Product Brief
Passport 8683 Packet-over-SONET (PoS)
Routing Switch Module
Bandwidth-hungry applications are
generating an increasing amount of
Wide Area Network (WAN) traffic.
The Nortel Networks* Passport* 8683
Packet-over-SONET (PoS) Routing
Switch module offers a backbone
architecture that supports the deployment
of eBusiness, multimedia and collaborative
applications.
The Passport 8683 PoS Routing Switch
module delivers Metropolitan Area
Network (MAN) and WAN support
for the Nortel Networks Passport 8600
Routing Switch by providing access to
SONET services in a metropolitan area
network. The Passport 8683 PoS module
offers customers a simple and cost-effective
way to interconnect campus locations
without compromising performance or
increasing complexity.
The Passport 8600 Routing Switch is
a key component of the Nortel Networks
Optical Ethernet solution delivering
Gigabit Ethernet performance and
Quality of Service (QoS) for business-
critical applications and services such as
Internet Telephony. It provides wire-speed
switching and routing over fiber and
copper media.
The Passport 8600 provides 128 Gbps
of switching capacity, a variety of 10/100,
Gigabit Ethernet, Packet over SONET
and ATM ports, and a high performance
infrastructure for core routing and
switching.
Passport 8683
PoS Benefits
• Provides SONET services in the MAN
• Aggregates high volume traffic
over fiber
• Offers a variety of port speeds
• Eliminates the need for costly SONET
multiplexors and external routers
