Product Overview

Designed for enterprise data center, wiring closet and small core applications, this versatile family of stackable Ethernet switches offers high levels of performance and a range of advanced capabilities.

FEATURES

Improve application responsiveness
The 5000 Series features high-performance virtual hot-swap capability with industry-leading capacity to enhance and optimize application responsiveness.

Get the performance you need
This highly versatile family of switches has models to suit a variety of advanced enterprise requirements, including switch cluster, horizontal stacking and aggregation.

Lower your Total Cost of Ownership
By delivering the best price per port for high-performance Gigabit Ethernet, the 5000 Series offers a lower total cost of ownership.

Description

Designed for enterprise data center, wiring closet and small core applications, this versatile family of stackable Ethernet switches offers high levels of performance and a range of advanced capabilities. Features include an industry-leading resilient stacking capacity, advanced routing, QoS, convergence, and security capabilities. Support for Switch Clustering in small networks is also available.

The Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series includes the original 5500 models and the new 5600 models; all are fully Stack-compatible offering both excellent investment protection and a straightforward way to accessing the latest and greatest hardware. This product line features the Industry's leading resilient Stacking solution - Avaya's 'Stackable Chassis' - and can boast to be the only product to pass the Terabit barrier for Stacking capacity.