New Hardware

New Transceivers and Components

VOSS 8.4 introduces support for the following optical devices.

Extreme Networks might announce support for additional optical components in the future. For a complete and current list of supported optical components, see the Extreme Optics website.

5420 Series

Note

Note

Despite the presence of MACsec-capable ports on many of the 5420 Series models, this release does not support MACsec on the 5420 Series.

VOSS 8.4 supports the following new switching models:

In addition to the fixed ports, all models provide console interface ports (one micro Type B USB and one RJ-45), one RJ-out-of-band (OOB) management port (10/100/1000), and two USB ports for removable storage.

The 5420 Series also have two SFP-DD Universal Ethernet ports that can function as reserved ports for advanced features (factory default) or as Ethernet ports. When Advanced Feature Bandwidth Reservation is disabled, each port accepts one SFP+ optical device with 10 Gbps port speed. However, in this release, when you insert an SFP+ optical device in SFP-DD Universal Ethernet ports, only the first port obtained after channelization can be used. Ports on the second channel are blocked from traffic.

For more information, see VOSS User Guide.

Feature documentation is updated to include support statements specific to the new hardware.