Nortel Networks 7400 - Manual (Page 34)

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Customer Profile
Enterprises:
• Medium to large campus networks
- Layer 3 core
- Layer 2/3 distribution
- Layer 2/3 Edge
• Large enterprise metro networks
- Metropolitan inter-campus connectivity
• Real-time and streaming application
infrastructure
• IP Multicasting infrastructure
• Internet Telephony infrastructure
• Legacy 3Com, Cabletron and Lucent customers
• Enterprise wiring closets requiring high-density
edge switching capacity
Vertical Markets:
• Finance
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Education
Multi-Tenant Unit (MTU) and Multi-dwelling
units (MDU) property developers:
• Internet access service infrastructure
• Internet telephony service infrastructure
• Broadcast audio and video service infrastructure
• Video on demand service infrastructure
• Videoconferencing service infrastructure
Service Providers and Carriers:
• Metropolitan and regional Ethernet services
• Optical Ethernet service infrastructure
- Point of Presence
- Central Office
• Internet Data Centre
- L2 though L7
• Disaster Recovery Centre service infrastructure
• Transparent LAN service infrastructure
• Virtual Private Networking service infrastructure
• Managed service - customer premises equipment
• Internal service provider/carrier network
Defining needs
Enterprise Customers:
• Is reliability critical to your business?
• Do you plan to upgrade your existing
Ethernet network?
• Do you plan do migrate your network from
ATM or Token Ring to Ethernet?
• Do you plan to unify your communications
onto one network?
• What are your plans for deploying web
hosting services?
• Do you have mission-critical traffic requiring
prioritisation?
• What are your plans for deploying
Quality of Service?
• What are your plans for deploying
Internet telephony?
Passport 8000
Series Switches
Overview
The Nortel Networks Passport 8000 series delivers high-density, high performance Layer 2 through Layer 7
switching, routing and traffic classification to service providers, carriers and enterprises. The Passport 8000
series is a reliable, secure and intelligent solution that provides exponential increases in bandwidth, revenue
potential and a competitive edge for today's application driven networks. Because it is a modular solution, the
Passport 8000 series is a powerful solution for a variety of network locations, including enterprise wiring
closets, the enterprise network core, as customer premises equipment at the edge of the Metropolitan Area
Network (MAN) or in the Metro Optical Ethernet core. By combining different modules, the Passport 8000
series solution can support multiple access technologies, adapt to network expansion and maintain the
flexibility required for today's networks.