Versatile features and models

• 24- and 48-port, Gigabit and Fast Ethernet, PoE, non-PoE and 24-port fiber models available
• All models have two fixed SFP+ ports that can be 10GigE with a software license upgrade
• Scalability from 24 to 384 gigabit ports and 16 10GigE ports
• Optional SFP+ 10G/s stacking module
• Optional 10GigE uplink license
• Optional 1GigE user port upgrade for “L” models
• Optional Metro Services feature license option for service provider deployments
• IEEE 802.3af and IEEE 802.3at PoE compliant
• Internal AC or DC redundant power supplies

High performance and availability

• Advanced layer-2+ features with basic layer-3 routing for both IPv4 and IPv6
• Triple-speed (10/100/1000) user interfaces and Gigabit Ethernet fiber interfaces (SFPs) supporting 100Base-X or 1000Base-X optical transceivers
• 10 Gigabit uplinks with license installed
• Wire-rate switching and routing performance
• High availability with virtual chassis concept, redundant stacking links, primary/secondary unit failover, hot-swappable power options and configuration rollback

Comprehensive security

• Flexible and powerful device/user authentication with Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian (IEEE 802.1x/MAC/captive portal) with Host Integrity Check (HIC)
• Advanced QoS and Access Control Lists (ACLs) for traffic control, including an embedded denial of service (DoS) engine to filter out unwanted traffic attacks
• ACL-based role-based post admission control with user network profiles (UNP)
• Extensive support of Alcatel-Lucent Operating System (AOS) user-oriented features such as learned port security (LPS), port mapping, DHCP binding tables.

Convergence

• Enhanced VoIP and video performance with policy-based QoS
• Future-ready support for multimedia applications with wire-rate multicast
• IEEE 802.3at PoE+ support for IP phones, wireless LAN (WLAN) access points and video cameras

Management

• AOS field-proven software with management through web interface (WebView), command line interface (CLI) and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Ethernet OA&M support for service configuration and monitoring
• Support by Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista™ 2500 Network Management System (NMS)
• Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) applications for service providers