Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Explained

MERS 8600CO
Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8610CO
Height:	35.0 in. (88.9 cm)
Width:	17.4 in. (44.2 cm)
Depth:	23.7 in. (60.2 cm)
Weight (empty): (fully loaded):	184 lb (83.5 kg) 315 lb (142.9 kg)
Rack mountable:	Yes, 19-inch standard rack

Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 or MERS 8600 is a modular chassis router and/or switch manufactured by Nortel now acquired by Ciena. The MERS 8600 supports the Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB), Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technologies and carrier class Operations Administration & Maintenance (OAM) tools.^[1]

Configurable as a 1.440 Terabit Switch cluster using SMLT and RSMLT protocols,^[2] cluster failover (normally less than 100 millisecond).^[3]

BT uses the MERS 8600 PBB/PBT technologies in its 21st Century Network (21CN)^[4] and India has selected this platform for the most extensive IP network ever deployed by an international airport in India.^[5]

The MERS 8600 has 3 chassis options

• 8006, 6-slot chassis for backbones of low density or high space premium
• 8010, 10-slot chassis for high availability and high scalability
• 8010CO, 10-slot NEBS-compliant chassis.

The chassis can be configured with one or two CPU modules (8692SF), and is normally configured with two or three load balancing power supplies.

Modules

CPU Modules

• 8692omSF Switch Fabric and CPU 8692 with Expansion Mezzanine card, Supports 50 ms fail-over on NNI trunks with MultiLink Trunking
• 8692omSF Switch Fabric
• 8691 omSF Switch Fabric and CPU Module

10 Gigabit Ethernet

• 8683 XLR, 3 ports 10 Gigabit Ethernet XFP (LAN PHY only)

Packet Over SONET

• 8683POSM, POS Baseboard supports up to 6 OC-3 or 3 OC-12 ports

VPN Modules

• 8668 VPN Module

Gigabit Ethernet

• 8630 GBR, 30 ports 1000 BaseX small form factor pluggable interfaces (SX, LX, CWDM, TX)
• 8608GBM, 8-port Gigabit Ethernet, GBIC-based
• 8608GTM, 8 ports 1000BASE-T, fixed Gigabit Ethernet

100/10 Megabit Ethernet

• 8632TXM, 32 ports 10/100 plus 2 GBIC ports
• 8648TXM, 48 10/100TX ports

See also

• Ciena
• Metro Ethernet
• Wavelength-division multiplexing
• Provider Backbone Bridges
• Provider Backbone Transport

External links

• Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 -Broken
• Resilient Terabit Cluster - Always on Networking - Broken

Notes and References

1. http://www2.nortel.com/go/solution_assoc.jsp?segId=0&parId=0&catId=0&rend_id=17102&contOid=100188013&prod_id=55120 Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB) and Provider Backbone Transport (PBT); Technology overview
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20080219000122/http://products.nortel.com/go/product_assoc.jsp?segId=0&parId=0&catId=null&rend_id=1825&contOid=100175078&prod_id=44781&locale=en-US Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Technical Specifications
3. Web site: Evaluation of Resilient Routing Switches for Real-Time Multimedia Traffic with Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 and Nortel MCS 5100 . The Tolly Group . 2007-10-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725220334/http://www.tolly.com/ts/2007/Nortel/ERSswitches/Tolly207171NortelERSwitchSMLT.pdf . 2011-07-25 . dead .
4. https://www.lightwaveonline.com/network-design/packet-transport/article/16672236/nortel-wins-role-in-bts-21cn Nortel wins role in BT's 21CN
5. http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=47600 Mial Chooses Nortel For New Communications Infrastructure At Mumbai’s Chha Trapati Shivaji International Airport