Product Brief
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Release 5.1
Increasingly, companies are turning to
technology to help boost their bottom
line and increase employee produc-
tivity. Advances in technology, however,
have led to some very real challenges,
particularly how to efficiently and cost-
effectively connect a myriad of different
devices, disparate systems and multiple
locations. The answer to addressing
these challenges lies in virtualization of
the network.
Virtualization can transform your IT
infrastructure and your business by
providing a clear path to advanced
applications that create a unified
communications environment for
your organization. Among other things,
virtualization provides for network
simplicity, flexibility and scalability,
and enables faster time-to-market in the
data center and core campus. It works
by virtualizing servers, and centralizing
services, management and security
— without compromising the high-
availability, security and performance on
which you’ve come to rely. As a result,
virtualization delivers many benefits
A resilient, flexible and scalable solution that delivers network virtualization, exceptional value
per port and one of the industry’s highest 10G densities per module/rack.
Unified communications
enables the collaborative
technologies required to share
resources within your entire
organization, improve day-
to-day operational processes
and communicate more cost-
effectively with customers,
partners and suppliers.
to your business, including simplified
management, accelerated decision-
making, decreased recurring costs
and increased employee productivity
through unified communications.
By offering advanced virtualization
features and one of the industry’s
highest 10G densities per module/rack,
the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch
8600 can turn your network into a
highly reliable, efficient and cost-
effective infrastructure that drives
unified communications and critical
business applications.
