Passport 8000 Family Enterprise Switch Product Brief
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The Passport 8000 enterprise switch is
available in two form-factors, providing
a high-availability platform for all
applications. The 10-slot Passport 8010
chassis is designed for high-density
wiring closets and backbones needing
the highest levels of availability and
scalability. The 6-slot Passport 8006
chassis is designed for medium-sized
wiring closets and backbones in which
space is at a premium, and lower
density is desired.
The Passport 8100 series Edge Switch
modules are designed for use in the
Passport 8000 chassis for high-density
desktop switching applications in large
networks. While the Passport 8600 series
Routing Switch modules are used in
campus and building backbones where
higher performance, routing, or MAN
connectivity is required (see Table 1).
Key Benefits
High Availability
The Passport 8000 chassis features a
passive switching architecture designed
to provide high availability for a wide
range of supported technologies. Up to
three load-sharing and load-balancing
power supplies can be installed. A fully
loaded chassis is able to operate with
two power supplies providing N+1
power redundancy.
All power supplies can be hot-swapped.
Both AC and DC power supplies are
available, allowing the chassis to be
deployed in both enterprise and service
provider networks. Fan-trays
(dual in the 10-slot chassis) are provided
for cooling, and include hot-swap
capability. The chassis provides
temperature monitoring for power
supplies, fan trays and switch fabrics,
with automated reporting of overheating.
The Passport 8000 switch supports
redundant processor modules, eliminating
single points of failure and providing total
system resilience. Distributed Multi-Link
Trunking (MLT) provides scalable riser,
server, and inter-switch bandwidth, with
the trunk ports distributed across separate
modules. This eliminates the single
point of failure found in many trunking
implementations that terminate on a
single module in the chassis.
Passport 8000 also provides complete
security for the LAN, restricting network
access to authorized users, and controlling
access to departments, servers, and
critical applications. The Passport 8600
features eXpress Classification (XC),
which provides hardware-based filtering
for security and traffic classification, based
on Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 information
in every packet; this allows network managers
to secure the network based on individual
device or user addresses, departmental
subnetworks, or specific applications,
with no performance impact.
Table 1:
Port Densities and Performance for the Passport 8000.
Passport 8100 series
Passport 8600 series
Architecture
Edge Switch Modules
Routing Switch Modules
Switch Capacity
50 Gbps
128 Gbps
(scaling to 100 Gbps in the future) (scaling to 256 Gbps in the future)
Layer 2 switching
24 Mpps
96 Mpps
IP and IPX Routing
N/A
96 Mpps
Gigabit Ethernet ports (fiber and copper)
64
64 (128 in the future)
100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet ports (fiber)
160
192
10/100 Ethernet ports (copper)
384
384
MultiService MAN
N/A
TBA H1 CY2000
