Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SONET Link NEXT-GENERATION MULTISERVICE PLATFORM
Never before have businesses been under such pressure to provide and support multiple high-bandwidth services while continuing to support traditional revenue-generating services. The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SONET Link provides the means to maximize bandwidth availability and to fill that bandwidth effectively.
Meeting Expanding Demands Working with SONET Businesses have invested billions of dollars in their SONET network infrastructures, their operations systems, and the personnel to run and maintain them. Customers, both consumers and businesses, are now demanding more services, more versatility and more bandwidth, and these demands are expected to continue to rise over the next few years. Consequently, SONET equipment is still called on to provide transport for new and existing services.
YOUR BENEFIT The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL offers SONET add/drop multiplexing, narrowband, wideband and broadband cross-connect functionality, plus DWDM. It supports a broad range of service interfaces and service features, such as virtual concatenation (VCAT), Gigabit Ethernet broadcasting, section, line and path performance monitoring right down to the DS1/DS3 level, and DS0 grooming.
Scalability for Increasing Capacity Legacy equipment makes it difficult for businesses to scale their networks to meet ever-changing demands for increased capacity and new high-bandwidth services. Upgrading the capacity of a traditional SONET ring can be a time-consuming and expensive process, often requiring the replacement of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment.
INTEROPERABILITY MULTIFUNCTIONALITY As businesses roll out new network equipment, this equipment must be integrated into their back-office environments and under their operations support systems (OSSs), which provide provisioning, monitoring and management of multiple vendors’ NEs. Hence, the network management architecture must provide standard, user-friendly, open interfaces to allow other third-party vendors to pick up support for the product.
directly onto a SONET network (see Figure 3). VCAT enables these operators to offer low-cost Ethernet services, while maintaining all the benefits of SONET networking and without requiring drastic changes to the network infrastructure or operational systems. Figure 3 - Ethernet Signals are mapped into SONET and then virtually concatenated Ethernet Streams SONET STS-1s VC Group STS-1...
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