Alpine Series

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Exteme Wireless

The Alpine 3800 series switches enable enterprise networks to adopt new technologies, such as wireless and Voice-over-IP (VoIP), by offering intelligent security and availability features to keep network convergence simple and manageable.Providing advanced availability, scalability and management features, the Alpine 3800 series switches are ideally suited for service providers and metropolitan area networks (MANs).

The Alpine 3800 series switches support a wide offering of high performance Ethernet connections including standard Category 5, fiber optic media, legacy WAN, and Power over Ethernet. With the flexibility and scalability of a modular chassis, the Alpine chassis switches provide a complete solution for Ethernet network connectivity.

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Performance Reports:

Are All Gigabit Solutions Created Equal?

Alpine 3804, BlackDiamond 6808 and Summit48si - Layer 2 & Layer 3 IP Interoperability Evaluation (247k PDF)

Performance Comparison of Extreme Networks BlackDiamond 6808 and Apline 3808 vs. Cisco Catalyst 6509 (250K PDF)

Extreme Networks BlackDiamond 6808 and Alpine 3808 Performance Test, v3.0 (242k PDF)

White paper: Advanced Traffic Management and Through T-Control

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BlackDiamond 8800 (627K ZIP)

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Optics (27K ZIP)

Sentriant (52K ZIP)

Summit (1.77M ZIP)

Wireless (628K ZIP)

The most advanced member of the BlackDiamond series is the BlackDiamond 10808 (BD10K). Designed from the ground up to support a high-density 10 gigabit infrastructure, the BlackDiamond 10K is based on Extreme Networks® fourth generation of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology. These ASICs have a number of new enhancements, including longest prefic match (LPM) routing for IPv4 and IPv6, programmable packet parsing and editing, robust multicast performance, and the revolutionary CLEAR-Flow security infrastructure. These features enhance routing performance, allow support of new network protocols without disruptive hardware upgrades, enable seamless voice and video distribution, and enable real-time response to day-zero network Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Features such as Quality of Service (QoS), Access Control Lists (ACLs), and statistics gathering can be enabled without affecting packet throughput, even at 10 gigabit data rates.

The BlackDiamond 10K chassis was designed to meet stringent carrier-class standards, with front-to-back cooling, redundant PSUs, fans, and controllers, and a passive backplane. Integrated error checking and correction protects the packet data path, and independent control and data planes ensure that network data and management traffic never interfere.

The most advanced member of the BlackDiamond series is the BlackDiamond 10808 (BD10K). Designed from the ground up to support a high-density 10 gigabit infrastructure, the BlackDiamond 10K is based on Extreme Networks® fourth generation of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology. These ASICs have a number of new enhancements, including longest prefic match (LPM) routing for IPv4 and IPv6, programmable packet parsing and editing, robust multicast performance, and the revolutionary CLEAR-Flow security infrastructure. These features enhance routing performance, allow support of new network protocols without disruptive hardware upgrades, enable seamless voice and video distribution, and enable real-time response to day-zero network Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Features such as Quality of Service (QoS), Access Control Lists (ACLs), and statistics gathering can be enabled without affecting packet throughput, even at 10 gigabit data rates.

The BlackDiamond 10K chassis was designed to meet stringent carrier-class standards, with front-to-back cooling, redundant PSUs, fans, and controllers, and a passive backplane. Integrated error checking and correction protects the packet data path, and independent control and data planes ensure that network data and management traffic never interfere.

The newest member of the BlackDiamond series is the versatile BlackDiamond 8800 family. Again, designed from the ground up for 10 gigabit support, the BlackDiamond 8800 provides the universal port for IP telephony with integrated support for Power over Ethernet (PoE) at gigabit data rates. Available in 10-slot and 6-slot models, the BlackDiamond 8800 series provides voice-class availability and power at every port, making it the ideal modular unified access solution for a combined edge and aggregation solution in a converged network. Each port supports a full range of Layer 2-4 features, and each I/O module provides non-blocking local switching and backplane connectivity for up to 48 gigabits of port bandwidth. This unprecedented performance also makes the BlackDiamond 8800 series ideal for medium enterprise cores and as an interconnect switch for high-performance computing applications. The highly redundant chassis design and system architecture provide voice-class availability at any network location.

Our revolutionary ExtremeWare® XOS™ operating system, the industry's first truly modular network operating system, increases availability over and beyond the chassis level high availability design. Self-healing process restart ensures that the switch can recover from failures without rebooting the entire operating system. Software modules can be loaded or upgraded dynamically, and the ExtremeWare XOS architecture also supports hitless software failover and upgrades.

All BlackDiamond switches are designed and built to minimize latency and jitter, which degrade the quality of voice and video applications. They're also highly resilient, a key aspect of voice-class availability. One of the many mechanisms used to ensure resiliency, is Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) link resiliency standard, available on all switches from Extreme Networks. With sub-50-millisecond link failover recovery time, you can be certain that voice calls won't be dropped.

Our multi-layered approach to security safeguards your network. Airtight authentication blocks users at the switch, until they've been approved. Extensive ACLs make it easy to apply policies that prevent users from reaching restricted resources, without slowing performance. Additionally, we have developed proven-interoperable solutions with best-of-breed partners, so you can implement the security architecture that's best for you.

Management simplicity has always been critical; it becomes even more so as a single, converged network carries all of an organization's voice, video, and data traffic. All of our products share the same user interface and management framework, ensuring end-to-end simplicity. We also offer management software that allow you to monitor your wired and wireless IP-based data and phone infrastructure and take the effort out of moves, adds and changes.