Comments on: Nortel ERS 8600 Software 7.0 – Coming Soon

By: Avaya ERS 8600 Software 7.0 Draft Release Notes | Michael McNamara

Avaya ERS 8600 Software 7.0 Draft Release Notes | Michael McNamara — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:27:17 +0000

[...] to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.You’ll recall that back in December 2009 I wrote a post about the upcoming release of 7.0 software the the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. At that time the [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:38:38 +0000

This really won’t effect us much. We use quite a few E and M modules. Unless we could pick up some R/RS modules used at a good price, we’ll continue to use what we have for the next several years.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:25:24 +0000

No and No

All R modules in our chassis and OSPF

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:07:35 +0000

Hi Derrick,

I think it’s safe enough for us to ready between the lines here on this one. You’ll need a 8629SF/CPU w/Mezz if you want to run 7.0 software or any future release. It’s more important to note that any non-E, E, or M modules won’t run on 7.0 software, only R and RS modules will run.

This just means that you won’t be able to take advantage of the new software and it’s features. This doesn’t mean that Nortel is going to immediately abandon 4.1.x or 5.1.x software but the writing is on the wall especially given the acquisition by Avaya and the need to control the number of supported releases.

Cheers!

By: derrickw

derrickw — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:35:17 +0000

Will Nortel assure software development and support for non mezz 8692sf (and older) platforms? Would we need to upgrade sometime in the next 5 years?

-derrick

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:48:51 +0000

Thanks for the confirmation Chris!

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:48:10 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Mark… it’s funny that Linux is bringing them this feature more so than anything. Please keep us up-to-date on your experience with the VSP9000.

Cheers!

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:46:04 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Robert. Are you using RIP at all? or RS modules?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:39:39 +0000

We’ve had a couple of iterations of the VSP9000 in house. The one they just delivered Tuesday looks solid. It looks like out of the box it will be an 8600 on steriods with a ton of 10gig capacity. I’ve been waiting for a truly hitless patching of an enterprise core switch for 20 years!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:36:06 +0000

Michael,

MERS is not part of the Nortel Enterprise solutions and Nortel Government solutions product portfolio that was acquired by Avaya.

-Chris

Former Nortel ER/Now Avaya ER