Module 2

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Module 2

• Product Overview

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Module Objectives

• Describe Extreme Switch Product Family
• Understand Extreme Architecture
• Describe Product Features and Functional Summary
• Discuss Extremes Compliance to IEEE Standards
• Define ExtremeWare Software Features
• Summary

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Extreme Product Family
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Products

• Summit Switches
• Summit1
• Summit4
• Summit24
• Summit48
• Summit7i
• Alpine 3804 and 3808
• BlackDiamond 6800 Chassis-based Switch
• ExtremeWare Software
• ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager - EEM

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Extreme Architecture

• Wire-speed forwarding is made possible through
  Extremes proprietary ASIC design
• The switch fabric is comprised of a collection of
  ASIC chipsets

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Extreme Architecture

• Each forwarding slice is capable of supporting
  1 Gigabit Ethernet interface or 8 Fast Ethernet
  interfaces at wire speed

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Extreme Architecture

• Extreme currently supports two configurations
• a four slice and
• an eight slice solution

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Extreme Architecture

• The final products are market-targeted switches
  sharing identical technology and interfaces.

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Product Summary Overview
Summit Switch Family
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Summit1

• 17.5 Gbps backplane
• 8 ports of gigabit ethernet
• 6 SX multi-mode ports
• Two GBIC connectors (SX/LX)
• Serial port
• Redundant Power Supply port

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Summit4

• 17.5 Gbps backplane
• 16 10/100 auto sensing UTP ethernet ports
• 6 SX Gigabit Ethernet Ports
• Serial port
• Redundant Power Supply port

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Summit24

• 8.5 Gbps backplane
• 24-10/100 auto-sensing UTP ethernet ports
• 1-1000 Mbps gigabit ethernet port
• Port 25 GBIC Based with a redundant Physical
  layer connector
• Serial port
• Redundant Power Supply port

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Summit48

• 17.5 Gbps backplane
• 48 10/100 auto sensing UTP ethernet ports
• 2 1000 Mbps gigabit ethernet ports
• Port 49 and 50 GBIC-based with a redundant
  physical-layer connector
• Serial port
• Redundant Power Supply port

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Summit48 Detail
Classroom Labs will be performed on this switch
LEDs are ordered left to right, top to
bottom Power Green - Summit powered up Yellow -
Primary RPS has failed MGMT Green Flashing -
Normal operation, download in progress, Solid -
POST in progress Yellow - Switch failed POST
(power on self test), or fan failure
Packet Yellow - Frames being transmitted/received
on this port Off - no activity Status Green solid
- link is present port is enabled Green flashing
- Link is present port disabled Off - Link is
not present
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Summit7i

• 64 Gbps non-blocking switch fabric bandwidth
• Wire-speed IP IPX routing
• 48 million pps
• 32 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 28 autosensing 100/1000BASE-T or 1000BASE-SX
  ports
• 4 GBIC-based 1000BASE-X ports

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Alpine 3808 and 3804 Ethernet Service
Provisioning Switch

• IP TDM (fixed-latency transport)
• SONET-like reliability
• Bandwidth by the slice
• Usage-based billing
• Integrated WDM
• Virtual MAN (vMAN) services
• BGP4
• Long-reach optics

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Alpine 3808 and 3804 Ethernet Service
Provisioning Switch

• Maximum redundancy and reliability
• Dual load sharing power supplies
• Hot swappable I/O modules and fan tray
• Specialized interface modules
• Distance capable GBICs - 70 Km
• WDMi - 35 Km
• Packet over SONET
• High density
• 12 Inches deep
• 32-port 10/100, 24-port 100FX
• 4-port 1000BASE-X, 1000BASE-T
• Performance 64 Gbps/48 Million pps

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The BlackDiamond 6808

• A ten slot chassis, eight port blades, two for
  switching fabrics
• Up to 256 10/100 ports, full non-blocking
• Up to 32 Gigabit ports, full non-blocking
• 64Gbps non-blocking switching fabric
• 48 Mpps wire speed IP routing
• Fault tolerant switching fabric
• Redundant load sharing, hot swappable power
  supplies
• Hot-swappable fan tray, port and switch modules

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The BlackDiamond 6816

• A twenty slot chassis, sixteen port blades, four
  for switching fabrics
• Up to 1,536 10/100BASE-TX ports
• Up to 192 1000BASE-T ports
• Up to 192 1000BASE-X ports
• 256 Gbps non-blocking switch fabric
• 192 million pps routing and switching performance
• Wire-speed IP/IPX routing and switching
• Passive backplane supports quad-redundant,
  load-sharing and hot-swappable switch fabrics

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Extreme Switches At-A-Glance
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Extreme Functional Summary

• IP Routing Performance Rating
• IEEE 802.3 compliance
• CPU for management and control
• Ports and Interfaces
• Distances on Fiber runs SX/LX
• Power budgets for SX/LX
• Software Features

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IP Routing Performance Rating

• Summit switches Route IP at line rate on all
  ports, all the time
• IP routing performance is rated at
• Summit1 - 11.9 million PPS
• Summit24 - 5.0 million PPS
• Summit4 - 11.3 million PPS
• Summit48 - 10.1 million PPS
• Summit7i - 48 million PPS
• BlackDiamond 6808 - 48 million PPS
• BlackDiamond 6816 - 192 million pps

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IEEE 802.3 Standards Compliance

• IEEE 802.3ab
• 1000BaseT
• IEEE 802.3u
• 100BaseTX
• IEEE 802.3z
• 1000BaseX (SX and LX)

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802.3z Transmission Distances
Bandwidth Capacity (or Modal Bandwidth) of the
Fiber
10 micron SMF
10,000 meters with Extreme on both ends
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Power Budget For SX/LX

• SX multi-mode Power Budget of 7db
• LX Multi-mode Power Budget of 7.5db
• LX Single Mode 2km Power Budget of 5.5db
• LX10 Single Mode 10KM Power Budget of 5.5db

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CPU For Management and Control

• Instantiate entries in forwarding table
• Up to 32K MAC entries in FDB
• Up to 32K Host Routes in IPFDB
• Up to 16K multicast group/source network pairs
• Up to 32K FLOWS (IPQoS)
• Maintains route tables in Layer 3
• Up to 8000 routes
• 32 Mb Dram

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Ports and Interfaces

• Default auto-sensing in 10/100 and Gig ports
• All FE ports are full or half duplex configurable
• Modular GbE interface - GBIC - Gigabit Interface
  Converter
• Hot swappable for either SX or LX

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ExtremeWare Management Software
Command Line Interface
Standard MIBs Extreme MIB
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ExtremeWare CLI and Telnet Sample
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ExtremeWare Software - VISTA

• ExtremeWare Vista
• Web-based management
• Built-in HTTP server
• Menu selections for Configurations, Statistics,
  and Support

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ExtremeWare Supported Features

• Console and Telnet CLI connection
• ExtremeWare VISTA Web-based management interface
• Load Sharing on multiple ports
• VLANs and support for IEEE 802.1Q 802.1p
• STP - IEEE 802.1D w/ multiple STP domains
• Policy-based Quality of Service (QoS)
• Wire-speed IP routing
• Routing Protocols - RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPF
• IP Multinetting
• DHCP/BOOTP Relay

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ExtremeWare Features cont.

• Route Redistribution (RIP-OSPF, OSPF-RIP)
• Wire-Speed IP multicast routing support
• Multicast Protocols - DVMRP, IGMP, PIM-DM
• IGMP snooping to control IP multicast traffic
• IPX Routing
• Extreme Standby Routing Protocol
• SNMP and RMON Support
• Port mirroring

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ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager 2.0

• Provides unified management of Extreme switches
  via a three tiered architecture consisting of a
  Server, Database and Client

• Server and database run on NT 4.0 and Solaris 2.6
  and 2.7
• Clients run in a web browser
• Java-enabled standard-based open architecture
• SmartTrap optimizes network efficiency
• HP OpenView integration
• Centralized information with built-in relational
  database
• Multi-user access and security
• Enterprise management of VLAN and Policy-Based
  QoS

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Switch Management

• Telnet, Command Line Interface
• Web Interface
• Logging
• SNMP
• MIBII
• Bridge MIB
• RMON - EtherStats, History, Alarms, Events

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Software Features Summary

• Load Sharing (Trunking)
• 2 or 4 ports
• Open Implementation
• Up to 256 VLANs for Summits, 1024 for
  BlackDiamond
• Port-based with tagging
• Protocol-sensitive
• Combination
• Up to 64 instances of Spanning Tree

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Software Features Summary

• Quality of Service
• Bandwidth Reservation
• Priority
• IP Routing
• Line-Rate Layer 3
• RIP, OSPF, DVMRP, PIM-DM
• IPX Routing

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Summary

• Describe Extreme Switch Product Family
• Understand Extreme Architecture
• Describe Product Features and Functional Summary
• Discuss Extremes Compliance to IEEE Standards
• Define ExtremeWare Software Features