Nortel Passport 8010

Nortel Passport 8010 ... wishing to deploy eBusiness and Internet Telephony applications in an Open IP environment. The Passport 8000 offers unprecedented levels of resilience and availability with its distributed switching architecture and provides investment protection by supporting seamless integration of Ethernet Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching technology, routing switch technology, multi-service LAN/MAN connectivity, while delivering up to 128 Gbps of switching capacity today, scaling to 256 Gbps in the future.

The Passport 8000 series chassis features a passive switching architecture designed to provide high availability for a wide range of supported technologies. Up to three load-sharing and load-balancing power supplies can be installed. A fully loaded chassis is able to operate with two power supplies providing N+1 power redundancy.