Stackable Gigabit and Multi-Gigabit Ethernet LAN Switch Family
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6560 Stackable Gigabit and Multi-Gigabit Ethernet LAN value switch family is an industry leading campus access solution for enterprise networks. With multi-gigabit ports for high-speed IEEE 802.11ac devices, 10 GigE uplinks and 20 GigE stacking, the OmniSwitch 6560 is the right solution for your next generation network.
Offering a design optimized for flexibility and scalability as well as low power consumption, the OmniSwitch 6560 is an outstanding edge solution. It uses the field-proven Alcatel-Lucent Operating System (AOS) to deliver highly available, secure, self-protective, easily managed and eco-friendly networks.
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6560 family is embedded with the latest technology innovations, and offers maximum investment protection.
Deployments benefiting from the OmniSwitch 6560 family are:
- Edge of small-to-mid-sized networks
- Branch office enterprise and campus workgroups
- Residential and commercially managed services applications
Features
- 24-port and 48-port, PoE and non-PoE with fixed small form factor pluggable (SFP+) 10G interfaces
- Support for 10 GigE stacking or 20 GigE stacking
- Support for IEEE 802.1AE MACSec encryption
- Internal modular AC redundant power supplies
Management
- AOS field-proven software with management through web interface (WebView), command line interface (CLI), and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Ethernet operations, administration and management (OA&M) support for service configuration and monitoring
- Cloud enabled with OmniVista® Cirrus for a secure, resilient and scalable cloud-based network management
- Support by Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista™ 2500 Network Management System (NMS)
Security
- MACSec encryption to secure the network edge: 1G/2.5G user and 10G up-link ports
- Flexible device and user authentication with Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian (IEEE 802.1x/MAC/captive portal) with Host Integrity Check (HIC) enforcement
- Enables deployment of comprehensive and secure BYoD services in enterprise networks such as guest management, device on-boarding, device posturing, application management and dynamic change of authentication (CoA)
- Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) and Access Control Lists (ACLs) for traffic control, including an embedded denial of service (DoS) engine to filter out unwanted traffic attacks
- Extensive support of user-oriented features such as learned port security (LPS), port mapping, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) binding tables and User Network Profile (UNP)
Performance and redundancy
- Advanced layer-2+ features with basic layer-3 routing for both IPv4 and IPv6+
- Triple speed (100/1G/2.5G) user interfaces and fiber interfaces (SFPs) supporting 1000Base-X or 10GBase-X optical transceivers
- 10 G uplinks
- Wire-rate switching and routing performance
- High availability with virtual chassis concept, redundant stacking links, primary/secondary unit failover, hot-swappable power options and configuration rollback
Convergence
- Enhanced Voice over IP (VoIP) and video performance with policy-based QoS
- Future-ready support for multimedia applications with wire-rate multicast
- Airgroup™ Network Services for Bonjour speaking devices provides consistent experience over wireless and wired networks
- IEEE 802.3af, IEEE 802.3at and IEEE802.3bt PoE support for IP phones, wireless LAN (WLAN) access points and video cameras
Benefits
- Meets any customer configuration need and offers excellent investment protection and flexibility, as well as ease of deployment, operation and maintenance
- Provides outstanding performance when supporting real-time voice, data and video applications for converged scalable networks
- Ensures efficient power management, reduces operating expenses (OPEX) and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) through low power consumption and dynamic PoE allocation, which delivers only the power needed by the attached device
- A field-upgradeable solution that makes the network highly available and reduces OPEX
- Fully secures the network at the edge at no additional cost
- Enterprise-wide cost reduction through hardware consolidation to achieve network segmentation and security without additional hardware installation
- Supports cost-effective installation and deployment with automated switch setup and configuration and end-to-end virtual LAN (VLAN) provisioning
- OmniVista® Cirrus powers a secure, resilient and scalable cloud-based network management
It offers hassle free network deployment and easy service rollout with advanced analytics for smarter decision making. IT friendly Unified Access with secure authentication and policy enforcement for users and devices.
