1 — Overview
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Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 WSG Installation Guide, Release 2.0
September 2007
3HE03334AAAATQZZA Edition 02
1.1
Introduction
This document describes how to install the 8550 WSG and initialize
the 8550 WSG Management Portal so that you can perform
configuration and administration tasks. See the
OmniAccess
8550 WSG Configuration and Administration Guide
for information
on how to perform these tasks.
The 8550 WSG offers the following features:
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performance—Intel Processors and memory technology
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reliability—redundant hot pluggable hard drives, disk-based back
up, redundant power supplies, and redundant fans
•
management—System Insight Display LEDs that provide status
monitoring for system health, integrated power monitoring, and
automatic recovery
1.2
8550 WSG deployment planning
The 8550 WSG can be deployed to virtualize any combination of the
following scenarios:
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virtualized internal services for external consumption
Internal web services are configured on the 8550 WSG and access
is provided to external users, such as partners.
•
virtualized external services for internal consumption
External services are configured on the 8550 WSG to allow access
to internal users.
•
internal services for internal consumption
Only web services published within an Enterprise are configured
on the 8550 WSG.
•
internal services for internal consumption and virtualized external
services for internal consumption
The 8550 WSG is configured to allow internal web services for
internal consumption within an Enterprise, and virtualized external
services for internal consumption.
WS client applications do not have any direct knowledge or access to
WS applications that may exist behind the 8550 WSG. The 8550 WSG
drops any request for a service it has not been configured to virtualize.
