Nortel’s Ethernet Routing Switch 5500

series combines high performance, scala-

bility and advanced Layer 3 features in

one versatile solution.

Nortel’s Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS)

5500 series is comprised of stackable

10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Layer 3

routing switches available in three

bility to mid-size and large enterprise

customers’ wiring closets, data centers

or small core installations.

Configuration flexibility

Recognizing that networking require-

ments differ from business to business,

Nortel offers several products within

the 5500 series — offering enterprises

the flexibility to choose the port mix

that’s just right for their networking

and non-PoE supporting units within

the same stack, which enables units to

be added to the wiring closet or core on

a convenient and flexible pay-as-you-

grow basis. See Table 2 for a comparison

of features in the ERS 5500 family.

Product Brief

Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series

Resilient, high-performance switching for the edge, aggregation or the core of the network

Table 1. Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series

control devices

All switches come with built-in stacking ports and a 1.5 ft stacking cable as well as a Base Software License Kit. The Advanced

Software License, SFPs and additional stacking cables are available for purchase separately.

The Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 family

Nortel’s innovative FAST stacking tech-

stack-ports per unit and the ability to

stack up to a maximum of eight units

together, a full stack yields up to 640

Gbps stacking capacity and up to 384

Gigabit ports with minimal impact to

performance and bottlenecks. Through

the use of intelligent forwarding, an

optimal data flow using a shortest path

algorithm ensures that data traverses the

stack in the most efficient manner,

by maintaining the operation of the

remaining units in the stack. This is made

possible by ensuring that remaining

units continue to run uninterrupted*.

Additionally, through support for

Automatic Unit Replacement (AUR)

when a replacement unit is added into

the stack, the configuration and software

image are automatically synchronized

with that of the failed unit, ensuring

monitoring of the stacking backplane

including stack loopback tests and stack

port counters, which enable network

Always-on, always-accessible networks

are vital for ensuring effective collabora-

tion among employees and customers,

(MLT) or standards-based 802.3ad Link

Aggregation, enterprises can bundle

multiple connections into a single network

trunk to provide increased bandwidth

and resiliency. In the event that a link

should fail within the aggregation or

trunk, network resiliency can be signifi-

cantly improved as fail-over to the

remaining active links is not dependent on

slow converging networking protocols.

link in the stack should fail, the remaining

connectivity to users connected to the

remaining units.

To achieve even higher levels of network

resiliency, DMLT or DLAG can be used

in combination with Nortel’s switch

clustering technology Split Multi-Link

Trunking (SMLT)

The ERS 5500 series combines the

Protocol (LLDP) and Auto Detection/

Auto Configuration (ADAC) to further

devices. Through LLDP, the identifica-

tion, configuration and capabilities of

in order to build a topology map.

Through the linkage of these two features,

once the device is identified, the ADAC

feature automatically configures the port

with settings such as VLAN member-

ship and prioritization information.

security solutions that not only look at

the identity of the person logging in,

but also at the device connecting into

approach ensures that only authorized

devices are allowed onto the network,

thereby providing enhanced levels of

security.

Nortel’s endpoint security and policy

compliance solution — inspects,

assesses, ensures compliance to policy,

and remediates at the network endpoint

source, prior to network access.

Nortel SNA dramatically simplifies the

complexity of enterprise network access

architectures with a solution that assures

endpoint security compliance. Nortel

SNA provides this security through

Gateways and Routers and ERS 5500

enables a highly integrated endpoint

security solution that’s easy to use and

manage. If an end station is already

known to the network manager as a

trusted device, its MAC address can be

input into the ERS 5500 switch. This

simplified and centralized manner of

managing access ensures that trusted

devices are granted quick access to the

credentials. Through support for any

device with an 802.1X supplicant, as

well as for machines that don’t have a

supplicant but have a known MAC that

can be entered into the switch/RADIUS

server, 802.1X delivers a standards-based

for Voice over IP (VoIP) deployments

where the PC connects to the network

through a VoIP handset, the PC does its

Snooping (DHCP) snooping provides

network security to a device by elimi-

nating an attacker’s ability to respond to

DHCP requests with false IP informa-

and verifies the source of the DHCP

packets by creating a binding table of

DHCP clients. DHCP Snooping is used

in conjunction with the ARP Inspection

feature.

(ARP) inspection provides network

Based on the DHCP binding table

maintained by the DHCP snooping

application, the function intercepts all

packet has valid IP-to-MAC address

binding before updating local ARP

cache or before forwarding the packet

the assigned IP address. IP Source Guard

supports up to 10 IP addresses per port

and is dynamically configured from IP

information stored in the corresponding

DHCP Snooping Binding Entry.

Simplified management

The ERS 5500 series can be managed as

a single stacked entity through one IP

Management is further simplified

standalone and stack configurations.

Nortel’s enterprise-class Command Line

Interface (NNCLI). The NNCLI provides

commands, helping to reduce training

and operational costs. Additionally, use

All 5500 switches offer a lifetime warranty.

A Nortel product hardware warranty is

announcement of discontinuance.

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