Alcatel-Lucent 7250 SAS
S E R V I C E A C C E S S S W I T C H
The Alcatel-Lucent 7250 Service Access Switch (SAS) is a feature-rich customer edge device, purpose-built to increase service-provider revenues and deliver a complete portfolio of Carrier Ethernet services to enterprises. The 7250 SAS is Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 9 and MEF 14 certified and supports Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Ethernet, circuit emulation, and operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) tools. It is managed by the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM). The 7250 SAS enables service providers to increase revenues through enhanced service offerings and allows enterprise customers to expand capabilities and decrease costs.
The Alcatel-Lucent 7250 SAS gives service providers a competitive edge by cost-effectively extending service intelligence to the customer edge. By extending service intelligence to the customer premises, the 7250 SAS allows service providers to extend service level agreements (SLAs) to the customer premises and provides access to more enhanced Carrier Ethernet services such as virtual private local area network (LAN) services (VPLS) and virtual private wire services (VPWS), which support the increasing demands of enterprise data, voice and video applications. In addition, the 7250 SAS enables service providers to transpar- ently carry Time Division Multiplexing- (TDM) based voice and data applica- tions across an IP/MPLS backbone to
enable new circuit emulation services (CES) and support TDM backhauling applications such as Private Branch Exchange (PBX) backhaul and leased line replacement.
The 7250 SAS gives enterprise customers a competitive advantage by reducing their leased line costs when connectivity is provided by the service provider. The 7250 SAS also increases the services that enterprises can provide to their internal customers. All the benefits of the 7250 SAS gained by a service pro- vider that offers services to enterprises can be realized by enterprise customers who decide to install and manage their own private networks.
