It leverages Nortel Networks' unmatched experience in delivering high-availability systems for carriers, service providers and financial markets. As a result, it is the ideal platform for enterprise network managers wishing to deploy unified networks for the new millennium. The Accelar 8000 features a highly fault-tolerant chassis, enabling it to deliver unprecedented levels of resilience and availability. The Accelar 8000 chassis features a passive switching architecture that is designed to provide high availability for the wide range of supported technologies.
All power supplies can be hot-swapped.
Both AC and DC power supplies are available, allowing the chassis to be deployed in both enterprise and service provider networks. The chassis provides system monitoring and automated reporting of component failure for power supplies, fans, system modules and interface modules. Accelar 8000 supports distributed switching and management, eliminating single points of failure and providing total system resilience. This eliminates the single point of failure found in many trunking implementations that terminate on a single module in the chassis. LinkSafe backbone and riser connections provide recovery from cabling failures in microseconds, ensuring maximum uptime for critical business applications.