Alcatel has announced an entry version of its 9000 line of 10 Gbps Ethernet switches. The OmniSwitch 9600 is designed for small enterprise cores, in the aggregation layer, and also in wiring closets due to its compact form factor and flexible power-over-Ethernet support. The OS9600 provides support for future applications including video-over-IP and Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop, and features wire-rate processing for IPv4/IPv6 unicast and multicast applications.