Alcatel-Lucent OS6860-24D User Manual

STACKABLE LAN SWITCHES

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6860 Stackable LAN Switches (SLS) are compact, high-density 
Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) and 10 GigE platforms designed for the most demanding converged networks. 

In addition to high performance and 
availability, the OmniSwitch 6860 offers 
enhanced quality of service (QoS), user 
authentication, deep packet inspection 
(DPI) and comprehensive security 
features to secure the network edge while 
accommodating user and device mobility 
with a high degree of integration between 

the wired and wireless LAN. The enhanced 
models of the OmniSwitch 6860 family 
also supports emerging services such as 
application fingerprinting for network 
analytics and up to 60 watts of Power 
over Ethernet (PoE) per port, making it 
ready to meet the evolving business  
needs of enterprise networks.

These versatile LAN switches can  
be positioned: 

•  At the edge of mid- to large-sized 

converged enterprise networks 

•  At the aggregation layer
•  In a small enterprise network core
•  In the data center for GigE server 

connectivity and SDN applications

•  Versatile features and models offering high-density 

Gigabit and 10 Gigabit interfaces

•  Up to eight switches can be connected using Virtual 

Chassis technology to create a single chassis-like 
entity with up to 32 10 Gigabit uplinks and 384 
Gigabit ports  

•  With the variety of interfaces and models, the OmniSwitch 6860 family 

meets any customer configuration need and offers excellent investment 
protection and flexibility. 

•  The OmniSwitch 6860 Virtual Chassis increases system redundancy, 

resiliency and high availability while simplifying deployment, operations  
and management of the network.  

•  IEEE 802.3af and 802.3at compliant PoE of 30 W per 

port on all ports

•  The enhanced models of the OmniSwitch 6860 family 

support up to 60 W of PoE per port on four ports 

With its advanced PoE capabilities and high density of PoE ports, the 
OmniSwitch 6860 is ideal for converged campus deployments by offering 
deployment flexibility, simplifying the wiring and reducing the time to 
deploy edge devices such as VoIP phones, surveillance cameras, 802.11ac 
access points and emerging devices that require higher than 30 W, such 
as video displays or even a small network switch or a thin virtual desktop 
infrastructure (VDI) client. 

•  Hardware-accelerated DPI available on all models
•  Application monitoring and fingerprinting are available 

on the enhanced models  

•  DPI technology allows for real-time classification of flows at the application 

level, monitoring and QoS treatment to assign higher priority and more 
bandwidth to business-critical applications. 

•  By enabling the application monitoring functionality on the OmniSwitch 

6860, network administrators can obtain a comprehensive view of up  
to 1000 applications running in the network. This type of visibility can  
be used to optimize the performance of the network as well as apply 
adequate control.