Multiple Applications
Potential applications for the 1850 TSS-3 include:
•Ethernet demarcation
•Ethernet service aggregation
•Ethernet over PDH (EoPDH)
•Ethernet extension
In Figure 1, the 1850 TSS-3 is in the Ethernet- demarcation role, with the demarcation point shown as a dotted line, representing the point where a single stream of traffic crosses from
Figure 1. Ethernet Demarcation
the customer-owned equipment to the service- provider-owned customer premises equipment (CPE). At the demarcation point, the 1850 TSS-3 accepts a single traffic stream on the customer side and transports this traffic to one or more network elements in a carrier Ethernet network. This application offers fault diagnostics and monitoring, traffic rate limiting and virtual LAN (VLAN) stacking (capability of offering multiple, discrete VLANs over a single connection).
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TSS-3
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Carrier Ethernet
Network
(Ethernet or MSPP
or WDM-based)
WDM – Wavelength Division Multiplexing MSPP – Multiservice Provisioning Platform
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In Figure 2, the 1850 TSS-3 is in an Ethernet service-aggregation configuration, in this case acting as a carrier-class Ethernet switch, accepting multiple inputs from the customer side and aggregat- ing them for onward transmission on the network side. Network-side redundancy can be provided by Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol or Ethernet dual homing, two methods for providing automatic backup paths.
Figure 2. Ethernet Service Aggregation
1850 TSS-3 | Metro Ethernet | 1850 TSS-3 |
| Network | |
(Ethernet or MSPP or CWDM-based)
DemarcationDemarcation
CWDM – Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
4Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-3 Transport Service Switch
