Technical Specifications



BlackDiamond 6808 and 6816 Switches

The BlackDiamond 6808 and 6816 chassis are uniquely designed with carrier-class fault tolerance for IP data networks that require the highest level of availability as well as scalability from 10/100BASE-T to 1 Gigabit and Ten Gigabit Ethernet. Both switches provide wire-speed Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching for consistent performance regardless of traffic patterns or network load.






BlackDiamond 6808

  • The BlackDiamond 6808 supports up to 64 Gigabit Ethernet ports when populated with the 8-port G8Xi or G8Ti modules, and 96 Gigabit Ethernet ports when populated with the G12SXi module.
  • The BlackDiamond 6808 supports a maximum of 768 10/100 Mbps ports when fully populated with the F96Ti, or 224 100BASE-FX ports with fully populated with the F32F module.
BlackDiamond 6816
  • The BlackDiamond 6816 leads the industry in density with up to 192 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single chassis.
  • The BlackDiamond 6816 supports a maximum of 1,152 10/100BASE-TX ports when fully populated with the F96Ti. In addition, when fully
    populated with the F48Ti,the BlackDiamond chassis will accommodate a maximum of 576 10/100BASE-TX ports, or 448 100BASE-FX ports when fully populated with the F32F module.
  • The BlackDiamond 6816 supports a maximum of 128 Gigabit Ethernet ports when fully populated with the G8Xi and G8Ti modules, or 192 Gigabit Ethernet ports when fully populated with the G12SXi modules.


Features

  • Passive backplane supports dual--redundant, load-sharing and hot-swappable switch fabric modules
  • Quad-redundant management CPUs
  • Most advanced resiliency and fault tolerance:
    • Redundant load--sharing Management Switch fabric Modules
    • Hot-swappable modules, power supplies and fan tray
    • Fully redundant, load-sharing power supplies
    • Dual switch configurations and ExtremeWare images
    • Extreme Standby Router Protocol (ESRP™)
    • OSPF Equal Cost Multipath Routing (ECMP)
  • WDM optical broadband networking
  • MPLS Edge routing (PoS) and BGP4
  • Policy-Based QoS including prioritization, bandwidth management and congestion control
  • Wire-Speed IP/IPX Routing and wire-speed switching
  • Wire-Speed server load balancing, web cache redirection, VLAN switching and routing, DiffServ and IEEE 802.1p and IETF DiffServ
  • 4,096 IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
  • IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation, and redundant PHY
  • Access control lists Access profiles, RADIUS, SSH2, and network login
  • Extensive management via local and remote (telnet) CLI, SNMP, RMON and HTTP
  • Switch and route jumbo frames
  • Industry--leading Layer 3 switching performance, availability and port density
    • 6808 Non-blocking 128 Gbps backplane yields over 96 million packet per second throughput
    • 6816 Non-blocking 256 Gbps backplane yields over 192 million packet per second throughput
  • Reduction in network complexity and cost of ownership, plus scaling performance and increased resiliency
    • 6808 96 1000BASE-X,576 10/100BASE-TX or 224 100BASE-FX ports in a single 6808 chassis
    • 6816 192 1000BASE-T or 192 1000BASE-X ports,1,152 10/100BASE-TX ports, or 448 100BASE-FX ports in a single 6816 chassis

BlackDiamond 6808 and 6816 Product Specifications

Performance
BlackDiamond 6808
128 Gbps non-blocking bandwidth
Route/filter/forward 96 million pps
BlackDiamond 6816
256 Gbps non-blocking bandwidth

Protocols and Standards
RIP
RFC 1058 RIP v1
RFC 1058 RIP v2
OSPF
RFC 2328 OSPF v2
RFC 1587 OSPF NSSA
RFC 2154 OSPF w/ Digital Signatures
(password, MD-5)
BGP4
RFC 1771 BGP4 
RFC 1965 AS Confederations for BGP
RFC 1966 BGP Route Reflection
RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute
RFC 1745 BGP/OSPF Interaction
IP Multicast
RFC 2362 PIM-SM
PIM-DM Draft IETF PIM-DM v2-dm-03
RFC 1122 DVMRP Host Requirements
DVMRP v3 Draft IETF DVMRP v3-07
RFC 2236 IGMP v2
IGMP with Configurable Router
Registration Forwarding
General Routing
RFC 1812 Router Requirements
RFC 1519 CIDR
RFC 1256 IRDP Router Discovery
RFC 783 TFTP
RFC 951 BootP
RFC 2131 BootP/DHCP Helper
RFC 1591 DNS (client operation)
RFC 1122 Host Requirements
RFC 768 UDP
RFC 791 IP
RFC 792 ICMP
RFC 793 TCP
RFC 826 ARP
Extreme Standby Router Protocol™
(ESRP™)
Policy-Based Quality of Service
IEEE802.1D-1998 (802.1p) Packet Priority
RFC 2474 DiffServ Precedence
RFC 2598 DiffServ Expedited Forwarding
RFC 2597 DiffServ Assured Forwarding
RFC 2475 DiffServ Core and Edge Router
Functions
Bidirectional Rate Shaping
Layer 1-4, Layer 7 (user name) Policy-Based
Mapping
Policy-Based Mapping/Overwriting of
DiffServ code points and 802.1p priority
VLANs
IEEE802.1Q VLAN Tagging
IEEE802.3ad Draft - static configuration
GVRP (Generic VLAN Registration Protocol)
Port, MAC, and Protocol-sensitive

Physical Dimensions
BlackDiamond 6808
(H) 26.25 in x (W) 17.32 in x (D) 18 in
(H) 66.68 cm x (W) 43.99 cm x (D) 45.72 cm
Weight - Empty:60 lbs (27 kg)
Weight - Fully loaded:170 lbs (76.5 kg)
Weight - One AC power supply:30 lbs (13.5 kg)
Weight - One module:5 lbs (2.25 kg)
BlackDiamond 6816
(H) 61.25 in x (W) 19 in x (D) 19 in
(H) 155.57 cm x (W) 48.26 xm x (D) 48.26 cm
Weight - Empty: 75.4 lbs
Weight - Loaded: 360 lbs (160 kg)
Weight - One AC power supply: 30 lbs (13.5 kg)
Weight - One MSM blade: 5.8 lbs (2.61 kg)
Weight - One F48Ti blade: 7.35 lbs (3.31 kg)
Weight - One fan tray: 7.2 lbs (3.24 kg)
Weight - One backplane: 70 lbs (31.5 kg)

Heat Dissipation
Power Supply 680 watt Maximum
(2325 BTU/hr)
Input Voltage Operations:
100 - 120 VAC
and 200 - 240 VAC, autoranging

Management and Security

Management

RFC 1157 SNMP v1/v2c
RFC 1907 SNMP v2
RFC 1757 RMON 4 groups: Statistics,
History, Alarms, and Events
RFC 2021 RMON2 (probe config)
RFC 2668 MAU
RFC 1493 Bridge MIB
RFC 1213 MIB-II
RFC 2037 Entity MIB
RFC 2233 Interface MIB
RFC 2096 IP Forwarding
RFC 1724 RIP v2 MIB
ExtremeWare Private MIB (incliude ACL,
QoS and VLAN config)
RFC 1866 HTML
RFC 2068 HTTP
RFC 854 Telnet
HTML and Telnet Management
Configuration logging
Multiple ExtremeWare images and
configurations
Multiple syslog servers
999 Local Messages (criticals stored
across reboots)
RFC 1769 v3 Simple Network
Time Protocol
Security
FIPS-186 (Federal Information Processing
Standards Publication 186) SSH2
RFC 1851 3DES-CBC cipher
RFC 2792 DSA key exchange
TACACS+
RFC 2138 RADIUS
RFC 2139 RADIUS Accounting
Access Profiles on All Routing Protocols
Access Profiles on All Management Methods
Denial of Service Protection
RFC 267 Network Ingress Filtering
RPF (Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding) control
Wire-speed ACLs
Rate Limiting by ACLs
IP Broadcast Forarding Control
ICMP and IP-Option Response Control
Server Load Balancing with Layer 3,
4 Protection of Servers
SYN attack protection
Unidirectional Session Control