Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

	MERS 8600CO
Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8610CO
Height:	35.0 in. (88.9 cm)
Width:	17.4 in. (44.2 cm)
Depth:	23.7 in. (60.2 cm)
Weight (empty):; (fully loaded):	184 lb (83.5 kg); 315 lb (142.9 kg)
Rack mountable:	Yes, 19-inch standard rack

Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 or MERS 8600 is a modular chassis router and/or switch manufactured by Nortel now acquired by Ciena. The MERS 8600 supports the Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB), Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technologies and carrier class Operations Administration & Maintenance (OAM) tools. ^[1]

Configurable as a 1.440 Terabit Switch cluster using SMLT and RSMLT protocols,^[2] cluster failover (normally less than 100 millisecond).^[3]

BT uses the MERS 8600 PBB/PBT technologies in its 21st Century Network (21CN)^[4] and India has selected this platform for the most extensive IP network ever deployed by an international airport in India.^[5]

The MERS 8600 has 3 chassis options

8006, 6-slot chassis for backbones of low density or high space premium
8010, 10-slot chassis for high availability and high scalability
8010CO, 10-slot NEBS-compliant chassis.

The chassis can be configured with one or two CPU modules (8692SF), and is normally configured with two or three load balancing power supplies.

Modules

CPU Modules

8692omSF Switch Fabric and CPU 8692 with Expansion Mezzanine card, Supports 50 ms fail-over on NNI trunks with MultiLink Trunking
8692omSF Switch Fabric
8691 omSF Switch Fabric and CPU Module

10 Gigabit Ethernet

8683 XLR, 3 ports 10 Gigabit Ethernet XFP (LAN PHY only)

Packet Over SONET

8683POSM, POS Baseboard supports up to 6 OC-3 or 3 OC-12 ports

VPN Modules

8668 VPN Module

Gigabit Ethernet

8630 GBR, 30 ports 1000 BaseX small form factor pluggable interfaces (SX, LX, CWDM, TX)
8608GBM, 8-port Gigabit Ethernet, GBIC-based
8608GTM, 8 ports 1000BASE-T, fixed Gigabit Ethernet