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OmniSwitch 6600 Family Switch Management Guide
March 2005
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About This Guide
This OmniSwitch 6600 Family Switch Management Guide describes basic attributes of your switch and 
basic switch administration tasks. The software features described in this manual are shipped standard with 
your OmniSwitch 6600 Family switch. These features are used when readying a switch for integration into 
a live network environment.
Supported Platforms
This information in this guide applies to the following products:
• OmniSwitch 6624
• OmniSwitch 6648
• OmniSwitch 6600-U24
• OmniSwitch 6600-P24
• OmniSwitch 6602-24
• OmniSwitch 6602-48
OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches are next generation enterprise edge/workgroup switches. The 
OmniSwitch 6624 and 6602-24 offer 24 copper 10/100 ports, the 6600-P24 offers 24 copper 10/100 Power 
over Ethernet (PoE) ports, the 6648 and 6602-48 offer 48 copper 10/100 ports, and the 6600-U24 offers 24 
fiber 100 ports.
In addition, OmniSwitch 6624/6600-U24/6648 switches have one expansion port that can be used for a 
Gigabit Ethernet uplink module and another expansion port that can be used for a Gigabit Ethernet uplink 
or a stacking module while the 6602-24/6602-48 switches offer fixed Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and fixed 
stacking ports. The stacking ports on all OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches allow two to eight 
OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches to be configured as one virtual chassis known as a stack.
Note. All references to OmniSwitch 6624 and 6648 switches also apply to the OmniSwitch 6600-U24, 
6600-P24, 6602-24, and 6602-48 unless specified otherwise.
Unsupported Platforms
The information in this guide does not apply to the following products:
• OmniSwitch 6800, 7700, 7800, or 8800
• OmniSwitch (original version with no numeric model name)
• Omni Switch/Router
• OmniStack
• OmniAccess