Allied Telesis SwitchBlade x8100 Series User Manual
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| System Overview
Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................3
SwitchBlade x8100 Series – Chassis ..........................................................................................................................4
SwitchBlade x8100 Series – Chassis ..........................................................................................................................5
SwitchBlade x8100 Series – Control and Line Cards ..................................................................................6
CFC400 Control Card............................................................................................................................................6
CFC960 Control Card ............................................................................................................................................7
SwitchBlade x8100 Series – Power Supplies and Cooling .......................................................................8
System PSUs ...................................................................................................................................................................8
PoE PSUs ...........................................................................................................................................................................8
System cooling ...............................................................................................................................................................9
SwitchBlade x8100 Series – Internal Architecture .........................................................................................10
Data plane connectivity ..........................................................................................................................................10
Data plane load balancing .....................................................................................................................................11
Data plane traffic management ........................................................................................................................11
Control plane connectivity ..................................................................................................................................12
Control card synchronization ............................................................................................................................13
CPU traffic prioritization and rate limiting ...............................................................................................14
SwitchBlade x8100 Series – Switch Startup ........................................................................................................15
Switch startup operation ......................................................................................................................................15
Managing the chassis .................................................................................................................................................15
Chassis reboot ...............................................................................................................................................................15
CFC fast failover ........................................................................................................................................................15
Hot-swapping CFCs ..................................................................................................................................................15
Hot-swapping line cards .........................................................................................................................................15
Software upgrading ...................................................................................................................................................16
Incompatible software releases ........................................................................................................................16
CFC disabled master ..............................................................................................................................................16
System information ....................................................................................................................................................17
Appendix A: SwitchBlade x8100 Series Network Solutions ......................................19
Solution 1 – SwitchBlade x8100 (CFC400) network core resiliency ..................................20
Solution 2 – SwitchBlade x8100 (CFC400) distributed network with EPSRing ........21
Solution 3 – SwitchBlade x8100 (CFC960) complete network core resilience .........22
Solution 4 – SwitchBlade x8100 (CFC960) distributed collapsed backbone ...............23
Solution 5 – SwitchBlade x8100 Series as AMF master ................................................................24