Riverstone Networks 6850 User Manual
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8 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 6850
HIGH AVAILABILITY
The OmniSwitch 6850s virtual chassis minimizes network downtime, reduces
operational complexity and cost and increases availability for mission-critical
applications by removing single points of failure.
The OS6850s resiliency is provided through a superior architecture offering
physical and functional redundancy everywhere:
P ro d u c t f e a t u re s a n d b e n e f i t s
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Virtual chassis that provides management functionality and automatic election of
primary and secondary managers
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Redundant backup power supplies
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Fault tolerant loop stacking
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Hot swappable chassis, power supplies, SFPs and XFPs
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Image rollback to automatically re-load previous configurations and software versions
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Hitless loading of optional advanced routing software without re-booting