Alcatel OS6602-24 Getting Started Guide - Page 8

Stacked Configurations In addition to working as individual, stand-alone switches, OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches can also be linked together to form a single, high-density virtual chassis known as a stack. Stacking switches provides scalability by allowing users to quickly and easily expand 10/100 port density. Twenty-four 10/100 ports are added for each OS6624 brought into the stack; twenty-four 100 SFP ports are added for each OS6600U24; forty-eight 10/100 ports are added for each OS6648. Up to eight switches can be stacked. OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches can be mixed and matched in any combination within the stack. This provides a virtual chassis with a 10/100 or 100 capacity of up to 384 ports. As with the stand-alone configuration, a stacked virtual chassis configuration provides Gigabit Ethernet uplinks to a backbone or server. Note. For basic information on stacking OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches into a virtual chassis, refer to "Completing a Stacked Configuration" on page 24. For additional information, refer to the OmniSwitch 6600 Family Hardware Users Guide. Availability Features The OmniSwitch 6600 Family provides a broad variety of Availability features. Availability features are hardware- and software-based safeguards that help prevent the loss of data flow in the event of a subsystem failure. In addition, some Availability features allow you to maintain or replace hardware components without powering off your switch or interrupting switch operations. Combined, these features provide added resiliency and help ensure that your switch is consistently available for your dayto-day network operations. Hardware-related Availability features include: • Smart Continuous Switching • Software Rollback • Hot Swapping • Hardware Monitoring For information on these Availability features, refer to the OmniSwitch 6600 Family Hardware Users Guide. 2 OmniSwitch 6600 Family March 2005