Alcatel Lucent OmniSwitch 6850 Stackable LAN Switch

Product benefits

Flexible selection and investment protection: With a variety of models, the L series hardware remains unchanged, and software licenses can upgrade 100Mbps to 1G; Deployment and operation are simple.

High availability virtual chassis stacking architecture: redundant stacking links, primary and backup unit fault switching, hot swappable power supply, configuration rollback; On site software upgrade to reduce operational expenses.

Full line speed second and third layer forwarding, perfectly carrying voice, data, and video fusion services; Supports VLAN stacking and a complete set of IPv6 features.

Low power consumption+dynamic PoE: PoE only outputs the actual power required by the terminal, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Built in security suite: NAC network access control, intrusion detection, terminal isolation and repair, no additional hardware required.

Automated deployment: LLDP, dynamic VLAN allocation, automatic initialization of switches, end-to-end VLAN issuance.

Metro Ethernet ready: Supports Q-in-Q, DHCP Snooping Option82, Y.1731/802.1ag/802.3ah, certified by MEF 9/14, simplifying operator access network OAM.

Hardware model family

All models come with 2 dedicated 10 Gigabit stacking ports; Combo port can flexibly switch between electrical port and optical SFP. Divided into non PoE, PoE, L lightweight 100Mbps models, and U all-optical models.

Model series description

Ordinary model OS6850-24/48: Gigabit electrical port; OS6850-24X/-48X: Comes with SFP+10G uplink

U optical port model OS6850-U24X: 22 SFP gigabit optical ports+2 combo ports, with 10G uplink

L lightweight model OS6850-24L/48L: hardware 10/100 100Mbps electrical port; Purchase UPGD software license and enable gigabit speed ports

P PoE models – P24/P48/P24X/P48X/P24L/P48L, powered by 802.3af PoE

power module

Non PoE power supply: OS6850-BP (126W AC); OS6850‑BP‑D（120W DC‑48V）

PoE power supply: OS6850-BP-P (360W, PoE output 230W); OS6850-BP-PH (510W, PoE output 380W)

Power bracket: supports multiple power sources, power cables can be extended, suitable for wall mounted shallow depth cabinets; All power supplies are hot swappable and have redundant backups.

Physical and environmental parameters

Chassis: 1U (4.4   cm), 44   cm wide, 27   cm deep; Increase the depth of the power bracket installation;

Noise: All models<44 dB (A);

Working temperature: 0-45 ℃; Storage -10-70 ℃; Humidity 5-95% without condensation; Meet the GR-63-CORE temperature and humidity cycling test;

The document provides MTBF, power consumption, heat dissipation BTU, and bare machine weight for each model.

performance metrics

All ports have second and third layer line speed forwarding;

Built in 2 10G full duplex stacking ports, with a single machine stacking bandwidth of 40G; the maximum aggregation bandwidth of the stacking cluster is 320Gbps;

Packet forwarding: maximum 65.5 Mpps for 24 port models; The 48 port model has a maximum of 101.2 Mpps.

Management system

AOS unified operating system, consistent operation with switches of the same series, reducing training costs.

Management interface: WebView graphical webpage CLI（SSH/Telnet）、SNMPv1/v2/v3； Support USB/TFTP/FTP/SFTP/SCP upload configuration; The configuration file can read ASCII text and supports offline batch editing and zero touch automatic deployment.

Network management platform: OmniVista 2500; Operator docking with 5620 SAM.

Monitoring and troubleshooting tools:

Syslog local/remote logs; Port mirroring (local, policy mirroring, remote mirroring, up to 4 mirroring sessions);

sFlow v5、RMON； Ping / Traceroute；

Ethernet OAM: 5.1731, 802.1ag, 802.3ah; DDM optical module diagnosis; TDR copper cable fault location; UDLD unidirectional link detection; Link jitter/error statistics.

Network automation capability: Auto-MDI-X; DHCP BOOTP automatically obtains IP; AMAP topology discovery; LLDP‑MED； MVRP/GVRP dynamic VLAN; NTP time synchronization; Auto‑QoS。

High availability and redundancy

Ring network protection: ITU-T G.8032 (<50 ms convergence); RRSTP ring network RSTP (<100 ms); MSTP/RSTP/PVST+；

LACP static LAG; DHL dual ownership link, sub second level protection, no STP required;

VRRPv2/v3 gateway redundancy; BFD bidirectional forwarding detection accelerates the convergence of routing faults;

Storm suppression (broadcast/unknown unicast/multicast);

Hardware: Hot swappable power supply, optical module; Dual firmware image, dual configuration backup;

WCCPv2 traffic redirection.

Security Features (Access Guardian NAC Framework)

Access authentication: 802.1X multi client multi VLAN, MAC authentication, Captive Portal web portal; Visitor VLAN; RADIUS / LDAP / TACACS+ AAA。

Terminal control: HIC host integrity verification, isolation and repair of non compliant devices; UNP user network configuration file, automatically issuing VLAN, ACL, bandwidth, and security policies after authentication;

Attack protection: LPS port security MAC lock; DHCP Snooping, ARP spoofing protection; TAD traffic anomaly detection identifies worm viruses; BPDU protection, root protection; LLDP illegal device detection; Hardware ACL L1-L4 filters DoS attacks; Compatible with Microsoft NAP.

QoS and converged services

PoE: Dynamic Power Allocation; Each port can be configured with PoE priority, maximum output power, compatible with 802.3af, and supports IP telephony and wireless AP.

QoS: 8 hardware queues per port; Scheduling SPQ/WRR/DRR; Entry speed limit and exit shaping; Tri color mark; HOL head blocking protection; Auto QoS optimization for IP telephony.

Routing and multicast capabilities (significant differences compared to OS6450)

OS6450 only has static routing and RIP; OS6850 supports complete enterprise level routing protocols

IPv4

Static RIP v1/v2、OSPF v2、IS‑IS、BGP‑4； GRE Tunnel; OSPF/BGP elegant restart; VRRPv2； DHCP relay; IP SLA performance measurement.

IPv6

Static RIPng、OSPFv3、BGP4+； Elegant restart; VRRPv3； NDP neighbor discovered.

multicast

IGMP‑Snooping v1‑v3； MLD‑Snooping； PIM‑SM / PIM‑DM； DVMRP。

Metropolitan Ethernet MEF 9/14 service

802.1ad Q-in-Q SVLAN/CVLAN, UNI/NNI interface, CVLAN-SVLAN mapping;

Y.1731 /802.1ag /802.3ah OAM； SAA business agent SLA verification; Private VLAN; MAC‑Forced‑Forwarding RFC4562； DHCP Option 82； IPMVLAN multicast VLAN.

Can be managed by 5620 SAM.

Software License

OS6850 SW AR Advanced Routing License: Enable OSPFv2, BGPv4, PIM SM/DM, DVMRP, OSPFv3 complete advanced routing protocols;

OS6850-24L-UPGD/OS6850-48L-UPGD: Upgrade the L series 100Mbps port to 1G;

OS6850 SW ENC encryption license: IPv6 routing protocol IPSec encryption (RIPng, OSPFv3).