AlliedWare Plus

AlliedWare Plus is a Layer 3 network operating system developed by Allied Telesis for its enterprise network switches, and later its routers and firewalls. It succeeds the earlier AlliedWare system and was released in 2007. It combines command line and graphical management with routing, switching and internetworking functions in a multitasking system for IPv4 and IPv6 Ethernet networks. Its main interface is an industry-standard command line built on multiple-word commands, where the mode the user is in decides which commands are available and configuration commands need a higher privilege level than information commands; a web-based graphical interface is also offered. Besides standards-based features it adds proprietary technologies such as VCStack for resilient stacking, EPSRing for resilient ring topologies, AMF for simpler network management and Active Fiber Monitoring for secure fibre links. Releases are numbered in the form a.b.c-d.e, where the last two numbers mark minor and maintenance updates. The system is Linux-based but commercial and proprietary, and it is listed as a current product.