INTEROPERABILITY
As businesses roll out new network equip- ment, 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 manage- ment architecture must provide standard, user-friendly, open interfaces to allow other third-party vendors to pick up sup- port for the product. This enables them to provide comprehensive management such as end-to-end provisioning and monitoring across multiple NEs. The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL is designed with the goal of deployment in a carrier-class environment and includes development for open inter- faces for OSS integration. The Alcatel- Lucent 1677 SL supports interworking standards such as open systems inter- connection (OSI) and target ID address resolution protocol (TARP), and these allow integration with other vendors’ systems.
MULTIFUNCTIONALITY
Any new capital expenditure must be justified by increased revenues and prof- itability, and the Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL provides these benefits. For example, its multi-ring feature allows numerous users and circuits to be supported on one NE, thus eliminating the need for multiple NEs (see Figure 2). This decrease in equipment use results in an immediate reduction
in CAPEX, followed by ongoing savings in OPEX.
In addition to the valuable protection and restoration capabilities of SONET, the Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL offers businesses the opportunity to deliver Gigabit Ethernet services. The Gigabit Ethernet interface of the Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL makes use of leading-edge technology to permit the transport of data services over the existing SONET infrastructure. This capability enables new revenue sources in return for compellingly low deployment costs.
Alcatel-Lucent was one of the first vendors to support VCAT, the standard that enables businesses to map Ethernet
Figure 2 - Multi-Ring Capability
OC-192 BLSR
OC-192 | OC-12 | OC-48 |
UPSR | UPSR | UPSR |
OC-48 UPSR
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