Nortel Passport 8608SXE, Passport 8624FXE Brochure
Nortel Passport 8608SXE, a high-performance routing switch, offers advanced capabilities for enterprise networks. With wire-speed switching and routing, it delivers reliable connectivity and efficient data transmission. Its Gigabit Ethernet ports enable fast data transfer, while QoS features optimize network traffic for smooth multimedia and VoIP applications. The Passport 8608SXE also provides robust security features like access control lists and VPN support, ensuring data protection and privacy. It's an ideal solution for businesses seeking a scalable and secure networking infrastructure.
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Product Brief
Intelligent Internet
Nortel Networks
Alteon Web
Switching Module
Alteon WSM Benefits
• Combines the port density and connectivity of the Passport 8600 modular switch with awardwinning Alteon Web
Switching technology
• Provides Local and Global Server
Load Balancing and health checks, to optimize existing server infrastructure and minimize costs
• Enables Firewall and VPN Load
Balancing, which can run simultaneously with server load balancing, for economical security deployments without bottlenecks
• Delivers Content Intelligent
Switching and session-level persistence to maximize profitability while minimizing infrastructure impact
Switching in the Web data center demands a unique set of capabilities, due to the time-sensitive nature of accessing
Web content. A Web Switch must be able to quickly handle an enormous number of sessions, while ensuring that the Web servers it is connected to are topologically close to the user, healthy, and able to fulfill the users’ request in the least possible time.
It must balance the load coming into the servers, firewalls, or VPNs. The Web
Switch must protect the servers against
Denial-of-Service attacks, overloaded
Intrusion Detection servers and flash crowds. It must ensure persistence, to eliminate e-commerce pitfalls like broken shopping carts and Web forms, while remaining easy to deploy. And a Web
Switch must enable new traffic types, including streaming media and wireless.
Introducing Nortel Networks Alteon Web
Switching Module (WSM). The WSM brings all the capabilities of Alteon’s awardwinning stackable Web Switches to a modular format that is affordable, scalable, and easy to customize for every users’ unique needs. The combination of the
Alteon WSM and Nortel’s Passport 8600 creates a complete, high capacity, carrierclass switching system of unprecedented scale. Service providers, hosters, content providers, e-businesses and enterprises can now get state-of-the-art Web OS Traffic
Management while aggregating large numbers of 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections to servers, routers, firewalls, and caches.
Unique Distributed
Processing Architecture
Delivers Performance and Scalability
Leading the industry, the Alteon WSM enables the processing of entire Web sessions at blazing speeds using Layer 4 through 7 information such as TCP port numbers, URLs, HTTP headers, and
HTTP cookies. New capabilities also enable the WSM to support Layer 7 regular expression, and to perform switching based on a combination of Layer
7 attributes, such as URL plus host header,
URL plus cookie, or cookie plus host header. Each Alteon WSM can process up to 296,000 sessions per second per module through the use of Nortel Networks nextgeneration Alteon network processing
ASIC, the WebIC
TM
. Performance is scalable up to 2.4 million sessions per second. The Alteon WSM features 10 purpose-built WebICs, 20 RISC processors, and 80MB of memory for processing session traffic. For data centers performing even more compute-intensive tasks, such as the decryption and encryption of SSL traffic, the Alteon WSM is easily integrated with Nortel Networks' revolutionary
Alteon Integrated Service Director
(iSD) platform.
Alteon WEB OS –
The Industry-Leading
Traffic and Application
Control Software
The Alteon WSM supports all of Nortel
Networks best-in class Alteon Web OS applications. Server Load Balancing optimizes existing servers, enables transparent additions, and features linear performance increases as more servers are added. Firewall Load Balancing extends these benefits to firewalls as well, while comprehensive health checking ensures that all devices are operating at peak efficiency. Web Cache Redirection enables the use of transparent Web caches wherever possible, and improves performance by moving them out of the data path.
Innovative Content Intelligent Switching allows traffic management based on content attributes including HTTP headers, HTTP cookies, and URLs as well as combinations of them, enabling sessionlevel persistence, virtual hosting, and the best use of resources. Bandwidth
Management features enable the creation of guaranteed or preferential bandwidth services based on Layer 7 attributes, while
Global Server Load Balancing directs the user to mirrored content. Unlike competing products, the most current Web
OS software release is offered simultaneously on both the stackable and modular product lines. This brings the WSM all the benefits of a Web OS field-hardened in over 10,000 customer sites.
The Alteon WSM also adds unique features to enable new, highly profitable services. One such service opportunity is streaming media using Real Time
Streaming Protocol, or RTSP. The Alteon
WSM is able to intelligently switch both the control and media sessions to the same
RTSP server or cache, and maintain session level persistence. Another service opportunity can be seen in the widespread popularity of wireless Internet access.
The Alteon WSM is able to intelligently load balance WAP gateway servers, adding scalability, reliability, health checks and unparalleled persistence to wireless operations.
Web OS also provides the functionality to assist in intrusion detection system scalability, performance and availability.
Intrusion Detection Server load balancing allows multiple intrusion detection servers to operate in parallel and ensures that all sessions entries are maintained and sent to the same ID server. This solves the inherit limitations of Intrusion Detection Systems, which include lack of scalability and throughput, by ensuring server availability and persistency via health checking and sophisticated redirection filters.
The Nortel Networks
Passport 8600
Nortel Networks Passport 8600 Routing
Switch provides wire-speed switching and routing with carrier grade reliability. It is a key component of the Nortel Networks
Optical Ethernet solution delivering
Gigabit Ethernet performance and Quality of Service (QoS) for business critical applications and services such as Internet
Telephony. The Passport 8600 provides
128 Gbps of switching capacity, a variety of 10/100, Gigabit Ethernet, Packet over
SONET and ATM ports, and a high performance infrastructure for flexible routing and switching.
Features
The Alteon WSM is an integrated Web
Switch blade with 4 external, non-blocking
Web Switching multi-speed ports, available with both 1000BASE-SX and RJ-45
10/100BASE-T connections. The blade is managed from within the 8600 operating environment, while a maintenance port provides additional debugging capability.
The blade occupies one I/O slot in the
8600, and up to eight can be installed in a single system.
High Availability
The Alteon WSM is designed to enable a highly available data center with no single point of failure. Central to that design is the use of the Virtual Router Redundancy
Protocol (RFC 2338), ensuring fast failover in the event of failure. The Alteon WSM can operate in active/active, active/standby, and hot standby modes to ensure non-stop operations while providing parallel processing of Web traffic. The 8600 platform also offers a long list of carrier grade features, including redundant fabrics with sub-second failover, redundant CPUs, redundant power, and a CO grade chassis.
Low Cost of Ownership
The combination of the Alteon WSM with the Passport 8600 provides the content-intelligent switching capabilities that customers need with the high density, best-in-class Layer 2/3 routing and switching features that they demand. The combination provides a solution that reduces cost, decreases complexity, saves rack space, and increases performance and scalability.
The Ultimate in Flexibility for QoS - Filters,
Prioritization, and
Policy Setting
The Alteon WSM features a powerful policy engine that is the basis for capabilities including access control lists that support filtering, network address translation, QoS tagging and traffic redirection/policy routing. Since Layer 4-7 filtering is done on a session basis, instead of packet-by-packet, the Alteon WSM delivers unrivaled filtering performance.
Applications
Load Balancing and Web
Intelligent Switching in the
Data Center
The Alteon WSM provides a wealth of benefits in the data center. In addition to load balancing local and global servers, firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion Detection
Servers and other devices, the Alteon
WSM also features Layer 4 delayed binding to protect Web sites from Denialof-Service attacks. Web intelligent switching features direct users’ requests based on a combination of Layer 7 attributes, while the unique cookie insert mode enhances session-level persistence without requiring any server configuration changes. Customers can offer preferential services and enforce SLAs based on the
Alteon WSM’s bandwidth management capabilities. And the Alteon WSM also supports Web Cache Redirection (WCR) to transparently redirect user requests to cached content wherever possible, optimizing response time.
Load Balancing for Streaming
Media Applications
For Web sites using streaming media, the
Alteon WSM’s innovative RTSP Server load balancing features allows the switch to associate an RTSP request with a streaming media session and assigns it to the most appropriate server or cache based on configured load balancing metrics. This feature is of particular value to customers who want to offer live broadcasts, distance learning, or revenue-generating services like
“pay per view.”
Load Balancing for
Wireless Operators
The Alteon WSM’s sophisticated mechanisms direct and redirect traffic to appropriate wireless gateways and content servers to maintain high availability, improve scalability and offer persistence for wireless applications
Provide Security
Without Slowdown
The Alteon WSM features a variety of capabilities designed to enhance Web site security while optimizing performance.
Firewall Load Balancing, which can operate simultaneously with Server Load
Balancing, ensures that traffic speeds through firewalls. Intrusion Detection
Server Load Balancing enables the use of this additional vital security measure without creating a slowdown or single point of failure. And Layer 4 delayed binding protects servers from Denial-of-
Service attacks by not completing the connection until the client has responded to session setup.
Great Reasons to Choose the Passport 8000
Routing Switch
Comprehensive LAN/MAN
Support
The Passport 8000 Routing Switch offers a variety of LAN technologies including
10/100 Mbps and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. MAN technologies include
Packet over SONET (PoS), ATM and
Extended Gigabit Ethernet.
Highly Redundant Solution
The Passport 8000 is redundant at multiple layers. Physical redundancy is accomplished with N+1 redundant power supplies, hot swappable modules and dual fan trays. Trunk level redundancy is accomplished with Distributed Multi-Link
Trunking. Routing redundancy is accomplished with Virtual Routing Redundancy
Protocol (VRRP) and Equal Cost Multi-
Path Routing (ECMP), available in a future release.
Technical Specifications
Environment Specifications
• Operating temperature
5º to 40º C
• Storage temperature
-25º to 70º C
• Operating humidity
85% maximum relative humidity, non-condensing
• Storage humidity
95% maximum relative humidity, non-condensing
• Operating altitude
10,000 ft (3,000 m) maximum
• Storage altitude
10,000 ft (3.000 m) maximum
• Free Fall/Drop
ISO 4180-s, NSTA 1A
• Vibration
IEC 68-2-6/34
• Shock/Bump
IEC 68-2-27-29
Physical Specifications
• Height:
1.5 inches (3.8 cm)
• Width:
15.4 inches (39.1 cm)
• Depth:
18.5 includes (47.0 cm)
• Weight (single module)
10 lbs approximate
Performance Specifications
• Mean Time Between Failure
(MBTF): 80,000hrs
• Frame Length
9k (for WSM to WSM traffic) and
1.9k through the 8600
Ordering Information
Order Number
DS1404045
DS1402001
DS1402002
DS1405002
DS1405?01**
DS1404001
DS1404035
DS1404037
DS1404011
DS1404044
DS 1404036
DS1404038
DS1304008
DS1404043
AA1419001
AA1419002
AA1419003
AA1419004
DS1333001
DS1333002
DS1333003
DS1333004
DS1304004
DS1304005
DS1304006
DS1304007
DS1410003-3.1.2
DS1410005-1.1
Product Name
Alteon L4-7 WSM
Passport 8010
Passport 8006
Passport 8002PS
Passport 8001PS
Passport 8690SF
Passport 8648TXE
Passport 8624FXE
Passport 8616SXE
Passport 8608GTE
Passport 8608SXE
Passport 8608GBE
Passport 8672
Passport 8683POSE
1000BASE-SX GBIC
1000BASE-LX GBIC
1000BASE-XD GBIC
1000BASE-ZX GBIC
Description
4 port 1000Base SX/10BASE-T/100BASE-TX
10-slot chassis includes dual backplane and two fan trays
6-slot chasses includes dual backplane and one fan tray
48V DC Power Supply
100-240 VAC Power Supply
Routing Switch, Switch Fabric/CPU module
48 port autosensing 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet Routing Switch Module (RJ-45)
24-port 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet Routing Switch module (MT-RJ)
16-port 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet Routing Switch module (SC)
8-port 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Routing Switch module (RF-45
8-port 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet Routing switch module (SC)
8-port Gigabit Ethernet Routing Switch module. Requires one or more GBICs
ATME 2-slot MDA Baseboard. Supports up to eight OC-3 or two OC-12 ports
3-slot MDA Baseboard. Supports up to six OC-3 or three OC-12 ports
1-port 1000Base-SX GBIC for MultiMode fiber (SC)
1-port 1000Base-LX GBIC for MultiMode and SingleMode fiber (SC)
1-port 1000Base-XD GBIC for SingleMode fiber up to 50 km(SC)
1-port 1000Base-ZX GBIC for SingleMode fiber up to 70 km(SC)
1-port OC-12c MDA for MultiMode SONET media for 8683POS baseboard (RJ-45)
1-port OC-12c MDA for SingleMode SONET media for 8683POS baseboard (RJ-45)
2-port OC-3 MDA for MultiMode SONET media for 8683 baseboard (RJ-45)
2-port OC-3 MDA for SingleMode SONET media for 8683POS baseboard (RJ-45)
1-port OC-12 MDA for MultiMode fiber for 8672ATM baseboard (SC)
1-port OC-12 MDA for SingleMode fiber for 8672ATM baseboard (SC)
4-port OC-3c MDA for MultiMode fiber for 8672ATM baseboard (MT-RJ))
4-port OC-3c MDA for SingleMode fiber for 8672ATM baseboard (MT-RJ)
Software for the Passport 8600 Routing Switch
Nortel Networks Optivity Switch Manager v1.1 Software to support Passport 8600
(requires v3.0 software)
**The seventh character (?) of the SC Power Supply order number MUST be replaced with the proper code to indicate desired product nationalization: “A” – No power cord included. “B” – European “Schuko” power cord common in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. “C” – Power cord commonly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland. “D” – Power cord commonly used in Japan. “E” – North American power cord. “F” – Australian power cord, also commonly used in
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