Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 or MERS 8600 is a modular chassis router and/or switch manufactured by

Nortel Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel), formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in Montreal, Quebec, ...

now acquired by

Ciena Ciena Corporation is an American telecommunications networking equipment and software services supplier based in Hanover, Maryland. The company has been described by ''The Baltimore Sun'' as the "world's biggest player in optical connectivity." ...

. The MERS 8600 supports the Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB),

Provider Backbone Transport Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) is an approved telecommunications networking standard, IEEE 802.1Qay-2009. PBB-TE adapts Ethernet technology to carrier class transport networks. It is based on the layered VLAN tags and MAC-in ...

(PBT) technologies and carrier class Operations Administration & Maintenance (OAM) tools. Configurable as a 1.440

Terabit The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented a ...

Switch cluster using

SMLT Multi-link trunking (MLT) is a link aggregation technology developed at Nortel in 1999. It allows grouping several physical Ethernet links into one logical Ethernet link to provide fault-tolerance and high-speed links between routers, switches, a ...

and

RSMLT Multi-link trunking (MLT) is a link aggregation technology developed at Nortel in 1999. It allows grouping several physical Ethernet links into one logical Ethernet link to provide fault-tolerance and high-speed links between routers, switches, a ...

protocols, cluster failover (normally less than 100 millisecond). BT uses the MERS 8600 PBB/PBT technologies in its 21st Century Network (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
/ref> 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 ...

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 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 techni ...

, 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

References

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