The Avaya Ethernet Ethernet Routing Switch Routing Switch 4000 Series is a 4000 Series Stackable Chassis system providing high-performance, Highlights Of The Ethernet convergence-ready Routing Switch 4000 Series and resilient • Always-on – Best in class end-to-end Ethernet switching resiliency solution, hot-swappable unit connectivity. replacement within a Stackable Chassis and integrated power redundancy. Available as a range • Convergence-ready – Support for PoE and PoE+, optimized for high- of 17 model variants definition video surveillance, true plug and play capabilities for IP supporting 10/100 Phone deployments, advanced QoS capabilities. and 10/100/1000 • Energy efficient – On average 36% more energy efficient than switching and competitive solutions,1 energy saver functionality further reduces routing, Power-over- power consumption for both Switch and IP Phone without losing telephony connectivity. Ethernet, Power- • Powerful – Wire-speed performance, true pay-as-you-grow Stackable over-Ethernet+ and Chassis capabilities, delivering up to 400 ports and 384 Gbps of virtual 10 Gigabit Ethernet backplane throughput. uplink options, the • More Secure – Standards-based 802.1x with integration with Avaya’s Ethernet Routing Identity Engines portfolio for centralized, policy-based authenticated Switch 4000 Series network access. is ideally suited for • Flexible – Mix-and-match best-in-class stacking capabilities; PoE and PoE+ and optional 1GbE and 10GbE SFP+ uplinks. Enterprise wiring closet and other • Fabric-ready – Support for Avaya Fabric Connect services as part of Avaya’s Virtual Enterprise Networking Architecture strategy. network edge deployments. The Ethernet Routing Switch 4000 Series Intelligent Stackable provides resilient Stacking Chassis, Layer Chassis solution delivering 2 switching and dynamic Layer 3 routing, performance, scalability, plus many industry leading convergence resilience and flexibility features. This enables the Ethernet Routing Switch 4000 Series to deliver the No one knows stacking like Avaya. We scalability and resiliency required by introduced our first Stackable Chassis today’s application-driven enterprise product in 1998 and have been perfecting networks while reducing total operational the technology ever since. We were the costs. first and only vendor to break the Terabit avaya.com | 1 High performance architecture ERS 4000 Series v5.8 further extends Avaya with true pay-as-you grow scaling Fabric Connect capabilities on ERS 4800 Our Stackable Chassis products models combine non-blocking internal switching fabrics with a high-speed The ERS 4800 family of hardware uniquely extends virtual fabric services to the stackable wiring closet switch – allowing the Avaya virtual backplane architecture to data center or campus fabric to reach all the way to the network edge. deliver a high performance solution Fabric Connect is supported across all four ERS 4800 models that scales proportionally as new including: switches are added. The ERS 4000 • Ethernet Routing Switch 4826GTS Series scales up to 384Gbps of virtual • Ethernet Routing Switch 4850GTS backplane throughput by simply • Ethernet Routing Switch 4826GTS-PWR+ cabling together up to 8 units. • Ethernet Routing Switch 4850GTS-PWR+ Adding a new unit to the Stack Chassis is as easy as cabling in a new Avaya Fabric Connect allows network operators to add network capacity or new paths, and have them be automatically discovered member then extending the without impact to existing services. It creates a multipath Ethernet appropriate configuration. The network that relies on Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System necessary software images and the (IS-IS), a proven carrier-grade link state protocol, to dynamically build the topology between nodes – keeping provisioning to the edge of the configuration file are automatically network. Changing or adding new services can be completed more downloaded to the new unit and then quickly by simply provisioning each networking end point. The brought on-line without any user network does the rest, saving time and minimizing human errors. intervention. Release v5.8 further extends ERS 4800 Fabric Connect services with a new feature, called Fabric Attach. Fabric Attach provides for “zero- touch” onboarding of non-fabric enabled devices to the virtual To ensure wire-speed performance, services network. It enables devices, such as IP Phones or WLAN AP our Stackable Chassis architecture is devices, to be automatically provisioned across the Avaya Fabric based on a shortest-path algorithm Connect network – further reducing the complexity and time to add new devices to the fabric. (For more information on Fabric Attach, for optimal data flow across the stack. please see the Automating Campus Networks Brochure). Unlike competitive solutions that use The v5.8 release also supports a number of other enhancements to unwieldy logical ring or token ERS 4800 models. These include IPv6 RIPE support, PIM-SM technology, Avaya allows traffic to designated router edge, storm control, and circuitless IP capabilities, flow upstream and downstream along with a number of serviceability/manageability enhancements. simultaneously from every switch connected to the virtual backplane, optimizing performance, resiliency, boundary with our ERS 5600 Series From a management perspective, our and resource utilization. Avaya has an products and we’ve differentiated Stackable Chassis looks like a single additional advantage in that we honor ourselves in the industry by ensuring network entity – utilizing only a single Quality-of-Service settings as traffic that our Stackable Chassis perform IP address to dramatically simplify passes over the stacking like a traditional modular chassis software upgrades. We also offer true connections – providing applications implementation. We offer genuine investment protection with the ability with optimal performance, and a chassis-like features including true to mix-and-match any units within the positive end user experience. pay-as-you-grow scaling and in ERS 4000 Series into a Stackable service maintenance and restoration. Chassis. 2 | avaya.com All ERS 4000 models come with two Further complementing the in-built Stackable Chassis interfaces Stackable Chassis architecture, the for simple, cost-effective and Avaya ERS 4000 Series supports efficient connectivity. Unlike standards-based 802.3ad Link comparative offerings which daisy Aggregation as well as its own Multi- chain low-speed interfaces, this Link Trunking technology that allows design frees uplink ports for grouping of ports to form high-speed dedicated connectivity to the trunks/aggregations. These bundles ERS 4000 Stackable Chassis backbone. In addition to the stacking or groups of ports can be distributed cables, a return cable is also used to across different units in the same protect against any port, unit or cable Stackable Chassis, delivering higher Highlights of failures. levels of resilience in case of link or Avaya’s Stackable Switch failure to help ensure that Chassis technology: traffic gets to its destination. In-service maintenance and True pay-as-you-grow restoration scaling: Extending capacity is Distributed real-time monitoring of easy. Simply cable a new unit Virtual hot swap capabilities ensure the Stackable Chassis provides an into the virtual backplane and that a failure in any unit of the the configuration is at-a-glance view of operational status Stackable Chassis is quickly and automatically updated. and health which further enhances easily rectified. Pioneered in modular operational and management Scalable performance: The switches, virtual hot swap is available high performance design of simplicity. in Avaya’s Stackable Chassis solutions Avaya’s Switches along with enabling immediate like-for-like unit their high-speed interfaces (up to 384Gbps) helps ensure replacement without any impact to Centralized management that the Stackable Chassis the existing traffic or any units. If a From a management perspective, our scales proportionally as each failure occurs, neighboring switches Stackable Chassis appears as a single new unit is added. automatically wrap their fabric networking entity – utilizing only a Optimal path forwarding: The connections to help ensure that other single IP Address. This can shortest, most optimal path is switches within the Stackable Chassis significantly reduce the number of chosen for each flow of traffic with QoS being maintained are not impacted. The failed unit is switches to be managed within the across the virtual backplane. simply disconnected from the virtual network as a stack of up to 8 switches backplane and, without pre-staging can be managed just as easily as a No single point-of-failure: Stackable Chassis operations of software or configuration, a like- single switch. All Ethernet Routing for-like unit is inserted, cabled, and are unaffected by the failure Switch 4000 models use the same of any individual unit and units powered-up. The Automatic Unit software image, irrespective of model can easily be replaced within Replacement (AUR) process self- type. The image needs to be loaded minutes. manages software and configuration only to the base unit of the Stackable Centralized management: downloads to the new switch then Chassis which automatically loads it Single IP address for the brings it online, without the need for to other switches. entire Stackable Chassis for an engineer to configure or manage simplified management. the process. Flexible stacking options: Mix-and-match