Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 or MERS 8600 is a modular chassis router and/or switch manufactured by
Nortel now acquired by
Ciena. The MERS 8600 supports the
Provider Backbone Bridges
Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB) is a set of architecture and protocols for routing over a provider's network allowing interconnection of multiple provider bridge networks without losing each customer's individually defined VLANs. It was initiall ...
(PBB),
Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technologies and carrier class
Operations Administration & Maintenance (OAM) tools.
Configurable as a 1.440
Terabit Switch cluster using
SMLT and
RSMLT protocols, cluster failover (normally less than 100 millisecond).
BT uses the MERS 8600 PBB/PBT technologies in its
21st Century Network The 21st Century Network (21CN) programme is the data and voice network transformation project, under way since 2004, of the UK telecommunications company BT Group plc. It was intended to move BT's telephone network from the AXE/ System X Public S ...
(21CN) and India has selected this platform for the most extensive IP network ever deployed by an international airport in India.
Mial Chooses Nortel For New Communications Infrastructure At Mumbai’s Chha Trapati Shivaji International Airport
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The MERS 8600 has 3 chassis options
* 8006, 6-slot chassis for backbones of low density or high space premium
* 8010, 10-slot chassis for high availability and high scalability
* 8010CO, 10-slot NEBS-compliant chassis.
The chassis can be configured with one or two CPU modules (8692SF), and is normally configured with two or three load balancing power supplies.
Modules
CPU Modules
* 8692omSF Switch Fabric and CPU 8692 with Expansion Mezzanine card, Supports 50 ms fail-over on NNI trunks with MultiLink Trunking
* 8692omSF Switch Fabric
* 8691 omSF Switch Fabric and CPU Module
10 Gigabit Ethernet
* 8683 XLR, 3 ports 10 Gigabit Ethernet
10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE, 10GbE, or 10 GigE) is a group of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of 10 gigabits per second. It was first defined by the IEEE 802.3ae-2002 standard. Unlike previous Eth ...
XFP (LAN PHY only)
Packet Over SONET
* 8683POSM, POS Baseboard supports up to 6 OC-3 or 3 OC-12 ports
VPN Modules
* 8668 VPN Module
Gigabit Ethernet
* 8630 GBR, 30 ports 1000 BaseX small form factor pluggable interfaces (SX, LX, CWDM, TX)
* 8608GBM, 8-port Gigabit Ethernet, GBIC-based
* 8608GTM, 8 ports 1000BASE-T, fixed Gigabit Ethernet
100/10 Megabit Ethernet
* 8632TXM, 32 ports 10/100 plus 2 GBIC ports
* 8648TXM, 48 10/100TX ports
See also
* Ciena
* Metro Ethernet
* Wavelength-division multiplexing
In fiber-optic communications, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes a number of optical carrier signals onto a single optical fiber by using different wavelengths (i.e., colors) of laser light. This techniq ...
* Provider Backbone Bridges
Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB) is a set of architecture and protocols for routing over a provider's network allowing interconnection of multiple provider bridge networks without losing each customer's individually defined VLANs. It was initiall ...
* Provider Backbone Transport
References
External links
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Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600
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Networking hardware
Nortel products
Nortel protocols