Alcatel-Lucent Managed Business Networking Solution
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Extending service reach with Managed Business Access
With the Alcatel-Lucent MBN
solution, you can offer optional
Ethernet-based managed business
access services to help you increase
service footprint and generate recur-
ring incremental revenue. Ethernet
is ideally suited for managed business
access because it provides a universal
handoff with clear service demarca-
tion and greater service flexibility.
Its easily scalable bandwidth can
deliver multiple services over a single
interface, while leveraging the most
appropriate access technology avail-
able for the last mile.
With Ethernet-based managed business access, you can offer enterprise customers
new bandwidth-intensive applications that were previously too costly to deploy
using traditional access services. Enterprise servers and server virtualization
can also be consolidated, presenting further opportunities for managed and
hosted applications.
The Alcatel-Lucent managed business access solution offers a comprehensive
portfolio of customer premises equipment (CPE). So you can extend managed
business VPN services end-to-end, using Ethernet over a variety of last mile
access technologies including: copper pairs, xDSL, SONET/SDH, TDM and
PDH, as well as fiber and MPLS. As a result, services can reach multiple enter-
prise sites, from small branch sites to large corporate sites, in any location — by
leveraging existing infrastructure. For example, Ethernet virtual leased lines
(VLLs) that use Ethernet in the first mile (EFM) and run over copper pairs
can be used to access high-speed Internet services, as well as managed business
VPN services.
The CPE portfolio supports OAM connectivity and performance capabili-
ties provided by 802.3ah EFM and 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management
(CFM), helping to ensure end-to-end service management and assurance
through the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM. This configuration and management
support is provided directly — or through the Generic Network Element
(GNE) manager, which allows cross launching of the device-specific Element
Management System (EMS).
Where Ethernet business access cannot be provided, the MBN solution supports
access to business VPN services over legacy access services such as T1/E1 leased
lines, frame relay and ATM, or over secure broadband and Internet connections
using IPSec. In addition, Ethernet/Frame Relay/ATM pseudowire interworking
enables interworking with legacy services, supporting an orderly migration to
converged business VPN services.
“Based on Alcatel-Lucent’s
1521 CLIP Ethernet First
Mile solution, Unidata offers
symmetrical 5 Mb/s or 10 Mb/s
Ethernet services over bonded
copper pairs to our SME and
corporate accounts. It enables
us to offer our Business Services
(VoIP, broadband Internet,
MPLS VPNs) to those accounts
which cannot be reached with
optical fiber.”
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