Alpine 3800 chassis switches with Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)
Alpine™ 3800 series switches enable new technologies with intelligent security and availability features to keep network convergence simple and manageable. Known for QoS and high-performance, Alpine 3800 series switches are widely adopted globally for advanced 100M to Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. With Policy-Based Quality of Service (QoS), bidirectional rate shaping and bandwidth management, you can prioritize mission-critical applications and traffic to help maximize performance for delay-sensitive applications such as voice and video. VMAN features allow a scalable, cost-effective mechanism to deliver point-to-point and point-to-multipoint Layer 2 VPNs across metro networks.
The advanced ASICs and software technologies provide:
- Link aggregation of up to 8 links in a single trunk with sub-second failover and fail-back capabilities
- OSPF, RIPv1 and RIPv2, IP Multicast, BGP4 routing for Layer 3 redundancy for high availability and throughput
- Extreme Standby Router Protocol (ESRP), Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS), Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and STP extensions from Extreme
- High levels of security at the core of the network with ACLs, Network Login, and DoS protection features