Chapter 3: Introduction - Avaya 8800 Planning And Engineering

Chapter 3: Introduction

This document describes a range of design considerations and related information that helps you to
optimize the performance and stability of your Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8800/8600 network.
Important:
This document describes the Avaya recommended best practices for network configuration. If your
network diverges from the recommended best practices, Avaya cannot guarantee support for issues
that arise.
Navigation
• Network design fundamentals
• Hardware fundamentals and guidelines
• Optical routing design
• Software considerations
• Redundant network design
• Layer 2 loop prevention
• Layer 3 network design
• Multicast network design
• MPLS IP VPN and IP VPN Lite
• Layer 1, 2, and 3 design examples
• Network security
• QoS design guidelines
• Hardware and supporting software compatibility
• Supported standards, RFCs, and MIBs
• Customer service
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