6450 Stack issues

[Simo75]

Hi

1/ Is the 6450 family still released or EoS ? I have been told that 6450 is end of sale and is replaced by 6360 ..
2/ Is it possible to have on same stack 6450 and 6360/6560 ?
3/ What are the restrictions to connect a third party swicth (HP, Cisco etc) to a 6450 stack ?

Br

[silvio]

1) it is EOS.
2) within a Stack of 6450 are only 6450 possible. All other switches can be connected via Linkaggr, vlan tagging etc,
3) no restrictions there - Alcatel uses the same standards like other vendors. But you need to check the correct spanning tree setting with different vendors,