Design Reference
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: New in this release
- Chapter 3: Network design fundamentals
- Chapter 4: Hardware fundamentals and guidelines
- Chapter 5: Optical routing design
- Chapter 6: Platform redundancy
- Chapter 7: Link redundancy
- Chapter 8: Layer 2 loop prevention
- Chapter 9: Spanning tree
- Chapter 10: Layer 3 network design
- Chapter 11: SPBM design guidelines
- Chapter 12: IP multicast network design
- Multicast and VRF-lite
- Multicast and MultiLink Trunking considerations
- Multicast scalability design rules
- IP multicast address range restrictions
- Multicast MAC address mapping considerations
- Dynamic multicast configuration changes
- IGMPv3 backward compatibility
- IGMP Layer 2 Querier
- TTL in IP multicast packets
- Multicast MAC filtering
- Guidelines for multicast access policies
- Multicast for multimedia
- Chapter 13: System and network stability and security
- Chapter 14: QoS design guidelines
- Chapter 15: Layer 1, 2, and 3 design examples
- Chapter 16: Software scaling capabilities
- Chapter 17: Supported standards, RFCs, and MIBs
- Glossary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Purpose
This document provides information to help you build robust, efficient networks using the VSP
4000 platform.
You can use the examples and important design guidelines listed in this document for many
features and protocols.
Related resources
Documentation
See the Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 Documentation Roadmap, NN46251–100 for a
list of the documentation for this product.
Training
Ongoing product training is available. For more information or to register, you can access the
Web site at http://avaya-learning.com/.
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