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Alcatel-Lucent 7450
Ethernet Service Switch
Enabling Profitable
Carrier Ethernet Services
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The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS) sets a new market standard for enabling the delivery of profitable Ethernet business services in metro, national and international network environments. It also provides high density service-aware Ethernet aggregation for consumer triple-play services over IP/MPLS-based networks. The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS is purpose-built for the service provider market, with an architecture that supports a wide range of interfaces and offers unmatched dens
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The Changing Service Landscape Ethernet Business Services Enterprise customers are conducting an increasing amount of their business elec- tronically, using information and com- munications technology (ICT) to drive sales, improve customer relationships, train staff and simplify procurement. This is being done over metro, national and international boundaries. Enterprises want convenience, simplicity and Figure 1. The Value of MPLS-Enabled Ethernet flexible bandwidth across the wide area network
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Ethernet virtual private networks With a next-generation VPLS imple- (VPNs) complete the service provider mentation, service providers can tailor service mix — ensuring that they can service definitions that directly align confidently mix and match Layer 2 and with the customers’ business objectives Layer 3 VPN services based on what and thereby create value. The Alcatel- their customers want. VPLS expands Lucent 7450 ESS delivers VPLS today the next-generation VPN service market with the ability
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Triple Play Residential Services A burgeoning new market exists for Ethernet in the aggregation of “As a leading provider of ‘always- consumer triple -play services (see Figure 3). The aggregation network on’ services such as triple play for needs to be optimized to meet the demands of voice, video and high- consumers, SBC is expected to speed Internet services, and above all it must be extremely scalable to deliver the highest levels of reliabil- support the kinds of subscriber numbers inherent
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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 basi
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Addressing Growing Markets with an Ethernet Service Switch In contrast to traditional Ethernet switches, the Alcatel-Lucent Sized to Suit 7450 ESS was specifically designed for the delivery of business and Any Need triple -play services, with MPLS as an integral component of its service-oriented architecture. This next-generation design enables The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS service providers to roll out more services, more quickly — services comes in two chassis sizes, the that are backed by carrie
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Highly Reliable Carrier Ethernet Services The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS is the industry’s first gateway protocol (IGP) routing processes such that Ethernet service switch with carrier high availability. all topology information and adjacencies are main- More than ever, high availability is at the forefront of tained even in the event of a failure of one SF/CPM. the service provider’s criteria for consumer and business The 7450 ESS supports non-stop routing for open Ethernet services. The demand for
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Carrier-Class Features Provide Carrier-Class Benefits The 7450 ESS represents a generational leap in carrier high availability enabling service providers to improve their network reliability with non-stop Ethernet services and ensure customer SLAs are preserved (see Figure 5). With its advanced feature set, the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS provides a unique set of benefits for service providers, as described in Table 1. Table 1. 7450 ESS Features Address Service Providers’ Requirements Requirement Fea
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Services You Can Bank On A Compelling Business Case As we’ve seen, the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS provides the kind of technological advances required to operate The numbers are in and the business in a service provider environment. Table 2 describes how case is clear: deploying Ethernet business the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS enables Ethernet services services using the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 that address the service provider’s inter-region and ESS is a wise investment. Alcatel- nationwide requirements.
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by the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager. 7450 ESS in the These tools allow the service provider to isolate faults Alcatel-Lucent Solution and provision services quickly, with an end-to-end perspective, rather than time-consuming connection- Alcatel-Lucent offers a comprehensive portfolio of by-connection, element-by-element fault tracing and carrier-class products that enable any service over any provisioning, which are prone to error. access with any backbone infrastructure. The Alcate
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