Product Brief
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Resilient, high-performance premium switching for the Edge, Aggregation or small Core
The Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch
5000 Series is a set of high-performance
Stackable LAN Switches providing the resiliency, security and convergence readiness required for today’s high-end
Wiring Closets, high-capacity Data
Centers and smaller Core environments.
Nortel’s industry-leading resilient
Stacking technology provides high-availability for delay-sensitive and businesscritical data and voice applications. Up to eight Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 units can form a resilient Stacked solution, manageable as a single entity, of up to 400 ports, with maximized uptime even if an individual Switch within the
Stack should fail.
Scalable, resilient and flexible Ethernet Switching
Recognizing that networking requirements vary from business to business — with differing needs at the Edge, Core and Distribution Layer, Nortel offers the highly flexible Ethernet Routing
Switch 5000 Series (ERS 5000); encompassing the original 5500 models and the new 5600 models, combining to offer a versatile portfolio of ten models.
This provides Enterprises the ability to choose the model that best fits their networking requirements (see Table 1 for details).
The ERS 5000 Series features 100% cross-portfolio Stacking compatibility.
The original ERS 5500 models feature a
Stacking capacity of 80Gbps per Switch and up to 640Gbps for a full Stack of eight Switches, and the new ERS 5600 models introduce an enhanced Stacking capacity of 144Gbps per Switch and
1.152Tbps for a full Stack. This is unprecedented in the Industry and ensures optimal performance for delaysensitive application traffic traversing the Stack.
Table 1. Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Model
ERS 5510-24T
Link and uplink ports
24 x 1000BASE-T, including 2 x Combo 1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP
ERS 5510-48T
ERS 5520-24T-PWR
ERS 5520-48T-PWR
ERS 5530-24TFD
ERS 5632FD
ERS 5650TD
ERS 5650TD-PWR
ERS 5698-TFD
ERS 5698TFD-PWR
48 x 1000BASE-T, including 2 x Combo 1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP
24 x 1000BASE-T with Power-over-Ethernet, including 4 x Combo
1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP
48 x 1000BASE-T with Power-over-Ethernet, including 4 x Combo
1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP
24 x 1000BASE-T, including 12 x Combo 1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP, plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
24 x 100/1000BASE-SFP plus 8 x 10GBASE-XFP
48 x 1000BASE-T plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
48 x 1000BASE-T with Power-over-Ethernet plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
96 x 1000BASE-T, including 6 x Combo 1000BASE-T or
100/1000BASE-SFP, plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
96 x 1000BASE-T with Power-over-Ethernet, including 6 x Combo
1000BASE-T or 100/1000BASE-SFP, plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series
Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 Series
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Nortel’s innovative, resilient Stackable architecture
Nortel has continued to evolve and perfect its Enterprise Stackable portfolio into a truly resilient, high-performance
Stacking solution. Nortel’s Ethernet
Routing Switch 2500, 4500, and 5500 and 5600 product lines all incorporate key capabilities designed to deliver a
‘Stackable Chassis’ solution, including:
• Ease of growth/management:
Extending capacity is easy; simply cable a new unit into the Stack, and the Stack configuration is automatically updated.
The Stack acts as a single entity that can be managed via a single IP Address.
• Scalable performance: The highperformance design of Nortel’s
Stackable Switches along with their high-speed Stack connections (up to
144Gbps per Switch/1.152Tbps per
Stack) ensure that the Stack scales proportionally as each new unit is added.
• Optimal path forwarding: A bidirectional, multi-path forwarding algorithm between Switches ensures that the shortest, most optimal path is chosen for each flow of traffic. This design offers a clear performance advantage over the basic logical Ring or Token approaches used by other vendors.
• No single point of failure: Stack operation is unaffected by the failure of any unit in the Stack. Each unit’s independent Switch Fabric along with distributed, redundant power ensures continuous operation of the Stack.
Individual Stack units can easily be replaced — i.e., a ‘virtual hot-swap’ capability — without impacting Stack operations (a feature known as ‘Auto-
Unit Replacement’).
• Switch Clustering: Switch Clustering
(based on Nortel’s SMLT technology) can be enabled on the ERS 5000 Series to enhance overall resiliency of the
Stack solution, providing load-balancing and sub-second failover.
ERS 5600 Switches can be Stacked with one another or with any Ethernet
Routing Switch 5500 unit, and when connected to an adjacent ERS 5500, the
ERS 5600 automatically adjusts to the
ERS 5500’s Stack bandwidth of 80Gbps.
This enhanced flexibility provides the opportunity to mix and match port configurations based on operations needs, while preserving any existing ERS 5500 investments.
ERS 5000 models come with two in-built auto-sensing Stacking connections — implementing sophisticated
Queuing — for simple, cost-effective and efficient Stacking. This design frees uplink ports for dedicated connectivity to the backbone. The ERS 5000’s highperformance architecture guarantees optimized throughput across Ports,
Uplinks and Stacking connectors.
Ethernet Routing Switch
5000 deployment scenarios
Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 is a flexible solution that can be deployed in a variety of Enterprise environments. These include:
High-density Wiring Closet
With its non-blocking design, highdensity GbE and integrated 10GbE port options, the Ethernet Routing Switch
5000 Series is perfectly suited as a Wiring
Closet solution for high-availability LAN edge User connectivity. Up to eight ERS
5000 Switches can be combined into a single Stack with each ERS 5600 unit providing two 10GbE XFP ports for high-capacity uplinks to the Core or aggregation layers of the network. ERS
5698 models provide even greater cost, space and energy efficiency with their ultra-dense Gigabit-to-the-Desktop capacity and the added flexibility of up to 6 SFP ports per Switch for long-reach fiber optic connections. With the ability to support Power-over-Ethernet across all its ports, the ERS 5000 Series is an effective and flexible Wiring Closet/
Edge solution in support of Desktop and powered devices.
High-performance Data Center edge
The high-performance, low-latency and high-availability requirements of the modern Data Center make the ERS
5000 Series a perfect solution for Server access and consolidation. By utilizing the ERS 5000’s innovative ‘Horizontal
Stacking’ capability — a Switch at the top of each Server rack, Stacked ‘horizontally’ — the ERS 5000 Series can support cost-effective, high-density
Server connections. Up to 400 Gigabit ports and multiple 10GbE uplinks per
Stack can be deployed in this manner
(see Figure 1).
DMLT to Core/Distribution
DMLT to Core/Distribution
IST
Figure 1. Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 in Horizontal
Stacking/Data Center application
Trunks distributed between Switches in a Stack
Ethernet Routing
Switch 2500
New features for the v6.1 Release
The following new features and enhancements have been added to the
ERS 5000 Series capabilities with the release of v6.1 Operating System software:
• Nortel Automatic QoS
Ethernet Routing
Switch 5632FD
Trunks distributed between
Switches in a Cluster
Switch Cluster
Figure 2. Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series in a small Core application, with ERS 2500 or 4500 Series Switches at the Edge delivering resiliency and efficiency
• Stack Health Check
• 802.1X Dynamic Authorization
Extensions to RADIUS (RFC 3567)
• T1 Ethernet over TDM SFP Transceiver
• Traffic-based Broadcast and Multicast
Storm Control
• De-Licensing IPFIX
• And more than 30 additional Operability features and enhancements
Nortel’s Switch Cluster solution can further enhance overall resiliency through the addition of a second horizontally-Stacked ‘Top-of-Rack’
Switch. Connected Servers can then be
‘dual-homed’ to separate Stacks of ERS
5000 Switches, which in turn appear as a single, logical Switch to the rest of the network. This enables active-active connections, load-balancing and subsecond failover across the Stacks. These features make the ERS 5000 Series a truly cost-effective Data Center solution that combines always-on resiliency with high-performance connectivity.
Highly scalable small Core
The Ethernet Routing Switch 5000
Series can also serve as a highperforming, feature-rich small Core solution. With high-density 10GbE and
SFP ports (up to 64 10GbE and 192 SFP ports per Stack), the ERS 5530-24TFD and 5632FD models are particularly well-suited to small Core applications.
Coupled with dynamic routing protocol support (RIP/OSPF) – and fieldreplaceable, redundant power in the
5600 models — the ERS 5000 Series can provide low-cost, resilient small
Core solutions.
The ERS 5000 Series can further act as a Switch Cluster supporting other
ERS 2500, 4500 or third-party access
Switches (see Figure 2) using Nortel’s
Switch Clustering technology (SMLT).
ERS 5000s in this configuration can provide up to 800 ports and over 2.3
Terabits of always-on performance — while enabling full use of all Switches and links across the network.
Convergence-ready capabilities
Power-over-Ethernet
The Ethernet Routing Switch 5520-
24T-PWR, 5520-48T-PWR, 5650TD-
PWR and 5698TFD-PWR models provide standards-based Power-over-
Ethernet (PoE) and are designed to power devices such as IP Phones, Wireless
Access Points, IP CCTV Cameras, security and lighting devices, and access control devices such as badge readers.
Full interoperability with all Standardsbased equipment means these Switches have the flexibility to power devices from any vendors; ERS 5000 Switches can supply up to 15.4 Watts per port, as defined in the IEEE 802.3af Standard.
Link Layer Discovery Protocol and
Auto Detection/Auto Configuration
The Ethernet Routing Switch 5000
Series combines the functionality of the
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and Auto Detection/Auto Configuration
(ADAC) to detect and configure Nortel
IP Phones. The implementation includes the Location Type-Length-Value (TLV)
Only Nortel’s Industry-leading resilient ‘FAST’ architecture delivers the high-availability crucial for delay-sensitive and business-critical data, voice and video.
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which provides a mechanism to enable
Emergency Location Services for IP
Phones (for example, ‘Enhanced 911’).
Auto-discovery is extended with Media
Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED) to automatically perform power and
VLAN assignments for enabled devices.
Nortel further extends the use of this protocol by coupling it with the ability to automatically configure Qualityof-Service (QoS) settings and VLAN membership when a Nortel IP Phone is detected. This ensures fast and easy IP
Phone deployments across the network.
Nortel Automatic QoS
With Nortel Automatic QoS, an ERS
5000 Series Switch supporting a Nortel
Unified Communications solution automatically recognizes the special, private Differentiated Service Code
Point (DSCP) values configurable for these applications, and optimizes the management of Egress Queues. Without this automated functionality, Operators would need to have detailed knowledge of how QoS works, and also the private DSCP values, to attempt manual configuration for optimized Queue operation. This feature ensures that the process is automated and optimized, and protects against mis-configuration.
Dynamic and Granular QoS
The ERS 5000 Series features advanced
ASIC designs enabling fined-grained control of the QoS Egress Queues.
This has benefits in deployments where changes to Queue settings need to be made in order to optimize how the network supports specific application behavior. Being able to make on-thefly changes to Queue management, without the need for a reset, dramatically enhances the practical effectiveness of the network. And ERS 5600 models further extend these capabilities by supporting granular Egress Queue
Shaping, in addition to Shaping at the port level.
Resilient operations — redundant power and auto-unit replacement
Field-replaceable Power Supplies
The Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 models support integrated AC or DC power supplies for improved redundancy and uptime. The 5632FD and
5650TD models support two and ERS
5698TFD models support three integrated, field-replaceable supplies. This power supply design offers not only
N+1 power redundancy and/or supplementary PoE power, but also provides savings in valuable rack space and reduction in overall system, servicing and sparing costs.
The ERS 5500 models support the external Redundant Power Supply 15 solution, providing a similar capability for power redundancy and/or supplementary PoE power, although requiring additional real estate within the rack.
Automatic Unit Replacement
The Ethernet Routing Switch 5000
Series supports Automatic Unit
Replacement (AUR), a virtual hot-swap functionality that allows Engineers to quickly and easily replace failed units in the Stack. When a unit is replaced, the configuration and software image are automatically synchronized with that saved by the Stack Base Unit for the failed Switch. This minimizes manual intervention as well as any interruption to neighboring Users within the Stack.
The ERS 5000 Series also supports the ability to load a software image into the
Base Unit of the Stack and have it automatically propagated to other Switches in the Stack; this further simplifies Stack management.
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The ‘Nortel Edge’
Through embedding functionality within its converged networking solutions, Nortel is creating a new operational paradigm built around synergistic, communications-enabled networking and simplicity of design. The ‘Nortel Edge’ focuses on ensuring that the network is easy to deploy and adds an intelligence that reduces the burden of ongoing manageability, delivering additional benefits to businesses.
Real-time application environments require network intelligence and QoS, which allows the network to understand what to do with high-priority traffic in times of network congestion. However, the configuration of QoS across the network can be time-consuming and if incorrectly executed, leads to a sub-standard solution for high-priority traffic. Nortel data, voice and application products can be enabled for optimized QoS across the network though the Nortel Automatic QoS feature.
Enabling the Automatic QoS functionality seamlessly configures QoS on Nortel IP Phones, Call Servers and Applications, and Ethernet
Switches. This allows network managers to easily configure QoS across a Nortel converged infrastructure through a few simple commands or a single click of the mouse — delivering a consistent and optimized QoS configuration. Delivering simple and effective optimization for end-to-end application performance; a tangible manifestation of genuine business benefits of Nortel.
Features
10/100/1000 ports
GbE SFP ports
10Gbps XFP ports
Power-over-Ethernet
Resilient FAST architecture
Stack capacity
Number of Switches supported by an RPS 15
Module
Number of AC or DC
Modular Supplies
Table 2. Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series model comparisons
ERS 5510
24 / 48
2
—
—
Yes
640Gbps
ERS 5520-PWR ERS 5530
24 / 48
4
—
24 / 48
Yes
640Gbps
24 (12 Combo)
12 Combo
2
—
Yes
640Gbps
ERS 5650
48
—
2
48
(5650TD-PWR)
Yes
1.152Tbps
ERS 5698
96 (6 Combo)
6 Combo
2
96
(5698TFD-PWR)
Yes
1.152Tbps
ERS 5632
—
24
8
—
Yes
1.152Tbps
Up to 4 1 1 — — —
Typical deployments
—
Desktop
Connectivity and Server
Aggregation
—
Desktop
Connectivity, PoE for Convergence
Devices
—
Small Core and Server
Aggregation
Up to 2 Up to 3 Up to 2
Desktop
Connectivity with optional
PoE and Server
Aggregation
Desktop
Connectivity with optional PoE
Small Core and Fiber
Aggregation
Security for safeguarding the network
Protecting the network against both external and increasingly prevalent internal attacks is a critical part of every
IT Manager’s job.
The ability to do this requires simpleto-manage, yet intelligent context-aware security solutions that not only look at the identity of the person logging in, but also at the device connecting into the network. This network access control approach ensures that only authorized individuals and properly scanned/secured devices are allowed to join the network.
Nortel’s Secure Network Access
Secure Network Access (SNA) —
Nortel’s endpoint security and policy compliance solution — inspects, assesses, ensures compliance to policy, and remediates at the network endpoint source, prior to network access.
Nortel’s SNA dramatically simplifies the complexity of Enterprise network access architectures with a solution that assures endpoint security compliance. Nortel
SNA provides this security through seamless device quarantine and containment, remediation and repair for LAN
Users and remote Users, and both fixed and mobile connectivity devices.
Network Access Control through
802.1X-based authentication
The Ethernet Routing Switch 5000
Series fully supports the IEEE 802.1X
Extensible Authentication Protocol
(EAP)-based security features, which control access to the network based on
User credentials. A User is required to
‘login’ to the network using a username/ password, and a database is maintained on a centralized Authentication Server, for example RADIUS, which can itself proxy to other directory services such as
LDAP and Active Directory.
The Ethernet Routing Switch 5000
Series also supports MAC Address-based security, which allows authentication of all access devices; network access is granted or denied via specific MAC
Address identification. The ERS 5000
Series also supports a Guest VLAN capability.
Additionally, for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) deployments where the PC connects to the network through a VoIP handset, both the PC and the IP device are authenticated individually.
Directed Attack protection
The ERS 5000 Series supports a set of security features designed to protect against directed attacks. These include
Dynamic Host Control Protocol
(DHCP) Snooping, Dynamic Address
Resolution Protocol Inspection, IP
Source Guard and IGMP Snooping.
Together, these protect against the most common snooping and man-in-the middle attacks that might otherwise compromise the network.
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Simplified management
A Stack of Ethernet Routing Switch 5000
Switches can be managed as a single entity through one IP Address, simplifying network management.
The ERS 5000 Series offers the highest level of secure management with features including Secure Shell (SSH), IP
Manager Lists, RADIUS and TACACS+
Authentication, Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv3), and
Nortel’s Secure Network Access.
Many-to-Many Port Mirroring
The new ERS 5600 models introduce support for many-to-many port mirroring to address enhanced control and visibility in complex, converged networks. This feature provides the ability to have multiple instances (up to four) of many-to-one port mirroring, and flows to be captured simultaneously to traffic analyzers, call recorders, IDS/
IPS devices, etc.
Dual Image support
The ERS 5000 Series supports dual agent images 1 . This allows an Administrator to download a newer image to the Switch/
Stack, and specify when the unit should reboot to take the new image, and even after a new image is installed and running, the Administrator still has the ability to ‘roll back’ to the previous image.
Advanced Management features
BootP and TFTP support allows centralized Switch IP Address assignment, software upgrades and SNMP agent updates over the network.
The RADIUS-based security feature authenticates local console and
TELNET logins.
IPv6 Management
The ERS 5000 Series supports either
IPv4 or IPv6-based management. Simply select whether the Switch/Stack should be managed via IPv4 or IPv6, enter the
Switch/Stack IP Address in the correct format, and the appropriate management paradigm becomes operational.
Lifetime warranty
All Nortel Ethernet Routing Switches include a lifetime warranty. A Nortel product hardware warranty is supported for as long as the original End User continues to operate the product, and this include fans and power supplies. In the event of product discontinuation,
Nortel warranties that support will be available for up to five (5) years.
Summary
The reliability benefits from modular power supplies coupled with advanced security, QoS and Layer 3 functionality make the Ethernet Routing Switch
5000 Series a highly effective premium high-performance solution for Wiring
Closets, high-speed Aggregation and
Data Centers, Server Farms and small
Core installations.
With more than 100 years in telecommunications, Nortel is uniquely positioned to help your business reduce costs by combining voice and data into an integrated system. The Ethernet
Routing Switch 5000 Series, along with other Nortel products, can increase profitability, streamline business operations, increase productivity and help gain a competitive edge.
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Dual Agent functionality is not available on the ERS 5510 models.
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