The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 9000E series is a new, high capacity core switch that addresses the need for a secured and highly available voice, data and video solution for large enterprise core switches and data centers, or a metro Ethernet environment.

This latest Alcatel-Lucent product offering supports the familiar and field proven AOS functionality and thus can be effortlessly deployed within our existing OmniSwitch 9000 systems while offering extended features to address new customer requirements.

  The switch family offers enterprises:

·         Gigabit capacity

·         Advanced layer 3 switching

·         High availability through in-service software upgrades

·         Layer-2 segregation using virtual local area networks (VLANs) and stacked VLANs (also known as QinQ)

·         Layer-3 segregation by multiple virtual routing and forwarding ( multiple VRF)

·         Eco-sustainability by minimizing BTUs/hour thus reducing energy requirements and air-conditioning costs