INTEROPERABILITY
As businesses roll out new network equip-
ment, this equipment must be integrated
into their back-office environments and
under their operations support systems
(OSSs), which provide provisioning,
monitoring and management of multiple
vendors’ NEs. Hence, the network manage-
ment architecture must provide standard,
user-friendly, open interfaces to allow
other third-party vendors to pick up sup-
port for the product. This enables them to
provide comprehensive management such
as end-to-end provisioning and monitoring
across multiple NEs. The Alcatel-Lucent
1677 SL is designed with the goal of
deployment in a carrier-class environment
and includes development for open inter-
faces for OSS integration. The Alcatel-
Lucent 1677 SL supports interworking
standards such as open systems inter-
connection (OSI) and target ID address
resolution protocol (TARP), and these
allow integration with other vendors’
systems.
MULTIFUNCTIONALITY
Any new capital expenditure must be
justified by increased revenues and prof-
itability, and the Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL
provides these benefits. For example, its
multi-ring feature allows numerous users
and circuits to be supported on one NE,
thus eliminating the need for multiple NEs
(see Figure 2). This decrease in equipment
use results in an immediate reduction
in CAPEX, followed by ongoing savings
in OPEX.
In addition to the valuable protection
and restoration capabilities of SONET, the
Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL offers businesses
the opportunity to deliver Gigabit Ethernet
services. The Gigabit Ethernet interface
of the Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL makes use
of leading-edge technology to permit the
transport of data services over the existing
SONET infrastructure. This capability
enables new revenue sources in return
for compellingly low deployment costs.
Alcatel-Lucent was one of the first
vendors to support VCAT, the standard
that enables businesses to map Ethernet
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OC-48
UPSR
OC-12
UPSR
OC-192
UPSR
OC-192 BLSR
Figure 2 - Multi-Ring Capability
