Description
- This Nortel Alteon Web Switching Module (WSM) brings all the capabilities of Alteon award-winning stackable Web Switches to a modular format that is affordable, scalable, and easy to customize for every users unique needs. This Alteon WSM is designed to enable a highly available data center with no single point of failure. Central to that design is the use of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (RFC 2338), ensuring fast fail-over in the event of failure. This Alteon WSM can operate in active/
This Nortel Alteon Web Switching Module (WSM) brings all the capabilities of Alteon award-winning stackable Web Switches to a modular format that is affordable, scalable, and easy to customize for every users unique needs. This Alteon WSM is designed to enable a highly available data center with no single point of failure. Central to that design is the use of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (RFC 2338), ensuring fast fail-over in the event of failure. This Alteon WSM can operate in active/active, active/standby, and hot standby modes to ensure non-stop operations while providing parallel processing of Web traffic.