Nortel Passport 8608 Specifications

• High Availability
• Operational Simplicity
• Low Cost of Ownership
• Open IP Environment
The Passport* 8600 Routing Switch
modules deliver wire-speed switching
and routing over copper and fiber media.
The Passport 8600 Routing Switch
modules support a high-performance
Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching architecture
that delivers 128 Gbps of switching
capacity for high-performance application
support today, scaling to 256 Gbps in the
future. Wire-speed switching and routing
between any two ports on the switch is
performed with latency less than 10µs,
making the Passport 8600 the ideal
platform for deploying eBusiness and
Internet Telephony applications in an
Open IP environment. All 8600 Routing
Switch modules feature Express
Classification (XC), embedded hardware-
based filtering for security and traffic
classification, for wire-speed Layer 2,
Layer 3 and Layer 4 policy services.
In combination with the Passport 8100
series Edge Switch modules and the
Passport 700 server switches, the Passport
8600 Routing Switch modules are ideal
for Enterprise backbones and server
farms. One software license per 8600
chassis is required.
The 8690SF module (see Figure 1) is
optimized for high-performance switching
of Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic. The
on-board CPU performs independent
learning of unknown devices and topology
updates so that the switch fabric is
dedicated to switching critical application