability.
  • High availability through power supply redundancy, digital chassis era and In service software program improve (ISSU)
  • Flexible deployment in facts centers by means of preference of cooling direction, DC powering, Fiber Channel interfaces and VXLAN gateway in hardware
  • Simplified management through digital chassis generation wherein a fixed of OmniSwitch 6900 switches may be installation as a single switch
  • Decreased efforts to installation virtual Chassis and networks via the specific auto-material function that enables out-of-the-box community deployment without guide CLI programming
  • Decreased efforts to provision other community equipment connectivity through automatically spotting gadgets that use requirements-based protocols
  • Progressed records center workflow control thru automatic network provisioning for the duration of digital machine motion
  • Visibility and history of digital machine motion, visibility of carrier tiers among virtual Machines and interfacing to VCenter with OmniVista 2500 network management machine
  • Enterprise justification of the records center and Converged Campus community investment through customisable predictive community reporting with OmniVista 2500 NMS. (network Analytics available Q2 2015)
  • Ready for the future with help for programmability through the OpenFlow protocol and publicly available OpenStack plugin
Let's talk about the feature of the switch in details and how it can be better to deploy in the LAN environment for the enterprises.


Features: OmniSwitch 6900

  • Resilient hardware system architecture with hot-swappable power supplies and fans
  • Front-to-back and back-to-front cooling for deployment of choice
  • Wire-rate non-blocking switching and routing performance at 40 GigE, 10 GigE. 1 GigE and Fibre Channel (FC) at 2/4/8GFC
  • Virtual chassis technology for simplified management and higher availability of multiple switches
  • IPv4 and IPv6 switching and routing with VRF, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VRRP, DVMRP, IS-IS for converged campus and data centers
  • Data center deployment with Lossless Ethernet, Fiber Channel connectivity, VXLAN gateway in hardware
  • Programmable through OpenFlow 1.3.1/1.0 as well as publicly available OpenStack plugin; RESTful APIs and embedded Python support for SDN applications
  • Scalable network virtualization architecture with guaranteed SLA delivery over routed backbone and access provisioning, Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) for bridging and routed services, Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB), Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) and dynamic Virtual Network Profiles (vNP)
  • Zero-touch provisioning and network automation with out-of-the-box plug-and-play Auto-Fabric for automatic protocol and topology discovery. Protocol auto-discovery and self-provisioning works with any network device that supports widely used standard protocols.
  • Manageable through SNMP with advanced manageability by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise OmniVista™ 2500 Network Management System and Virtual Machine Manager