Allied Telesis Virtual Chassis Stacking (VCStack™) solution ensures a network with no single point of failure, and a single management entity. As well as connecting collocated switches, a VCStack can be formed over long distance fiber links for a truly distributed network core. Whether your virtual chassis is located in the same equipment rack, or distributed across the campus, VCStack provides resiliency, scalability and ease of management.
The Allied Telesis Virtual Chassis Stacking (VCStack) solution ensures a network with no single point of failure and a single management entity. It supports connecting collocated switches as well as forming stacks over long-distance fiber links for truly distributed network cores, whether located in the same equipment rack or across a campus.
With VCStack, Allied Telesis provides full network bandwidth and routing power availability during normal operation. The solution offers device and path resiliency through link aggregation, simple effective management by presenting multiple switches as a single virtual chassis, and reliable virtualization with fast failover capabilities.
VCStack members can be located up to 10 kilometres apart.
If a link or device fails, the network remains fully operational while some bandwidth or forwarding power is reduced.
Yes, new devices can be added to the stack prior to being physically connected with provisioning.