Product Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch® 9900 Series core switch is a high-capacity, high-performance modular CLOS (Orthogonal Matrix) Ethernet switch.

The OmniSwitch® 9900 Series is widely used in enterprise, service provider, and data center environments. Because the OmniSwitch 9900 Series runs on Alcatel-Lucent Operating System (AOS), a state-of-the-art programmable operating system specifically designed for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) environments, it enables uninterrupted network operation through continuous Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding.

The OmniSwitch 9900 is a high-density, multi-terabit (Tbit) modular platform. This platform can linearly scale switching capacity through virtual machine chassis technology, providing tens of terabits of total switching capacity. Its modular design offers investment protection, allowing for future in-line upgrades and providing high-density 1G/2.5G/5G/10G/25G/40G/50G/100G interfaces.

The OmniSwitch 9900 series is suitable for core, aggregation, and access layer environments in enterprise networks. Its flexible platform architecture, with its independent control and data planes, provides unparalleled scalability to meet the network scalability and throughput requirements of enterprises of different sizes as they grow. The OmniSwitch 9900 series offers a variety of network interface modules, providing gigabit, 2.5G, 40G, and 100G service ports in an 11U height chassis, and offers the highest gigabit/10-gigabit port density in its class.

The OmniSwitch 9900 offers the highest Power over Ethernet (PoE) port density in its class, with built-in PoE power expandable up to 10800 W. Gigabit PoE line cards support 8 HPoE (75 W) ports and 40 802.3at PoE (30 W) ports. All PoE-enabled ports comply with IEEE 802.3af/at standards.

The OmniSwitch 9900 significantly reduces power consumption through its energy-efficient mode, making it a highly efficient and versatile switch.

The OmniSwitch 9900 series core switches also utilize Alcatel-Lucent's Intelligent Fabric technology. This technology enables true network flexibility, ensuring excellent business agility. It not only delivers a resilient, high-capacity architecture but also provides automated deployment and self-healing network capabilities, reducing IT operating costs. This technology platform is based on standard IEEE protocols and key innovations, such as Shortest Path Bridging (802.1aq/SPB-M) for bridging and routing services, Multi-VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP), Virtual Network Profile (vNP), 802.3ad/802.1AX (ACP), and Auto-Fabric technology for automatic protocol and topology discovery.

Features

• Wire-rate non-blocking switching and routing performance for Ethernet at 40/100 GigE, 10/25 GigE and
10/100/1000 Base-T speeds
• High port density
OS9907 in 11-RU
¬ Up to 288 10/100/1000Base-T triple speed ports
¬ Up to 288 1000Base-X ports
¬ Up to 240 SFP+ ports. Capable of 1 GigE/10 GigE
¬ Up to 240 10 G Base-T ports. Capable of 1 GigE/10 GigE
¬ Up to 80 1/2.5/5/10 G Multi-gig ports
¬ Up to 14 QSFP+ ports. Capable of 40 GigE or 4x10GigE
¬ Up to 108 QSFP28 ports. Capable of 40/100 GigE or 4x10/25 GigE
OS9912 in 17.25-RU
¬ Up to 480 10/100/1000Base-T triple speed ports
¬ Up to 480 1000Base-X ports
¬ Up to 480 SFP+ ports. Capable of 1 GigE/10 GigE
¬ Up to 480 10 G Base-T ports. Capable of 1 GigE/10 GigE
¬ Up to 208 QSFP28 ports. Capable of 40/100 GigE or 4x10/25 GigE
• Resilient hardware system and highly available virtualized software architecture
• Up to two OS9907 can be connected using virtual chassis technology to create a single chassis like entity with
up to 480 10G GigE or 576 GigE ports.
*Two OS9912 in virtual chassis can support up to 960 10 GigE ports, 960 GigE ports or 400 GigE ports.
• Integral operating system advanced functions: Quality of Service (QoS), access control lists (ACLs), Layer-2/
Layer-3 switching, virtual LAN (VLAN) stacking and IPv6
• Intelligent policy control through OpenFlow 1.3.1/1.0
• Hardware virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) support for VRF-lite and IPVPN
• Scalable network virtualization architecture with guaranteed Service Level Agreement (SLA) delivery over standard
Ethernet fabric: Auto-Fabric IP routing for routed backbone and access provisioning, Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)
for bridging and routed services, Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB), Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP)
and dynamic Virtual Network Profiles (vNP)
• Zero-touch provisioning and network automation with out-of-the-box plug- and-play Auto-Fabric for automatic
protocol and topology discovery. Protocol auto-discovery and self-provisioning works with any Ethernet device
that supports standard IEEE protocols such as 802.1aq (Shortest Path Bridging Media Access Control, SPBM),
802.1ak (MVRP), 802.3ad/802.1AX (Link Aggregation Control Protocol, LACP). Auto-Fabric operation extends to
IP routing protocol provisioning and IP onboarding.
• On PoE-enabled network interface modules:
¬ IEEE 802.3af and 802.3at compliant PoE of 30 W per port on all ports
¬ Up to 75 W of PoE (High Power-over- Ethernet, HPoE) per port on first eight ports
¬ Capacity to deliver 1800 W of PoE power
• Advanced Unified Access features providing application fluency in converged campus networks:
¬ Integrated policy with dynamic User Network Profiles (UNP)
¬ Extensive security features for network access control (NAC), policy enforcement and attack containment
¬ Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) fluency to provision and monitor QoS treatment of SIP flows
¬ AirGroup™ Network Services for Bonjour® speaking devices
• Enables deployment of comprehensive and secure bring-your-own-device (BYOD) services in enterprise networks:
¬ Advanced guest management capabilities

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