Alcatel to Roll Out New LAN Switches

Alcatel on Monday will flesh out its new LAN switching family, designed from scratch, to support converged voice, data and video traffic with a pair of new switches for the network core and edge.

Alcatel's eBusiness Networking Division in Calabasas, Calif., on Monday will deliver the new OmniSwitch 8800 core switch, designed for high-availability Layer 3 switching, along with the new OmniSwitch 6600 virtual chassis switch, which brings chassis-like functions to a stackable wiring closet switch.

The new switches use the same architecture and Alcatel Operating System as the rest of the OmniSwitch family - a move intended to speed troubleshooting across the product line and ease administration.

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