OmniSwitch 6900 | Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Designed for companies needing extremely low latency, compact, non-blocking architecture switches that deliver high-performance, scalable, secure and reliable infrastructure.

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900 virtual chassis capabilities with 1 rack unit design keeps your footprint small – and your management simple, because you can run multiple switches as one. These secure, compact, high density switches are designed to be flexible for the most demanding software-defined operations in virtualized or physical networks.

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Highlights

Meet and exceed the needs of extremely high demand data centre or campus networks
Converge physical and virtualized data centre operations
Provide Autonomous Network with fully automated layer 2 and layer 3 network operations.
Enhance your network security with profile-based segmentation and traffic filtering policies

Features

Advanced L3 routing: VRF, Multicast, IPv4 and IPv6
Data centre deployment with Lossless Ethernet and VXLAN gateway in the hardware
SDN programmable through OVSDB, OpenStack, RESTful API, Python, Ansible.
Zero-touch provisioning and network automation works with any network device that supports widely used standard protocols
Universal Network Profiles and Orchestrated Policy based VM movement
Automatic Fabric creation and Virtual chassis, SPB-M, IP routing protocols

Benefits

High capacity

Has a high interface density and large L2/L3 switching capacity for greater capacity with a lower investment.

Availability

Stays online and operational with power supply redundancy, hot-swappable components, in-service software upgrades and virtual chassis technology.

Simplicity

Provides out-of-the-box deployment and automated provisioning, and lets you set up and manage multiple switches as one.

Flexibility

Offers your choice of cooling direction for placement anywhere.

Network Fabric

Build a single unified network fabric that spans from the top-of-rack of your data centre to the edge of the campus.

Certifications

Models

OS6900-X48C6 – 48 x 10G and 6 x 100G ports
OS6900-T48C6 – 48 x 10G base-T and 6 x 100G ports
OS6900-X48C4E – 40 x 10G, 8 x 25G and 4 x 100G ports with MACsec on all ports
OS6900-V48C8 – 48 x 25G and 8 x 100G ports
OS6900-C32(E) – 32 x 100G ports

OS6900-X20 (20 SFP+)
OS6900-T20 (20 10GBase-T)
OS6900-X72 (48 SFP+ and 6 QSFP)
OS6900-V72 (48 SFP28 and 6 QSFP28)

Supporting Documents

Datasheet

OmniSwitch 6900 Stackable LAN Switches

OmniSwitch 6900 Stackable LAN switches are compact, high-density 10, 25, 40 and 100 GigE platforms.

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Product Line Matrix

OmniSwitch Product Line Matrix Comparison

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Product Line Matrix

OmniSwitch Product Line Matrix Comparison - US Version

Compare all Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitches LAN solutions in this interactive matrix - US Edition

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Brochure

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White paper

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