Alcatel-Lucent
1677 SONET Link
NEXT-GENERATION MULTISERVICE PLATFORM
Never before have businesses been under such pressure to provide and support multiple high-bandwidth services while continuing to support traditional revenue-generating services. The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SONET Link provides the means to maximize bandwidth availability and to fill that bandwidth effectively.
Meeting Expanding Demands Working with SONET
Businesses have invested billions of dollars in their SONET network infrastructures, their operations systems, and the personnel to run and maintain them. Customers, both consumers and businesses, are now demanding more services, more versatility and more bandwidth, and these demands are expected to continue to rise over the next few years. Consequently, SONET equipment is still called on to provide transport for new and existing services.
Pressure for revenue growth means that services must be deployed in the here and now, without dramatic changes to the network topology or to operational methods. To fully use and expand the capabilities of SONET, next-generation transport solutions must be able to aggregate disparate native channels at differing bit rates, groom these signals seamlessly, and then efficiently fill the transport “pipes”.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SONET Link (SL) fulfills these requirements by combining the functions of legacy SONET add/drop multiplexers (ADMs), the bandwidth-grooming capability of narrowband, wideband and broadband digital cross-connects, and the optical
fiber-sharing of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM). The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SL offers best-in-class port densities combined with the scalability that is necessary for gradually adding more services. What’s more, this class-leading feature set comes at a realistic price.
YOUR NEEDS
Most operators have sufficient fiber in the ground to support current and near-future needs, provided that the fiber is used effectively. In situations in which more bandwidth is needed, they know that AlcatelLucent has a full range of state-of-the-art active and passive coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) and DWDM devices. What operators want is a network element (NE) that leverages the existing network, offers data and other services via this network, and grooms signals at the network edge. The NE must produce substantial cost savings over incumbent equipment by providing significantly increased switching capacity and port
density, while at the same time controlling Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SONET Link heat output and power usage.
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