The Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP) is a feature-rich, highly scalable, multiservice platform optimized to deliver IP/MPLS and ATM-based services reliably and concurrently. The platform is ideal for service providers seeking to preserve and expand current services while transition- ing towards an IP/MPLS infrastructure.
With separate control planes for IP/MPLS and ATM, the Alcatel 7670 RSP has been uniquely designed to support a wide range of services including IP-VPNs, Layer 2 VPNs, Ethernet, ATM, and frame relay. The Alcatel 7670 RSP also offers comprehensive network and service inter- working capabilities leveraging standards- based approaches over both MPLS and ATM. Furthermore, the Alcatel 7670 RSP supports high-density, channelized, multi- service cards that offer outstanding flexibility with the ability to support multiple concur- rent services at different speeds on a single card.
Designed to accommodate traffic growth, the Alcatel 7670 RSP scales rapidly and without service interruption from 50 Gb/s to 450 Gb/s (full duplex, redundant). The breadth of supported configurations ensures optimal node deployments at multiple sites of varying size.
As a highly reliable, carrier-grade plat- form, the Alcatel 7670 RSP provides full common equipment redundancy. Facility protection capabilities include automatic protection switching (APS) for SONET/ SDH interfaces and link aggregation group (LAG) for Ethernet interfaces. With the addition of MPLS fast reroute (FRR), non-stop routing, non-stop signaling and non-stop forwarding, the result is a high- availability architecture at all levels pro- viding the foundation for true end-to-end, non-stop Layer 2 and Layer 3 services.
The industry-leading Alcatel 5620 Network Manager (NM) provides a single management platform to seamlessly manage both legacy and IP/MPLS services. Only Alcatel can provide a single tool for auto- mated end-to-end provisioning of both label switched paths (LSPs) and VCs across multiple platforms, monitoring and enforce- ment of service level agreements (SLAs), and open interfaces that enable simple integration into any OSS environment.
The Alcatel 7670 RSP is deployed in over 110 of the world’s largest fixed and mobile service provider networks world- wide. Its unique platform enables the deployment of flexible, scalable, highly reliable and manageable networks capable of supporting both today’s requirements and tomorrow’s evolution.
