Extreme BlackDiamond 8800 Switches

The versatile BlackDiamond 8800 family provides the universal port for IP Telephony with integrated support for Power over Ethernet at gigabit data rates. Available in 10-slot and 6-slot models, BlackDiamond 8800 series switches provide voice-class availability and power at every port, making it the ideal modular unified access solution for a combined edge and aggregation solution in a converged network. BlackDiamond 8800 series switches have a variety of choice in their Gigabit Ethernet modules to provide the optimized solution for gigabit access edge as well as gigabit aggregation. The aggregation optimized I/O modules provide non-blocking local switching and backplane connectivity for up to 48 gigabits of port bandwidth. This unprecedented performance also makes BlackDiamond 8800 series ideal for medium enterprise cores and as an interconnect switch for high-performance computing applications. The highly redundant chassis design and system architecture provide voice-class availability at any network location. Our revolutionary ExtremeXOS? operating system, the industry's first truly modular network operating system, increases availability over and beyond the chassis level high availability design. Self-healing process restart ensures that the switch can recover from failures without rebooting the entire operating system. Software modules can be loaded or upgraded dynamically, and the ExtremeXOS architecture also supports hitless software failover and upgrades.