OmniSwitch 6920 High Performance Switch for Data Centers
Designed for AI/HPC data centers and scalable campus networks, this high performance switch supports advanced OmniFabric architecture.
As data centers evolve to support High performance campus, the demand for high-density 400G switching has never been greater. The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch® 6920-D32 meets this challenge head-on. This compact 1RU platform delivers Layer-2 and Layer-3 performance with ultra-low latency, offering 32 × 400G ports within an energy-efficient, high-density design. Engineered for Core LAN and Data Center environments, it provides the scalability and throughput required for most demanding workloads.
Versatile and robust, the OmniSwitch 6920-D32 can serve as a spine, super-spine, or border-leaf switch, enabling flexible fabric architectures. With support for RoCEv2 and Priority Flow Control, it ensures fully lossless transport—ideal for storage-intensive and real-time applications. The platform is officially certified for Microsoft Azure Local, ensuring seamless integration with hybrid and edge environments. Additionally, ALE’s industry-proven Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) implementation powers a resilient, scalable fabric for multi-tenancy and advanced VPN services.
Highlights
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6920-D32 addresses the connectivity demand for high-density
- Outstanding performance when supporting real-time voice, data, storage, and video applications for converged scalable networks, with high port density
in 1RU form factor. - Simple, scalable & resilient fabric with fast convergence & consistent performance.
- RoCEv2 & PFC is enabling high-performance computing with guaranteed lossless operation.
- Enhance your network security with Secure boot for trusted operations.
Features
- Ultra-high-density 400G performance: Delivers 32 × QSFP-DD ports supporting 10/25/50/100/200/400G breakouts, providing massive throughput and ultra-low-latency L2/L3 switching in a compact 1RU form factor.
- Simplified, modern network management: Offers RESTful APIs, scriptable Python/Bash CLI, WebView GUI, full SNMP support, and automated file and logging tools for streamlined, flexible operations.
- High availability and resilient fabric design: Ensures nonstop service with redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fans, Ethernet Ring Protection, advanced spanning tree options, link aggregation, VRRP, BFD, and integrated CPU protection.
- Data center fabric–ready architecture: Supports SPB-M virtualization and RoCEv2/PFC for fully lossless fabrics, enabling scalable multi-tenant networks and high-performance east-west data center workloads.
- Advanced security and access control: Provides strong protection through TACACS+/RADIUS/LDAP authentication, MAC lockdown, ACL-based flow filtering, DHCP/ARP security, and IP source filtering.
- Intelligent QoS for deterministic performance: Guarantees priority for critical applications with hardware queues, flow-based QoS, traffic policing, egress shaping, VOQ, and support for RoCEv2 and PFC.
- Comprehensive IPv4/IPv6 routing and multicast support: Delivers a full routing suite—including OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, VRF, GRE tunneling, DHCP servers, and PIM/IGMP/MLD multicast—for scalable enterprise and data center networks.
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