Avaya a500 用户指南
Cajun A500 ATM Switch User Guide
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Cajun A500 ATM Switch
Overview
Overview
The Cajun A500 provides intelligent broadband transport for LAN switches, routers,
hosts (both servers and endstations), voice switches (PBXs), video communication
systems, multimedia servers, and other devices in a campus backbone. The Cajun A500
supports multiple network services, including data, voice, and video communications
and delivers multiple Quality of Service (QoS) levels to facilitate these services.
This release of the Cajun A500 ATM Switch provides:
U High-speed internetworking for either conventional layer two and layer three over
ATM configurations, such as IP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), or LAN
Emulation (LANE).
U Connectivity for LAN switches, routers, and servers.
The Cajun A500 is intended to provide a lower cost per port, compact chassis design than
ATM switches designed primarily for enterprise WAN or carrier applications. These
switches tend to have redundancy, port fanout, service adaptation (frame relay-to-ATM
interworking or integrated circuit emulation services, for example), and buffering
features not needed in a campus networking product.
Interoperability
The Cajun A500 supports interoperability with multiple network products, including:
U LAN switches (Bay Networks Centillion 50/100; Ciscos Catalyst 5000/5500)
U ATM switches (Fore ASX-200 and ASX-1000, Cisco LightStream 1010,
Lucents MX 1000, Cajun A750, and GlobeView 2000, 3COM Corebuilder,
and others)
U Routers (Bay, Cisco, 3Com)
U ATM attached servers (Sun, HP, Compaq) and Multimedia servers (Lucent MMCX)
U Video conference systems (via AAL1 Codecs) and Voice switches (Lucent Definity
ATM ECS)