Nortel AL1016001 Datasheet

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

models — ERS 5510, 5520 and 5530

and come in a number of configurations

(see Table 1).

These switches are designed to provide

high-density Gigabit desktop connec-

tivity and Power over Ethernet capa-

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

deployments.

For example, enterprises looking for

high-speed uplink to the network core

can choose ERS 5530, which supports

dual 10-Gigabit connectivity. Other

businesses can opt for a mixture of PoE

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

Model Port configurations

ERS 5510-24T 24 10/100/1000BaseT ports, plus 2 shared SFP ports.

ERS 5510-48T 48 10/100/1000BaseT ports, plus 2 shared SFP ports.

ERS 5520-24T-PWR 24 10/100/1000 IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet ports plus 4 shared SFP ports.

ERS 5520-48T-PWR 48 10/100/1000 IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet ports plus 4 shared SFP ports.

ERS 5530-24TFD 24 10/100/1000BaseT ports, 12 shared SFP ports, 2 XFP 10 Gig ports.

Nortel Ethernet Routing

Switch 5500 highlights

• Ability to scale up to 384 Gigabit

ports when configured as an

8 high stack

• High-performance Layer 3 switching

fabric with up to 192 Gbps switch

fabric capacity

• High performance scalability using

Nortel’s FAST (Flexible Advanced

Stacking Technology) stacking

providing up to 640 Gbps of stacking

bandwidth

• Power to IP phones, wireless access

points, network cameras, security

and lighting devices, and access

control devices

• Sub-second fail-over using Nortel’s

switch clustering technology

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

Resilience and scalability

through stacking

Nortel’s innovative FAST stacking tech-

nology, which is supported by the

Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 family,

allows for simultaneous bidirectional

traffic flow on each stacking port, which

provides high performance stacking

connectivity across the series. With two

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,

ensuring optimum performance at the

edge, aggregation or core of the network.

For premium network uptime, in the

unlikely event of a unit or cable failure,

Nortel’s FAST stacking technology

delivers exceptional network uptime

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

that minimal user intervention is needed

in order to get that unit up and running

again.

For ease of management and mainte-

nance, the ERS 5500 comes complete

with features that enable testing and

monitoring of the stacking backplane

including stack loopback tests and stack

port counters, which enable network

managers to easily troubleshoot potential

issues.

High performance and

business continuity

Always-on, always-accessible networks

are vital for ensuring effective collabora-

tion among employees and customers,

and resource sharing between co-workers.

In the unlikely event of an inter-switch

link or unit failure, these interactions

must be able to continue without inter-

ruption. Business depends on it.

Through Nortel Multi-Link Trunking

(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.

Resiliency can be further enhanced with

uplinks being distributed across multiple

switches using technologies such as

Nortel’s Distributed Multi-Link Trunking

(DMLT) or Distributed Link Aggregation

(DLAG), ensuring that if a switch or

link in the stack should fail, the remaining

uplink links continue to provide network

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)

, which enables the

links of an MLT, DMLT or DLAG to

be terminated on two interconnected

core single or stack cluster of switches

for increased resilience and performance

from the edge to the core of the network.

A switch or stack of ERS 5500 switches

use SMLT to load balance multiple

uplinks from the edge of the network,

providing system level redundancy and

further reducing single points of failure

in the network. Additionally, when

using the ERS 5500 as a stack, further

levels are achieved as the network also

benefits from the stacking resilience

inherent to the ERS 5500.

Convergence-ready

functionality

Power over Ethernet

Ethernet Routing Switch 5520 models

include support for IEEE 802.3af

standards-compliant Power over Ethernet

(PoE). Support for this standard enables

the switch to power multiple devices —

including IP phones, wireless access

points, network cameras, security

devices and access control devices

supporting 802.3af — regardless of

product vendor.

Deployment in converged networks is

simplified through dynamic power

management of the PoE ports, with load

sharing and redundant power offered by

Nortel’s RPS 15 Power Supply Unit.

Combined, these features are designed

to ensure that devices requiring PoE can

be added to the network — without

power becoming an issue.

Table 2. Feature comparison

Features 5510 5520-PWR 5530

Target customer Mid and large Mid and large Mid and large

business business business

10/100/1000 ports per unit 24/48 24/48 24 (12 shared)

SFP ports 2 4 12

10 Gbps ports None None 2

Power over Ethernet No Yes No

Resilient fail-safe stacking Yes Yes Yes

Stacking capacity 640 Gbps 640 Gbps 640 Gbps

Number of switches supported Up to 4 1 1

by an RPS 15 module

Application Desktop connectivity Power to IP devices Wiring closet and

and server aggregation server aggregation

* Requires a stack return cable.

** Requires Advanced Software License.

ERS 5530 ERS 5530

Converged LAN Data Center

Switch Cluster

10/100/1000 Gig E

1 Gig E Fiber

BCM 200

Secure

Router

ERS 2500

PSTN

BCM 50

Company headquarters

Teleworker Coffee shop Remote locations

Fax

DSL

Secure

Router

T1/E1 Digital Trunk or Analog Trunks

DSL or Cable Modem

Frame Relay

MPLS

ERS 5510

Network

Manager

Active

Secure

Router

1100 Phone

IPSec VPN

DSL

Internet

IPv4

10 Gig E

ERS 5510

ERS 2500

FAST Stacking

T1 /E1

Analog

PoE

ERS 2500

FE PoE

Gig E

ERS 2500

Gig E

FE PoE

FAST Stacking

Figure 1. Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Network Diagram

Link Layer Discovery Protocol

and Auto Detection/Auto

Configuration

The ERS 5500 series combines the

functionality of the Link Layer Discovery

Protocol (LLDP) and Auto Detection/

Auto Configuration (ADAC) to further

satisfy enterprises’ needs for converged

applications and simplified deployment.

Currently supported on Nortel IP Phones

featuring 802.1AB functionality, the

Ethernet Routing Switch uses LLDP for

auto discovery of 802.1AB-supporting

devices. Through LLDP, the identifica-

tion, configuration and capabilities of

neighboring devices are stored and shared

with other 802.1AB-supporting products

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 for safeguarding

the network

Protecting the network against both

external and increasingly prevalent

internal attacks is a critical part of every

IT manager’s job. The ability to do this

requires simple to manage, yet intelligent

security solutions that not only look at

the identity of the person logging in,

but also at the device connecting into

the network. This network access control

approach ensures that only authorized

individuals and properly scanned/secured

devices are allowed onto the network,

thereby providing enhanced levels of

security.

Nortel’s Ethernet Routing Switch 5500

Series delivers various features to assist

in securing the network.

Nortel Secure Network Access

solution

Secure Network Access (SNA) —

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

seamless device quarantine and contain-

ment, remediation and repair for LAN

users and remote users (IPSec/SSL),

with both fixed and mobile connectivity

devices.

Running Nortel SNA with Nortel VPN

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

network.

Network Access Control through

802.1X-based authentication

The ERS 5500 series supports IEEE

802.1X-based security, which limits

access to the network based on user

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

approach to authentication. Additionally,

for Voice over IP (VoIP) deployments

where the PC connects to the network

through a VoIP handset, the PC does its

authentication via EAP while the handset

is authenticated by using its DHCP signa-

ture, thus allowing for a simplified solu-

tion when more than one device requires

authentication on a single switch port.

Dynamic Host Control Protocol

Snooping

Dynamic Host Control Protocol

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-

tion (DHCP spoofing). It is based on

trusted versus untrusted ports. DHCP

Snooping drops untrusted DHCP replies

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.

Dynamic Address Resolution

Protocol inspection

Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol

(ARP) inspection provides network

security to a device by eliminating an

attacker’s ability to poison ARP caches for

systems connected to the subnet. This

feature also prevents attackers from inter-

cepting traffic intended for other hosts on

the subnet (i.e., man-in-the middle).

Based on the DHCP binding table

maintained by the DHCP snooping

application, the function intercepts all

ARP request and responses on ‘untrusted’

ports. It then verifies that each intercepted

packet has valid IP-to-MAC address

binding before updating local ARP

cache or before forwarding the packet

to destination.

IP Source Guard

IP Source Guard is a Layer 2 per port

security feature that prevents IP spoofing

by only allowing IP addresses obtained

through DHCP Snooping. When a

connecting client receives a valid IP

address from the DHCP server, a filter is

installed on the port to allow traffic from

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

address to simplify network operations.

Dynamic Host Configuration

Protocol

Management is further simplified

through support for the Dynamic Host

Configuration Protocol (DHCP). This

functionality enables network adminis-

trators to centrally manage and auto-

mate the assignment of IP addresses for

Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 both in

standalone and stack configurations.

Enterprise-class management

The ERS 5500 series is managed through

Nortel’s enterprise-class Command Line

Interface (NNCLI). The NNCLI provides

a common industry look and feel to CLI

commands, helping to reduce training

and operational costs. Additionally, use

of either the Java Device Manager tool

or the web-based user interface makes

managing the Ethernet Routing Switch

5500 simple through a graphical

management interface.

Layer 3 functionality

ERS 5500 supports a number of

advanced Layer 3 features — including

static routes as well as the dynamic

routing protocols RIPv1/v2, OSPF**.

With support of up to 2,000 routes and

ECMP (Ethernet Routing Switch 5520

and 5530 only), VRRP and IP

Multinetting, the Ethernet Routing

Switch 5500 series delivers rich Layer 3

functionality enabling its deployment as

either a Layer 3 edge switch or as a core

solution for smaller enterprise networks.

Lifetime warranty

All 5500 switches offer a lifetime warranty.

A Nortel product hardware warranty is

supported for as long as the original end

user continues to own or use the product,

including fan and power supply. In the

event of a discontinuance of product

manufacture, the Nortel warranty support

is limited to five (5) years from the

announcement of discontinuance.

Summary

With more than 100 years in telecommu-

nications, Nortel is uniquely positioned

to help your business reduce costs by

combining voice and data into an inte-

grated system. Let us show you how

ERS 5500, along with other Nortel

products, can increase your profitability,

streamline your business operations,

increase productivity and help you gain

the competitive edge.

Ordering information

Ethernet Routing Switch 5510, 5520 and 5530

Order Code Description

AL1001*03-E5 Ethernet Routing Switch 5510-48T with 48 10/100/1000

ports plus 2 shared fiber mini-GBIC ports and a 1.5 foot

Stacking Cable. Includes Base Software License Kit.

AL1001*04-E5 Ethernet Routing Switch 5510-24T with 24 10/100/1000

ports plus 2 shared fiber mini-GBIC ports and a 1.5 foot

Stacking Cable. No Power Cord. Includes Base Software

License Kit.

AL1001*05-E5 Ethernet Routing Switch 5520-48T-PWR with 48

10/100/1000 IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet ports plus

4 shared fiber mini-GBIC ports and a 1.5 foot Stacking

Cable. Includes Base Software License Kit.

AL1001*06-E5 Ethernet Routing Switch 5520-24T-PWR with 24

10/100/1000 IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet ports plus

4 shared fiber mini-GBIC ports and a 1.5 foot Stacking

Cable. Includes Base Software License Kit.

AL1001*07-E5 Ethernet Routing Switch 5530-24TFD Switch with

24 10/100/1000Base-T ports, 12 shared fiber mini-GBIC

switch ports, 2 built-in XFP 10 Gig ports, built-in stacking

ports and a 1.5 foot Stacking Cable. Includes Base Software

License Kit.

Cable and Power Supply

Order Code Description

AL2018009-E6 Ethernet Routing Switch 5000-SRC Cascade Return

Cable (3 foot)

AL2018010-E6 Ethernet Routing Switch 5000-SSC Cascade Cable (1 foot)

AL2018011-E6 Ethernet Routing Switch 5510-SSC Cascade Cable (1.5 feet)

AL2018013-E6 Ethernet Routing Switch 5510-SSC Cascade Cable (10 feet)

AL2018014-E6 Ethernet Routing Switch 5510-SSC Cascade Cable

(5 meter/16.4 feet)

AL2011013-E6 Console cable for use with Ethernet Switches and

Ethernet Routing Switches

AA0005017-E5 Ethernet Routing Switch RPS 15 Chassis (up to three

RPS 15 modules can be installed in the chassis)

Cable and Power Supply continued

Order Code Description

AA0005*19-E5 Ethernet Routing Switch RPS 15 600-watt RPS

module (1 DC cable per RPS module required)

AA0005018-E6 Redundant Power Supply 15 - Connecting Cable

(6ft / 1.8m) for a single ERS 5520, 5530

AA0005020-E6 Redundant Power Supply 15 - Long Connecting

Cable (7.6m/25ft) for up to 4 x ERS 5510

AA0005021-E6 Redundant Power Supply 15 - Short Connecting

Cable (3m/10ft) for up to 4 x ERS 5510

AL1904007-E6 -48 V DC-to-DC converter, for installation in the

ERS 5510-48T and 5510-24T

SFP (Short-form Factor Pluggable) Transceivers

Order Code Description

AA1419013-E5 1-port 1000Base-SX SFP GBIC (LC connector)

AA1419014-E5 1-port 1000Base-SX SFP GBIC (MT-RJ connector)

AA1419015-E5 1-port 1000Base-LX SFP GBIC (LC connector)

AA1419043-E5 1-port 1000Base-T Small Form Pluggable (SFP), 8-pin

modular connector (RJ-45)

AA1419025-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1470nm Wavelength

(40km), LC connector

AA1419026-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1490nm Wavelength

(40km), LC connector

AA1419027-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1510nm Wavelength

(40km), LC connector

AA1419028-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1530nm Wavelength

(40km), LC connector

AA1419029-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1550nm Wavelength

(40km), LC connector

AA1419030-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1570nm Wavelength

(40km), LC connector

AA1419031-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1590nm Wavelength

(40km), LC connector

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SFP (Short-form Factor Pluggable) Transceivers

continued

Order Code Description

AA1419069-E5 1-port 1000Base-BX SFP GBIC - 1310nm Wavelength,LC

Connector. Must be paired with AA1419070-E5.

AA1419070-E5 1-port 1000Base-BX SFP GBIC - 1490nm Wavelength, LC

Connector. Must be paired with AA1419069-E5.

AA1419032-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1610nm Wavelength

(40km), LC connector

AA1419033-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1470nm Wavelength

(70km), LC connector

AA1419034-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1490nm Wavelength

(70km), LC connector

AA1419035-E5 1-port 1000Base-CWDM SFP GBIC – 1510nm