Alcatel-Lucent OS6450-24 OS6450-24-CH User Manual

STACKABLE GIGABIT ETHERNET 

LAN SWITCH FAMILY 

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6450 Stackable Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet LAN value 
switch family offers versatile, 24/48-port fixed configuration switches with optional upgrade 
paths for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) stacking, 10 GigE uplinks and metro Ethernet services. 

Offering a design optimized for flexibility and scalability as well as low power consumption, 
the OmniSwitch 6450 is an outstanding edge solution. It uses the field-proven Alcatel-Lucent 
Operating System (AOS) to deliver highly available, secure, self-protective, easily managed  
and eco-friendly networks. 

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6450  
family is embedded with the latest tech-
nology innovations, and offers maximum 
investment protection.

Deployments benefiting from the 
OmniSwitch 6450 family are:

•  Edge of small-to-mid-sized networks 
•  Branch office enterprise and campus 

workgroups 

•  Residential and commercially managed 

services applications 

•  24-port and 48-port, Power over Ethernet 

(PoE), non-PoE and 24-port fiber models 
with two fixed small form factor pluggable 
(SFP+) 10-G-ready interfaces

•  Scalability from 24 to 384 Fast Ethernet 

and gigabit ports and 16 10 GigE ports 

•  Optional SFP+ stacking module  
•  Optional 10 GigE uplink license option 
•  Optional metro services feature license for 

service provider deployments 

•  Support for IEEE 802.3af as well as IEEE 

802.3at-compliant PoE 

•  Internal AC or DC redundant power supplies  

•  AOS field-proven software with 

management through web interface 
(WebView), command line interface  
(CLI), and Simple Network Management 
Protocol (SNMP) 

•  Ethernet operations, administration and 

management (OA&M) support for service 
configuration and monitoring 

•  Support by Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista™ 

2500 Network Management System (NMS)

•  Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware 

Manager (SAM) applications for  
service providers 

•  Flexible device and user authentication 

with Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian (IEEE 
802.1x/MAC/captive portal) with Host 
Integrity Check (HIC) enforcement

•  Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) and 

Access Control Lists (ACLs) for traffic 
control, including an embedded denial of 
service (DoS) engine to filter out unwanted 
traffic attacks 

•  Extensive support of user-oriented 

features such as learned port security 
(LPS), port mapping, Dynamic Host 
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) binding 
tables and User Network Profile (UNP) 

•  Advanced layer-2+ features with basic 

layer-3 routing for both IPv4 and IPv6 

•  Triple speed (10/100/1000) user 

interfaces and fiber interfaces (SFPs) 
supporting 100Base X or 1000Base-X 
optical transceivers 

•  10 G uplinks with license installed