Alpine 3800 Series Switch Overview; Summary Of Features - Extreme Networks Alpine 3808 Hardware Manual

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Alpine 3800 Series Switch Overview

The Alpine 3800 series switch is a chassis-based, Ethernet service provisioning switch designed for edge
and aggregation applications. The Alpine 3800 series switch is flexible and scalable, making it easy for
you to meet the changing requirements of your network. The combination of BlackDiamond, Alpine,
and Summit switches delivers a consistent end-to-end network solution that provides a nonblocking
architecture, wire-speed switching, wire-speed IP routing, and policy-based Quality of Service (QoS).
This chapter describes:
• Summary of Features on page 117
• Switch Components on page 119
• Following Safety Information on page 120

Summary of Features

This section describes the features of the Alpine family of switches. If the information in the release
notes differs from the information in this guide, follow the release notes. For more information about
configuring the switch, refer to the ExtremeWare Software User Guide and The ExtremeWare Command
Reference Guide.
The features of the Alpine 3800 series switch include:
• A 9-slot chassis that can be populated with up to eight input/output (I/O) modules and one Switch
Management Module (SMMi) (Alpine 3808)
• A 5-slot chassis that can be populated with up to four I/O modules and one SMMi (Alpine 3804)
• A 3-slot chassis that can be populated with up to three I/O modules (Alpine 3802)
• I/O modules that are hot-swappable, and include Gigabit Ethernet or 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports
• Redundant, load-sharing, hot-swappable power supplies (Alpine 3808 and Alpine 3804)
• Field-replaceable, hot-swappable fan tray (Alpine 3808 and Alpine 3804)
• Fully nonblocking operation
— All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed
• Autonegotiation for half-duplex or full-duplex operation on 10/100 Mbps ports
• Load-sharing on multiple ports
• VLANs, including support for IEEE 802.1Q
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