The Alpine 3800 series switch is a chassis-based, Ethernet service-provisioning switch designed for edge and aggregation applications. The Alpine 3800 series switch is flexible and scalable, making it easy for you to meet the changing requirements of your network. The combination of BlackDiamond, Alpine, and Summit switches delivers a consistent end-to-end network solution that provides a nonblocking architecture, wire-speed switching, wire-speed IP routing, and policy-based Quality of Service (QoS).The Alpine 3800 series chassis switches are ideally suited for delivering broadband IP services to metropolitan area networks (MANs), service provider and enterprise data centers, multi-tenant buildings and enterprise wiring closets. The Alpine platform provides total Ethernet coverage with support for both standard Category 5 and fiber optic media as well as first mile technologies that extend the reach of Ethernet over VDSL and legacy WAN technologies. The Alpine 3800 series includes the Alpine 3802, Alpine 3804 and Alpine 3808 switches. Every Alpine switch has a fully redundant power supply for increased fault tolerance. Additionally, all modules of the Alpine 3800 series are hot swappable and interchangeable. The Alpine 3808 has nine slots, the Alpine 3804 has five slots and the Alpine 3802 has 3 slots.