Riverstone Networks 1850 TSS-320 manual Transforming Transport Networks

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Transforming Transport Networks

To stay profitable, service providers must focus on new revenue-generating services while carefully controlling their cost structures. At the same time, new bandwidth- hungry services, such as triple play and Ethernet virtual private networks (VPNs), are redefiining the underlying transport-infrastructure requirements. These changes are driving the move from circuit-based transport, using Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), to packet-based transport, using Ethernet in MANs and WANs.

Driven by end-user demand for new services, service-provider network capacity is growing rapidly, with these networks transporting a wide variety of traffic. Service providers all need to assess how their existing metro and core networks will accommodate trends and transitions in traffic patterns.

The new-services introduction is probably the most critical factor to a service provider’s success. The increasing demand for bandwidth to deliver new services is not reflected in comparable increases in revenue, presenting a significant business challenge. The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-320 helps service providers maximize their profiitability by transporting any service mix while keeping tight control of costs.

Features

Benefits

Single transport-aggregation platform

Seamlessly transports any type of service, in any mix

 

• Supports future traffic requirements

 

• Simplifies network operation, reducing OPEX

 

 

 

Open architecture

Integrates Ethernet and TDM switching

 

• Uses SONET/SDH and DWDM

 

ROADM functionality

 

• Splits increasing traffic demands among any combination

 

 

of transport technologies

 

 

 

Technology independent

Universal switch

 

• Switches packets or circuits in native format, avoiding

 

 

expensive mapping

 

Increases scalability

 

 

Technology-dependent line cards

Native traffic processing, including:

 

Overhead management

 

Performance-monitoring protections

 

Packet classification

 

Policing

 

Scheduling

 

 

 

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Contents Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-320 Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-320 Transport Service Switch Transforming Transport Networks Multitechnology Support With the Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-320 Any mix of Ethernet, TDM, Wave Division Universal SwitchShorten time-to-revenue for new services Traffic packets Migrating Toward a Packet Transport NetworkCarrier-to-carrier services Packet/TDM/lambda λ Offering User-Centric Broadband ServicesEthernet Business Services Mobile Backhaul Network ManagementRecognized World Leader Optical Networking Versatility and ScalabilityAlcatel-Lucent. All rights reserved. WLN2468071141