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Alpine 3800 Series Switch Overview

The Alpine 3800 series switch is a chassis-based, Ethernet service provisioning switch designed for edge 
and aggregation applications. The Alpine 3800 series switch is flexible and scalable, making it easy for 
you to meet the changing requirements of your network. The combination of BlackDiamond, Alpine, 
and Summit switches delivers a consistent end-to-end network solution that provides a nonblocking 
architecture, wire-speed switching, wire-speed IP routing, and policy-based Quality of Service (QoS).

This chapter describes: 

Summary of Features

This section describes the features of the Alpine family of switches. If the information in the release 
notes differs from the information in this guide, follow the release notes. For more information about 
configuring the switch, refer to the ExtremeWare Software User Guide and The ExtremeWare Command 
Reference Guide.

The features of the Alpine 3800 series switch include:

A 9-slot chassis that can be populated with up to eight input/output (I/O) modules and one Switch 
Management Module (SMMi) (Alpine 3808)

A 5-slot chassis that can be populated with up to four I/O modules and one SMMi (Alpine 3804)

A 3-slot chassis that can be populated with up to three I/O modules (Alpine 3802)

I/O modules that are hot-swappable, and include Gigabit Ethernet or 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports

Redundant, load-sharing, hot-swappable power supplies (Alpine 3808 and Alpine 3804)

Field-replaceable, hot-swappable fan tray (Alpine 3808 and Alpine 3804)

Fully nonblocking operation

All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed

Autonegotiation for half-duplex or full-duplex operation on 10/100 Mbps ports

Load-sharing on multiple ports

VLANs, including support for IEEE 802.1Q