Mobile Backhaul
Wireless network traffic is increasing significantly as subscribers use their mobile phones more and new, wireless data services are introduced, such as video telephony, music, Internet surfiing and live television, along with video-on-demand (VoD), for example, information, football, movie trailers and clips. Price-based competition makes profitable growth a challenge. Nevertheless, service providers are forced to invest in new infrastructure to serve their customers’ needs. Should they expand with TDM technology for more capacity now and worry about strategically evolving to 3G and all-IP later, or can they expand innovatively, making the network better now, but also anticipating future requirements?
The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-320 addresses both options, providing a fully fexible and reliable transport platform, both Ethernet- and TDM-based, that meets today’s growth requirements and opens the door for a strategic move toward an IP-based infrastructure.
Network Management
The Alcatel 1350 Open Media Suite (OMS) management suite eliminates the need to deploy multi- technology element and network management systems, reducing CAPEX and OPEX. It offers a highly modular architecture to properly match service-provider requirements, offering incremental investments that are in step with demand. Service providers need to focus on the service, rather than the technology, where it is used, how the network scales and how complex it is. By migrating from a technology-based network management model to a service-oriented one, the complexity of managing services is greatly reduced.
Masking the complexity of the underlying network is the job of the Alcatel-Lucent
1350 OMS management suite, offering:
•Simplified presentation of a multitechnology network to the user:
¬Point-and-click service delivery
¬Essential filtered alarms and fault detection
¬Simple, service-oriented graphical user interface (GUI)
•Future-safe, scalable platform that can be extended as the network
and its services grow from a few units to thousands of network elements
•Unified management access for service providers, independent of location, network layer or technology: Single point-of-alarm collection, all network management information available on a single platform and a single logon procedure
