Built particularly for the backbone, the 16-slot X-Pedition 8600 switch router combines wire-speed performance at gigabit rates, pinpoint control of application flows, and superior routing capacity to ensure high availability of internal and external networks including. Built particularly for the backbone, the 16-slot X-Pedition 8600 switch router combines wire-speed performance at gigabit rates, pinpoint control of application flows, and superior routing capacity to ensure high availability of internal and external networks including. The new Virtual Services Platform 8600 Series is Avaya's next-generation, high-performance, small-format Chassis-based Modular Ethernet Switching platform. It is positioned as highly scalable platform delivering a broad range of interface connectivity - Gigabit through to 100 Gigabit - and intended. The Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 or ERS 8600, previously known as the Passport 8600 or the Accelar 8000, is a modular chassis combination hardware router and switch used in computer networking. The system, originally designed and manufactured by Nortel, was manufactured by Avaya from 2009. The Cisco 8608 is a Q200-based, 7-RU router that provides 12. 8Tbps of network bandwidth and supports centralized architecture. Built particularly for the backbone, the 16-slot X-Pedition 8600 switch router combines wire-speed performance at gigabit rates.