1 — Overview
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Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 WSG Installation Guide, Release 2.0
September 2007
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Hot pluggable hard drives
The platform contains two small form factor hard disk drives. These
drives are configured in a redundant configuration and are hot
pluggable. The hard drives are configured as a RAID 1 type of array,
which means they are mirrored.
Ports
The 8550 WSG contains the following Gigabit Ethernet ports:
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one management port
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one High Availability port
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four Gigabit Ethernet ports for data network connectivity
Management port
The Gigabit Ethernet management port connects to the user
management network. The 8550 WSG Management Portal user
interface is accessible only through this port.
High Availability port
The High Availability port is a Gigabit Ethernet port that is used to link
the two 8550 WSGs to exchange control data and synchronize both
8550 WSGs.
Ethernet ports and port grouping
The 8550 WSG contains four Gigabit Ethernet ports that provide
connectivity from the 8550 WSG to the data network. The four ports
are grouped for redundancy such that there are two active ports and
two standby ports, thereby providing two port interfaces to the
network. The active and standby ports of each port interface have the
same IP address.
Figure
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shows the port groupings and how each port is connected
in a redundant configuration.
Note —
You can use this port to connect to the management interface
and to carry the web service request/response data traffic.
