Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 3600 MainStreet Business Access Portfolio, Architecture

MainStreet Business Access Portfolio

Architecture

The information provided in this section is intended to provide a functional overview of each product. At the end of this section, you will find a table summarizing the applications supported and interfaces available for each product in the Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio.

Multiservice Access Platforms (MAPs)

Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice

Bandwidth Manager

The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is a flexible, scalable and intelligent networking node that combines the functions of an integrated voice and data multiplexer, a frame relay and X.25 switch, a low capacity ATM access node, an intelligent channel

bank, and a digital cross-connect switch. The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager accommodates network evolution and protects investment by enabling customers to integrate narrowband legacy services and broadband or IP-based networks.

The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is ideal for access networks that support multiple TDM and packet/cell services, including:

>Packet/cell: ATM, frame relay, voice over frame relay (VoFR), X.25

>TDM: leased lines, voice, data, and voice compression

Offering a wide range of advanced business services, the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is the most successful digital overlay platform ever built, with over 180,000 nodes installed worldwide, and growing.

The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager can be used:

>To concentrate circuit-switched, packet- and cell-based voice and data traffic

>To offer leased line services – from subrate to 2 Mb/s (n*64 kb/s)

>As an international gateway, providing E1/T1, E3/T3 and ISDN interfaces with signaling and superate conversion, line and circuit grooming and voice compression

>As a low- to medium-capacity 3/0 and 1/0 digital access and cross-connect system (DACS)

>As an intelligent channel bank

Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice

Bandwidth Manager

The Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager builds on the highly successful architecture of the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager. It provides a scalable option to meet the increasing demand for multiple services and higher bandwidth on a single platform. In addition to offering all of the capabilities of the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet

Multiservice Bandwidth Manager, the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager offers fiber optic and electrical interfaces at STM-1/OC-3 speeds. It supports a wide range of circuit- and packet-based voice and data services, and is fully compatible with the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager, providing seamless integra- tion into existing networks and protecting equipment investment.

The Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is ideal for access networks that support multiple services, including packet and TDM with the requirement for connection to higher speed fiber optic backbones and metropolitan area networks/wide area networks (MANs/WANs).

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