Product Brief
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Resilient, high-performance premium switching for the Edge, Aggregation or small Core
The Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch
5000 Series is a set of high-performance
Stackable LAN Switches providing the
resiliency, security and convergence
readiness required for today's high-end
Wiring Closets, high-capacity Data
Centers and smaller Core environments.
Nortel's industry-leading resilient
Stacking technology provides high-avail-
ability for delay-sensitive and business-
critical data and voice applications. Up
to eight Ethernet Routing Switch 5000
units can form a resilient Stacked solu-
tion, manageable as a single entity, of up
to 400 ports, with maximized uptime
even if an individual Switch within the
Stack should fail.
Table 1. Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Model
Link and uplink ports
ERS 5510-24T
24 x 1000BASE-T, including 2 x Combo 1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP
ERS 5510-48T
48 x 1000BASE-T, including 2 x Combo 1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP
ERS 5520-24T-PWR
24 x 1000BASE-T with Power-over-Ethernet, including 4 x Combo
1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP
ERS 5520-48T-PWR
48 x 1000BASE-T with Power-over-Ethernet, including 4 x Combo
1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP
ERS 5530-24TFD
24 x 1000BASE-T, including 12 x Combo 1000BASE-T/1000BASE-SFP,
plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
ERS 5632FD
24 x 100/1000BASE-SFP plus 8 x 10GBASE-XFP
ERS 5650TD
48 x 1000BASE-T plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
ERS 5650TD-PWR
48 x 1000BASE-T with Power-over-Ethernet plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
ERS 5698-TFD
96 x 1000BASE-T, including 6 x Combo 1000BASE-T or
100/1000BASE-SFP, plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
ERS 5698TFD-PWR
96 x 1000BASE-T with Power-over-Ethernet, including 6 x Combo
1000BASE-T or 100/1000BASE-SFP, plus 2 x 10GBASE-XFP
Scalable, resilient and
flexible Ethernet Switching
Recognizing that networking require-
ments vary from business to business —
with differing needs at the Edge, Core
and Distribution Layer, Nortel offers
the highly flexible Ethernet Routing
Switch 5000 Series (ERS 5000); encom-
passing the original 5500 models and
the new 5600 models, combining to
offer a versatile portfolio of ten models.
This provides Enterprises the ability
to choose the model that best fits their
networking requirements (see Table 1
for details).
The ERS 5000 Series features 100%
cross-portfolio Stacking compatibility.
The original ERS 5500 models feature a
Stacking capacity of 80Gbps per Switch
and up to 640Gbps for a full Stack of
eight Switches, and the new ERS 5600
models introduce an enhanced Stacking
capacity of 144Gbps per Switch and
1.152Tbps for a full Stack. This is
unprecedented in the Industry and
ensures optimal performance for delay-
sensitive application traffic traversing
the Stack.
Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series
Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 Series