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Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 Series
Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 Series
The Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 series is a set of premium 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.
Avaya’s industry-leading resilient Stackable Chassis provides high-availability for delay-sensitive and business-critical 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.
Key Features:
- 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 high performance design of Avaya’s Stackable Switches along with their high-speed stack connections (up to 144 Gbps per Switch/1.152 Tbps per Stack) helps to ensure that the Stack scales proportionally as each new unit is added.
- Optimal path forwarding: A bidirectional, multi-path forwarding algorithm between Switches can ensure 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 switching 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 Avaya’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.