Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch

I used to be part of an organization responsible for the quoting and deployment of Alcatel-Lucent Omniswitches on customer networks. Mainly focused on dedicated Hw appliances connected to either a SIP Trunk or PRI/BRI/Analog lines.

Manufacturing environments or areas where ntw connectivity was not so strong were strongly looking for solutions like this one as it gave them the agility to avoid being controlled on whether the data connection was working.

I think there are more agile and capable solutions in the market which don't rely on hw appliances or the need to have physical devices on premises. Cloud voice and UC solutions have developed (Teams with the SIP proxy for example) to enable more legacy ways of making calls into their environment.

Using analog gtws together with the cloud platforms allows the same use cases, without the need for OPEX which setting up a platform like this require.

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch helps us to discover the best switch that can fit our company operations. My team has been receiving the best marketing insights from various networking environments connected to our servers. It has created the best collaboration base with my partners and business colleagues. LAN across the entire company has created a suitable infrastructure for communication and controlling business processes. Faster internet speeds enhanced by effective connections have contributed to faster service delivery to our clients.

Our data management depends on the networking infrastructure and this product has provided all tools that are required. Our IT operations have been stable due to reliable security and networking services enhanced by this product. It easily identifies critical missions that may affect our operations and notify the service team for immediate action. My marketing department has discovered the most effective marketing channels that can attract more customers through a reliable internet connection.

We have some Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900 series switches with 10 GbE SFP+ ports in a distribution topology to concentrate some Dell and Alcatel access switches that we have in some units of the company. The model we use is the OS6900-X20 which has 20 10GbE SFP+ ports. This switch connects to Core Central which is located in the matrix. It is where the multimode and single-mode fibers are concentrated and the trunks of the VLANs are configured to create security and organization of the network.

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900 series switch is highly robust, technological, and perfectly suited to our purpose. It is rich in advanced routing features including BGP, OSPF, static, 10Gb and SFP+ ports, 40GbE QSF+, and stability with redundancy across hardware. It is ideal and we recommend it for distribution and network core scenarios. The price is much lower than the big switch leaders.