Alcatel Unleashed

The new Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6850E Stackable LAN Switch (SLS) is the latest advanced stackable gigabit Ethernet switch in the OmniSwitch family of products. The OmniSwitch 6850E is available in 24 and 48 port configurations and provides wire-rate layer-2 and layer-3 switching simultaneously for IPv4 and IPv6. The OmniSwitch 6850E provides fine grained controls for quality of service (QoS) and for security including network access control (NAC). It offers full support for 802.3at compliant power over Ethernet (PoE) and stacks with the existing OmniSwitch 6850 family allowing for smooth expansion of existing installations where PoE+ or SFP+ is needed.

These versatile LAN switches can very well be positioned at the edge of mid to large size enterprise networks, at the aggregation layer, small enterprise core and are suitable advanced CPE for the Ethernet access for metro and managed services.

Key features:
- Hardware based virtual routing (VRF) support
- Modular Expansion Slot for more 10 Gig ports
- Long distance stacking via SFP+
- High Power over ethernet (IEEE 802.3at)
- Metro Ethernet
- Backwards compatible with the OmniSwitch 6850 series (note that certain features will not be available when stacking with OS6850 (non E) series. For example: VRF
- New power supply available to support higher PoE demands (900W power supply)

Non-PoE Models
- OmniSwitch 6850E-24
- OmniSwitch 6850E-24X
- OmniSwitch 6850E-U24X
- OmniSwitch 6850E-48
- OmniSwitch 6850E-48X

PoE Models
- OmniSwitch 6850E-P24
- OmniSwitch 6850E-P24X
- OmniSwitch 6850E-P48
- OmniSwitch 6850E-P48X

Plug-in Module
- OS6-XNI-U2 – delivers two additional SFP + 10G ports