DCN support with the
TransLAN
®
unit
The TransLAN
®
option board can also be used for DCN engineering purposes. An
important application in this respect is to use the Ethernet interfaces to make a long
distance Q-LAN connection. This solution can replace the current solution that uses
external modems or routers. It is often cheaper and easier to manage if the long
distance Q-LAN connection can be made over the SDH infrastructure (at the cost of
the bandwidth of a few VC-12s). The DCN application of the TransLAN
®
option board
assumes the NMS is collocated with at least one of the NEs equipped with a
TransLAN
®
card (e.g., Metropolis
®
AMU, Metropolis
®
ADM (Universal shelf) or
Metropolis
®
ADM (Compact shelf). In such a case, one can connect the Ethernet port
of the Lucent NMS to one of the designated 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX LAN ports and
configure the associated WAN port with desired bandwidth (e.g., VC-12) to carry the
management traffic.
Planning Network Applications
Multi-service application with the
TransLAN
®
option board
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