New Switches - 4800's

[bylie]

We just had a stock status update and it seems that the ERS 4800's will not be in stock here (Belgium) until the end of march or the beginning of april. We'll need the switches at the beginning of march so we're probably going to stick with the ERS 4500's for this job.

[Nanart]

A customer of ours wanted the 4500 series (to replace a faulty unit) and Avaya told him to order the 4800 series instead.  They just ordered and received ERS4826GTS switch still with a pre-production load.  Of course, they don't want that.
According to the 5.6 documentation, there is also licensing involved.  In addition, from what I can tell, he didn't order any licenses.  I don't have any sales and design engineering information on the 4800 series and haven't yet had the opportunity to get my hands on them to install.  Does anyone know how this switch should have ordered?

[Telair]

I would load the new v5.6 software on to the 4800 switch to bring it up to using production software.  The only licensing I know of is if you want to run OSPF on the switch.  Barring that you don't need licensing except what comes with the base unit.  The 4826GTS is a 24-port 10/100/1000 switch with two SFP or SFP+ GBIC ports.  It is not a PoE switch.  It sounds like a replacment for the 4536T to me.

[Michael McNamara]

A customer of ours wanted the 4500 series (to replace a faulty unit) and Avaya told him to order the 4800 series instead.  They just ordered and received ERS4826GTS switch still with a pre-production load.  Of course, they don't want that.
According to the 5.6 documentation, there is also licensing involved.  In addition, from what I can tell, he didn't order any licenses.  I don't have any sales and design engineering information on the 4800 series and haven't yet had the opportunity to get my hands on them to install.  Does anyone know how this switch should have ordered?

I believe the Ethernet Routing Switch 4500 series is covered by the lifetime warranty... assuming they have a spare or can wait for factory repair. I wouldn't advise mixing 4800 and 4500 series switches together. The product specs say it might work but I wouldn't want to be the first customers to "trial" it.

[Flintstone]

Guys,

From a recent Avaya data road map, It looks like the new ERS 4800 will also support SPBM in a future release?

CheerZ