Riverstone Networks 7450 manual The Service Provider Challenge

The Service Provider Challenge

These two distinct markets — Ethernet business services and triple play residential services — generate a challenging list of requirements for service providers:

•High scalability in terms of number of subscribers and services

•High reliability — only carrier-class (99.999 percent) reliability will do

•Support for multiple QoS levels and the ability to monitor per-service QoS

•Ability to guarantee services on a per- customer, per-service or per-application basis

For service providers to compete effectively, they must be able to:

•Match their business service offerings to each enterprise’s specific requirements

•Meet the demands of the residential sector with integrated service provisioning and streamlined service, policy and subscriber management

•Turn up new services quickly

•Grow and adapt their service offerings on the fly

To succeed in today’s network landscape, service providers need a carrier-class Ethernet service switch. Traditional, enterprise-focused Ethernet switches were developed to provide best-effort connectivity; they simply don’t have what it takes to survive — and thrive — in the service provider environment. That’s where the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS comes in.

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