Catalyst 3850 and Alcatel Omniswitch 6850

[hombrezuelo]

Hi dear brothers and sisters, We are looking to refresh our legacy Alcatel Omniswitch 6850 with Cisco Catalyst 3850,  this is the actual scenario:

router---->Alcatel Omniswitch 6850----optical fiber------->Alcatel Omniswtich 6850

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          Alcatel Omniswitch 6400 48 POE                               Alcatel Omniswitch 6405 48 POE

              ( Stack in total 4 switches )                                       ( Stack in total 2 switches )           

And this is our proposal

router---->Cisco Catalyst 3850----optical fiber----------->Cisco Catalyst 3850

                               |                                                                             |

                               |                                                                             |

                               |                                                                             |

          Alcatel Omniswitch 6400 48 POE                               Alcatel Omniswitch 6405 48 POE

              ( Stack in total 4 switches )                                       ( Stack in total 2 switches )

As you can see, the Alcatel Omniswitch 680 is layer 3 and is doing inter vlan routing.

Please someone can point me in the right direction to achieve this mission? I would like to know if is it possible to get up the proposal scenario? is there issues, incompatibility between Catalyst and Omniswitch?

Thanks in advance.

[balaji.bandi]

Replacing with 3850 is not an issue you can workout and config what is required.

only question here, how is your exiting access switch connected ? L2 or L3 ? between 6850 to 6400.

[hombrezuelo]

Hi BB thank you for answering, our access switch is by L2

[hombrezuelo]

Okay, BB I`m looking for a technical paper or something like that to know what do I need to configure for get up the connection between catalyst 3850 and omniswitch 6850, is it possible to get support from cisco for this case? the purchase order is in process would be wonderful if some help from them.

[balaji.bandi]

Suggest to contact local Cisco partner/SE for this migration. so any ongoing issue can be mitigate without any service interruption.