The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS Family
New bandwidth-hungry services, such as triple play and Ethernet virtual private networks (VPNs), are placing great demands on the existing trans- port infrastructure. To remain profitable, businesses and service providers are embracing these new revenue-generating services by moving from circuit-based transport, using TDM, to packet-based transport, using Ethernet.
The new-services introduction is probably the most critical factor to a service provider’s success. The increasing demand for bandwidth for these new services is not reflected in comparable increases in revenue, presenting a significant business challenge. The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS helps businesses maximize their profitability by transporting any service mix while keeping strict control of the costs.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS is a family of multiservice packet-transport products supporting any mix of traffic, from all-circuit to all-packet. With these products, businesses and service providers can build highly flexible networks that transition from circuit to packet transport gradually, as packet capacity is required, but without disrupting existing traffic or paying for expensive overlay networks. The 1850 TSS family optimizes network efficiencies by aggregating native signals and allowing transport of both packets and circuits.
Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-5 Transport Service Switch 3