Overview:
The demands on IT have never been greater: do more, do it quicker, and reduce costs. The Virtual Services Platform 8600 Series is engineered from the ground up to deliver against a checklist of must-have capabilities. Innovative design re-imagines how the modular Ethernet Switch should be architected, but more importantly, it’s been engineered to solve the most demanding challenges.
Network infrastructure needs to be both agile and powerful and decade-old products aren’t up to the job of delivering what’s needed. One platform, multiple solutions: the new Virtual Services Platform 8600 Series is powerful enough to be at the heart of the Campus or Data Center, versatile enough to deliver multi-rate Ethernet ranging from 1 to 100 Gigabit, and compact enough to be deployed as an end- or middle-of-row. The network foundation, re-imagined with network operators in mind.
An innovative architecture empowers the Virtual Services Platform 8600 Series to deliver more of what you need – ports and performance – while consuming less of what’s finite – money, space, time, and power. The multi-terabit Switch Fabric capacity enables a fully non-blocking switching architecture.
Leveraging today’s most efficient switching chipset designs, the VSP 8600 provides more of the crucial 1/10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet speeds that you need for agile service delivery. All this while consuming less precious real estate. At just 7RU, the product boasts an industry-leading ultra-low profile form-factor and a best-in-class Port/RU ratio.
The VSP 8600 also support s the Extreme Networks Fabric Connect architecture, which greatly simplifies network operations. With Fabric Connect, it’s possible for the network to handle once-manual functions automatically. This reduces the potential for error and accelerates time-to-service. It also allows IT to quickly respond to changing business requirements with precision and flexibility.
Benefits
- Engineered from the ground up to deliver must-have capabilities
- Enterprise-ready with battle-tested software
- Pioneering design delivers next-generation capabilities
- Revolutionary and evolution-ready
- Get more from less
- Pay-as-you-grow, literally
Features and Capabilities
- Support for 10/25/40/100 Multi-Rate Gigabit Ethernet
- Raw system capacity of up to 21.6Tbps
- Extreme Fabric Connect
- Extreme Switch Cluster
- Broad support for IP Routing techniques
- Hot-swappable & IPv6-optimized hardware
- MACsec and Enhanced Security Mode options
Benefits:
The VSP 8600 adds significant flexibility to the Extreme Networks portfolio, and is compatible with, and complementary to, existing products and technologies. It represents a highly compact, next-generation, high-performance Chassis-based Modular Ethernet Sw itching platform. It is positioned as a highly scalable platform delivering a broad range of interface connectivity, and focused primarily for demanding Core/Spine Switch applications in the Campus and Data Center. To this end, the VSP 8600’s architecture features deep packet buffers that accommodate bursty traffic and deliver lossless performance.
Extreme Networks has a long history of innovation in the Ethernet Switching industry. The VSP 8600 continues this proud tradition. It?s a modular platform that delivers high capacity yet consumes minimal space, delivering leading port and bandwidth densities. It is a highly efficient platform that reduces system complexity by integrating control functionality with a broad range of interface options. The VSP 860 0 features a flexible architecture that satisfies today’s need for high-performance and high-availability, and seamlessly integrates capabilities that allow for an evolution that will keep the platform class-leading for many years.
The VSP 8600 makes use of the most advanced, efficient merchant silicon from the industry’s leading innovator. This achieve faster time-to-market, greater economies of performance, and broader feature capability. The VSP 8608 Chassis is very low-profile, given the capacity and density, occupying just seven (7) RU of height in a standard 19-rack.
Features:
System Performance
Each 8600 Switch Fabric Module provides 7.2Tbps in terms of aggregate bandwidth, or 3.6Tbps of Full-Duplex bandwidth. This capacity is evenly distributed across the eight IOC Module slots. As each additional 8600SF Module is added to the system, additional per-IOC slot bandwidth is introduced, increasing the overall capacity and performance levels.
Therefore, a fully loaded system, with three 8600SF Modules installed, delivers a raw system capacity of aggregate 21.6Tbps (10.8Tbps Full Duplex). The first-generation IOC Modules can access 480Gbps aggregate (240Gbps FDX) of each of the installed Switch Fabric Modules, up to the maximum of 1.44Tbps (720Gbps FDX).
Product Positioning
The new VSP 8600 expands the VSP line with an order of magnitude increase in port-density and switching performance. These capabilities equip the new VSP 860 0 for its primary focus: Core and/ or Aggregation Switch in mid-to-large Campus networks. Additionally, the VSP 8600 is suitably architected to deliver versatile services in hybrid Campus/ Data Center deployment scenarios, acting as the Spine Switch in a Spine/ Leaf Top-of-Rack deployment, or as the End-/ Middle-of-Row that provides direct Server termination. Supporting Extreme Networks’ innovative Fabric Connect and Switch Cluster technologies, in addition to conventional IP Routing, the VSP 8600 is an agile and versatile option that?s suitable for a variety of deployment scenarios.
The VSP 8600 can be implemented singularly, benefiting from hitless failover high-availability that protects traffic flows in the event of any system-level failure. However, it’s more typically deployed as a pair or in multiples of paired nodes. Thus implemented, the VSP 8600 delivers network-level always-on application resiliency and high-availability. When properly architected, the network is largely autonomous: network-wide application availability is protected from any single equipment, system, or node failure.
For large Campus deployment s, the VSP 8600 will t ypically be matched with wiring closet fixed switches, like the ExtremeSwitching ERS or ExtremeXOS switch families. Leveraging 10 Gigabit network uplinks ensures end-to-end performance, complementing the demanding capabilities of Gigabit-to-the-Desktop and Wave 2 Wireless LAN infrastructures.
System Compatibility
From a software perspective, the VSP 8600 Series was introduced with the VOSS 4.5 software release; this is, therefore, the minimum level of software available to operate the Switch. The recent VOSS 6.2 release for the VSP 8600 delivers the following major enhancements:
- IPv6 Routing: A comprehensive suite of IPv6 routing features, including OSPFv3, BGP+ and RIPng, now allows the VSP 8600 to fully participate in IPv6 Layer 3 network environments.
- Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) Multicast: : IPv4-based multicast services over the Fabric Connect (or SPB) virtual network are introduced with VOSS 6.2 on the VSP 8600. This includes IPv4 multicast over Fabric Connect L2 VSNs, L3 VSNs, as well as over IP Shortcut routing. This enables the VSP 8600 to deliver flexible, high-performance, and resilient IP multicast services over the Fabric Connect network without the complexity of PIM.
- Application Telemetry: Granular visibility into application performance, users and devices is provided through Application Telemetry services that operate in conjunction with Extreme’s ExtremeAnalytics platform. Application Telemetry combines packet flow information from the VSP 8600, along with deep packet inspection abilities of ExtremeAnalytics, to deliver actionable insights into network and application performance ? all without the need for expensive dedicated sensors or collectors.
Features and Capabilities
- Innovative design to address the challenges of today.
- Reduced hardware requirements minimizes capital outlay.
- Higher port density from a reduced footprint.
- Break-the-mold architecture that is future-ready.
- Pioneering pay-as-you-grow software licensing model.
- Leverages full-featured, tried and tested VOSS software.
- Flexible support for up to 48 ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet, 128 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet, or 192 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
- Hot-swappable hardware.
- Feature-rich support for conventional VLAN, Link Aggregation, Spanning Tree technologies.
- Support for IPv4 Routing techniques, including Static, RIP, OSPF (including Graceful Restart), BGP, VRRP, and VRF.
- Support for IPv6 Routing techniques RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP+, and VRF.
- IP Multicast support via PIM-SM/ SSM for IPv4.
- Extreme Networks Switch Cluster technology supports Triangle, Square, and Full-Mesh configurations, with both Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality and Simplified Virtual IST.
- Extreme Networks Fabric Connect technology, with support for L2 Virtual Service Networks, L3 Virtual Service Networks, Inter-VSN Routing, and IP Routing Shortcuts. Additional Fabric Connect functionality is to be added in future software releases.
- MACsec and Enhanced Security Mode options.
Software Licensing
- IOC Base Software License. The VSP 8600 implements a new licensing paradigm that introduces a pay-as-you-grow approach to the licensing most commonly used software features. For each installed IOC Module, customers will purchase a corresponding IOC Base Software License; this has the effect of dispensing with the large up-front costs associated with the conventional one-size-fits-all Chassis license.
- Layer 3 Virtualization Feature Pack. This is an optional, system-wide, mission-specific license that enables advanced level of device- and network-level virtualization, and – where local regulations permit – MACsec. This Feature Packs enables: >16 BGP Peers, >24 Virtual Routing and Forwarding instances, Layer 3 Virtual Service Networks, and ? where applicable – MACsec.
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