Alcatel-Lucent 1850 T SS-320 Transpor t Service Switc h 5
The Universal Switch The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-320 offers service
providers a powerful tool for running future-safe
transport networks, with total freedom in planning
network resources to support the delivery of new
broadband applications such as triple play, video,
mobile and Ethernet business services. It also ensures
seamless interworking with the existing transport
assets that support existing revenues, while fully
addressing the optical-packet transport convergence,
as demanded by key American service providers.
This universal switch flexibly supports scalable
aggregation and transport at the wavelength level,
the Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS)-based
multidegree ROADM, and also at the subwavelength
level for both synchronous, or SONET, and asynchro-
nous, or packet, traffic. The Alcatel-Lucent 1850
TSS-320 offers the following advantages:
•AnymixofEthernet,TDM,WaveDivision
Multiplexing (WDM), Optical Transport Network
(OTN) and future services with only a simple
change of interface cards, eliminating the need
for future switch investments as new services or
protocols emerge.
•Technology-independent,universalswitch,
capable of switching packets or circuits in their
native format and transporting them as they are,
without costly mapping of circuits into packets
or packets into circuits. The universal switch
provides scalable switching capacity regardless
of the traffic type.