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Enterprise Data Chassis Switching

Avaya has been working for many years to bring converged communications to millions of users across the globe. Together with its business partners, Avaya jointly delivers innovative integrated IP systems - across Voice, Contact Centre, LANs, WANs, Data Centres and VPNs. The solutions are designed to leverage today's networks while providing cost-effective evolution to the networks of tomorrow.

From design, installation and launch of new networks, to the upgrade, support and management of existing systems, Avaya's portfolio of solutions is one of the most comprehensive in the industry.

Avaya LAN solutions are based on a simple two layer model - core and edge. This makes designing a solution a lot easier. Just get the appropriate number of edge switches for the number of user devices required and then deploy core switches that give you the performance and resilience to support the solution.

Avaya is at the forefront of driving Gigabit to the desktop and 10G and beyond in the core. There is a big shift in the market from 10/100 and Avaya is ideally placed to offer customers the solutions they are now demanding.

Avaya’s industry leading Switch Clustering resilience technology supports the modern converged network, carrying mission critical and real-time voice and video, delivering 99.999% availability.

Core Ethernet Switching

Positioned at the heart of the network, core Ethernet switches provide the aggregation point between users connected to the edge switches and applications running to the data center infrastructure. The core plays a pivotal role, determining overall network availability and performance.

Avaya’s Core Ethernet Switches are primarily differentiated from others by Switch Clustering technology, which delivers simplified always-on resiliency that extends beyond the switches to empower true end-to-end application availability. Additionally, Horizontal Stacking in the server access layer and lower overall power consumption can lead to energy cost savings, crucial advantages for any enterprise. With Avaya field-proven ability to create networks that are more resilient, needing fewer and less complex elements, the overall network design and build approach of Avaya’s LAN switches help ensure the highest levels of performance are delivered in unison with the highest levels of reliability.

VSP 7000

Avaya Virtual Services Platform (VSP) 7000 provides a cost-effective 10 Gigabit Ethernet fan-out capability for existing core switch deployments. Addressing the pressing need for flexible, high-speed Ethernet connectivity, Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 offers a high-performance switch targeted at the data centre top-of-rack.

Target:

• Basic Top-of-Rack – single switch/dual-attach server • Fibre aggregation – distribution switch or data centre 10G fan-out • ATA-over-Ethernet storage transport

Key features

• Versatile cooling options conforming to established data centre hot/cold aisle arrangements

• Hot-swappable power supplies, fan and pluggable expansion

• Wire-speed hardware guaranteeing high throughput and low latency

• Contiguous multi-element fabric spanning numerous racks is enabled by a unique Multi- Terabit Fabric Interconnect Stack

• Future-ready support for sophisticated virtualisation technologies and high-speed interfaces

VSP 9000

The Virtual Services Platform 9000 is Avaya’s next-generation solution for mission-critical core networks and data centres. The VSP 9000 is built upon proven Ethernet Routing Switch 8800 software, with a fully programmable network processor unit for flexible data forwarding, and Avaya’s carrier-grade Linux. The VSP 9000 is designed to deliver a future-proof, ultra-reliable network that provides services integration, higher 10 Gigabit Ethernet density and simplified and agile virtual network infrastructures.

Key Features and Benefits • Ultra-Resiliency

• Patented Switch Clustering (SMLT/RSMLT)

• Patent-pending Data & Control Plane protection

• Future-proof Platform

• Up to 27Tbps architecture • 240 10GbE ports/chassis • 40/100Gbps ready

• Services Integration

• WLAN 802.11n Split-plane architecture for the unwired Enterprise (future release)

• Application VPNs

• VM MAC (Move, Add, Change) automation within and between Data Centres in ms

• Converged Platform

• Lossless Fabric architecture • Unified fabric ready

Split Plane - Splitting the Control and Data planes into two separate planes results in improved performance and scalability.

Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8800

 A fully-resilient, totally-flexible, and highly-scalable solution that delivers versatile network virtualization, exceptional value and cost-effectiveness, and one of the Industry’s highest 10G Ethernet densities Companies turn to technology to help boost the bottom line and to increase productivity. Technology advances in one area often lead to real challenges in others. Virtualization is a case in point, particularly when it comes to efficiently connecting a myriad of disparate applications and systems – many now virtualized – across multiple locations.

The Avaya ERS 8800 offers multiple options that enable IP Virtual Private Networking solutions across the entire enterprise. Avaya’s Layer 3 virtualization is simple, flexible, and easy to deploy – and doesn’t require adjustments to an existing infrastructure, avoiding additional capital equipment expenditures. Because the solution is standards-based and uses well-understood IP techniques, less training time is required. This can reduce operational costs when compared to the training required for service provider-centric, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) solutions.

Resiliency, intelligence & scalability without design complexity

The ERS 8800 is a proven, tested, resilient, and intelligent network solution that scales, delivering hundreds of Gigabits per second (Gbps) and hundreds of millions of packets per second (Mpps) of real-world performance to the core. This flexible architecture reduces the complexity of network design, making it ideal for large-scale Enterprise Campuses.

What is the Ethernet Routing Switch 8800..?

The ERS 8800...

• is a new solution that consolidates the field-proven reliability of the ERS 8600 with the enhanced virtualized functionality and improved scalability that a new generation of software delivers
• has been developed to match the transition occurring in customer networks: the progressive move to emerging, highly-virtualized networking infrastructures from what was largely a single dimension environment
• is the latest evolution of the venerable ERS 8000 Series: which has already delivered the ERS 8100 Edge Switch, ERS 8300 Edge/Core Switch, and of course the ERS 8600 Core/Edge Switch on which the ERS 8800 is based
• is the go-forward solution for new customers seeking the most reliable and versatile campus LAN core switch, additionally new software helps ensure high levels of investment protection and continuity of service for returning ERS 8600 customers