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Alcatel 7210
PowerRail Distribution Router
The Alcatel 7210 PowerRail Distribution Router (PDR), formerly the PowerRail
1000, is designed to provide the bandwidth that end stations need today and the
scalability to support emerging applications. The Alcatel 7210 PDR shares the
same high-performance architecture found in the Alcatel 7652 and 7622 PowerRail
Distribution Routers (PDRs), formerly the PowerRail 5200 and 2200.
The Alcatel 7210 PDR policy-based management interface and hardware-based
routing engine provide the intelligence and performance necessary for
mission-critical, latency-sensitive multimedia applications. The Alcatel 7210
PDR combines a low-profile form factor with enterprise backbone performance.
Scalability
The Alcatel 7210 PDR is designed to provide the bandwidth that end stations
need today and the scalability to support emerging applications. It provides
high-performance Layer 3 intelligence to off load and distribute IP and IPX
routing from traditional routers. The Alcatel 7210 PDR has a non-blocking
capacity of 10 Gb/s of bandwidth, supporting full loads on twenty auto sensing
10Base-T/ 100Base-TX Ethernet ports and two 1000Base-SX or 1000Base-LX Gigabit
Ethernet ports.
As a member of the PowerRail family, the Alcatel 7210 PDR is built to address
two of the fundamental issues foremost in the minds of network managers:
improved performance and lower overall cost of ownership.
High performance routing
By delivering simultaneous, packet-by-packet routing at full line rates on
each port, the Alcatel 7210 PDR eliminates routing as a bottleneck. The Alcatel
7210 PDR provides wire-speed routing throughput of nearly 6 Mpps and supports
16,000 Layer 2 and Layer 3 routes. The switch seamlessly routes IP and IPX
traffic using RIPv1/v2, OSPFv2, IPX/RIP, IPX/SAP, and AppleTalk Phase 2.
Parallel access shared memory
PowerRail switches use Alcatel's reliable ASIC-based parallel access shared
memory architecture, which allows them to deliver wire-speed multicast traffic
without affecting overall performance. The parallel access shared memory
architecture is superior to traditional shared memory architectures in that its
non-blocking design provides every port with simultaneous full access to a
central shared memory. Memory is allocated to each port according to demand,
providing a highly efficient use of switch resources.
Application-enabled networking
The Alcatel 7210 PDR can protect and prioritize mission-critical and
latency-sensitive traffic. Using its ability to perform wire-speed analysis of
Layers 2, 3 and 4, and application attributes, the Alcatel 7210 PDR can route
traffic according to administrative policies. The switch delivers QoS to the
edge of the network using Layer 4 switching, standards-based IP TOS routing,
802.1p, and eight priority queues per port.
Continuous investment protection
The Alcatel 7210 PDR slides transparently into your network without any
changes to the network architecture. It maximizes network availability with a
broad range of resiliency features such as storing multiple images of the
operating system, extensive support for Spanning Tree, load-sharing trunk
groups, and redundant power supplies. Its standards-based software supports full
SNMP, four groups of RMON (history, events, statistics and alarms) on every
port, and wire-speed port mirroring. The switch can be managed with an intuitive
Java-based management application, a command line interface (CLI), and Telnet.
Additional support is offered for enterprise network management systems such as
HP OpenView.
Mission critical reliability
Today, networks are carrying more business critical information than ever and
it is essential that networks remain available to end users at all times. Like
the Alcatel 7652 and 7622 PDRs, the Alcatel 7210 PDR is designed for
mission-critical environments. The design offers future proofing, simple field
serviceability, and product flexibility. The power supply is optionally
redundant.
High performance architecture
The Alcatel 7210 PDR uses the same reliable, ASIC-based parallel access
shared memory architecture as the Alcatel 7652 and 7622 PDRs, which allows it to
deliver wire-speed multicast traffic without affecting overall performance. The
Alcatel 7210 PDR handles full-duplex (Layer 2 or Layer 3) communications on all
ports without risk of data loss.
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