Nortel Passport 8006 Manuals

Part No. 316314-E Rev 01 March 2006 4655 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 *316314-E_Rev_01* Installing and Maintaining the Passport 8000 Series Chassis all-guides.co m

• Combines the port density and connectivity of the Passport 8600 modular switch with award- winning Alteon Web Switching technology • Provides Local and Global Server Load Balancing and health checks, to optimize existing server infrastructure and minimize costs • Enables Firewall and VPN Load Balancing, which can run simul- taneously with server load balancing, for economical security deployments without bottlenecks • Delivers Content Intelligent Switching and session-level persistence to maximize profitability while minimizing infrastructure impact Switching in the Web data center demands a unique set of capabilities, due to the time-sensitive nature of accessing Web content. A Web Switch must be able to quickly handle an enormous number of sessions, while ensuring that the Web servers it is connected to are topologically close to the user, healthy, and able to fulfill the users’ request in the least possible time. It must balance the load coming into the servers, firewalls, or VPNs. The Web Switch must protect the servers against Denial-of-Service attacks, overloaded Intrusion Detection servers and flash crowds. It must ensure persistence, to eliminate e-commerce pitfalls like broken shopping carts and Web forms, while remaining easy to deploy. And a Web Switch must enable new traffic types, including streaming media and wireless. Alteon Web Switching Module Alteon WSM Benefits Nortel Networks Intelligent Internet Product Brief Introducing Nortel Networks Alteon Web Switching Module (WSM). The WSM brings all the capabilities of Alteon’s award- winning stackable Web Switches to a modular format that is affordable, scalable, and easy to customize for every users’ unique needs. The combination of the Alteon WSM and Nortel’s Passport 8600 creates a complete, high capacity, carrier- class switching system of unprecedented scale. Service providers, hosters, content providers, e-businesses and enterprises can now get state-of-the-art Web OS Traffic Management while aggregating large numbers of 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections to servers, routers, firewalls, and caches.