Service-Based Accounting
Instead of maintaining statistics on a per-port basis, the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR keeps statistics on a billable service basis, providing accurate measurement of each customer’s traffic and each individual service’s confor- mance to the offered SLA.
Service-Based Filtering
The Flexible Fast Path technology of the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR enables service providers to define and apply complex filters without performance impact, providing high levels of security and troubleshooting on a per-service basis, even at 10 Gb/s speeds. Global templates allow complex functions to be defined once and applied to individual ports or services as required.
Service-Aware Operational Toolkit
A key feature of the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR is its comprehensive set of service-aware tools that allow efficient operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning (OAM&P) of IP/MPLS networks and, more importantly, services.
The Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR supports a variety of protocols and custom-designed tools to help service providers verify correct operation on a per-service basis and trouble- shoot individual services should an issue arise, without the need for complex scripting and command line debugging of individual routers.
In addition to extensive service assurance and diagnostic tools, the Alcatel-Lucent
7750 SR supports a unique service mirroring function that mirrors traffic on a per-service or sub-interface basis, and re-encapsulates the mirrored data for transport through the core network. This enables an operator to see the actual traffic from any customer’s service at a central network operations center, reducing
