- Resilient hardware system architecture
- Internal, hot-swappable power supplies and fans
- Front-to-back and back-to-front cooling options provide lowest power consumption per port in its class
- Integral operating system advances functions: quality of service (QoS), access control lists (ACLs), Layer-2/Layer-3 switching, Virtual LAN (VLAN) stacking and IPv6
- VXLAN snooping for dynamic real-time multi-tenant visibility and SLA policy enforcement
- Support of Open vSwitch Database (OVSDB) protocol for integration with SDN controllers such as VMware NSX and Nuage Networks
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900 Stackable LAN and data center switches are compact, high-density 10 Gb Ethernet (10 GigE), 25 GigE, 40 GigE and 100 GigE platforms. In addition to high performance and extremely low latency, they offer Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), OpenFlow, Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), and data center bridging (DCB) capabilities, QoS, Layer-2 and Layer-3 switching, as well as system and network level resiliency. They are designed for the most demanding software-defined operations in virtualized or physical networks and converged data centers. The OmniSwitch 6900s support lossless configurations and can be positioned as converged top-of-rack or spine switches in data center environments, or as core and aggregation devices in campus networks.