Riverstone Networks SSG manual Why Alcatel?, Capacity

WHY ALCATEL?

Alcatel is the STP vendor of choice for major networks. The Alcatel 5070 SSG ANSI is a natural progression to next generation signaling services, offering customers all of the SS7 features currently available on existing STPs. This allows customers with existing STP networks to augment or migrate seamlessly to the Alcatel 5070 SSG ANSI with SS7/IP signaling gateway functionality while providing transparent, legacy STP services.

The Alcatel 5070 SSG ANSI can be deployed in many network scenarios.

Capacity

Many customers with networks of legacy STPs have reached link connectivity and capacity limits. The Alcatel INfusion STP A, which the

Alcatel 5070 SSG ANSI replaces, supports a maximum of 720 DS0 links and 14 million database entries.

The Alcatel 5070 SSG ANSI is the only product on the market that supports a link count with growth to the multi-thousand range with the throughput capacity to support these link quantities without performance degradation. For those with existing Alcatel INfusion STP products, the evolution scenario allows retention of investment in existing plant while expanding into the next generation realm. And with support for 50 million database entries and transaction rates starting at 2,500 transactions per second, the Alcatel 5070 SSG ANSI provides significantly higher database capacity than the previous generation Alcatel INfusion STP A.

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