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TECHNICAL INFORMATION GUIDE
MainStreet Business Access Portfolio
Architecture
The information provided in this section is intended to
provide a functional overview of each product. At the end of
this section, you will find a table summarizing the applications
supported and interfaces available for each product in the
Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio.
Multiservice Access Platforms (MAPs)
Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice
Bandwidth Manager
The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is
a flexible, scalable and intelligent
networking node that combines the
functions of an integrated voice and
data multiplexer, a frame relay and
X.25 switch, a low capacity ATM
access node, an intelligent channel
bank, and a digital cross-connect switch. The Alcatel 3600
MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager accommodates
network evolution and protects investment by enabling
customers to integrate narrowband legacy services and
broadband or IP-based networks.
The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
is ideal for access networks that support multiple TDM and
packet/cell services, including:
> Packet/cell: ATM, frame relay, voice over frame relay
(VoFR), X.25
> TDM: leased lines, voice, data, and voice compression
Offering a wide range of advanced business services, the
Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
is the most successful digital overlay platform ever built,
with over 180,000 nodes installed worldwide, and growing.
The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
can be used:
> To concentrate circuit-switched, packet- and cell-based
voice and data traffic
> To offer leased line services – from subrate to 2 Mb/s
(n*64 kb/s)
> As an international gateway, providing E1/T1, E3/T3 and
ISDN interfaces with signaling and superate conversion,
line and circuit grooming and voice compression
> As a low- to medium-capacity 3/0 and 1/0 digital access
and cross-connect system (DACS)
> As an intelligent channel bank
Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice
Bandwidth Manager
The Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice
Bandwidth Manager builds on the highly
successful architecture of the Alcatel 3600
MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager. It provides a scalable option to
meet the increasing demand for multiple
services and higher bandwidth on a single
platform. In addition to offering all of the
capabilities of the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager, the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager offers fiber optic and
electrical interfaces at STM-1/OC-3 speeds. It supports a wide
range of circuit- and packet-based voice and data services,
and is fully compatible with the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager, providing seamless integration into existing networks and protecting equipment investment.
The Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager is ideal for access networks that support multiple
services, including packet and TDM with the requirement
for connection to higher speed fiber optic backbones and
metropolitan area networks/wide area networks (MANs/WANs).
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The Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager supports a diverse set of access technologies
including:
> Packet/cell: ATM, frame relay, voice over frame relay
(VoFR), X.25
> TDM: leased lines, voice, data, and voice compression
> Synchronous optical network /synchronous digital
hierarchy (SONET/SDH): linear interface (STM-1/OC-3),
1+1 interface (STM-1/OC-3), unidirectional path switched
ring (UPSR) ring mode (STM-1/OC-3)
Alcatel 3600/Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager Enhancements
MainStreet Frame Relay
The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
and the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager platforms offer extensive frame relay services. With
the simple and cost-effective addition of a frame relay engine
(FRE), packet engine (PE) or frame relay switch with Subrate
Interface Module (FRS/SRIM) card, an Alcatel 3600/Alcatel
3600+ MainStreet node provides comprehensive frame relay
switching capabilities.
MainStreet Frame Relay is a proven service used extensively
in public and enterprise networks throughout the world. It
can be used effectively in large or small networks that deploy
frame relay alone, or in combination with leased line, X.25
and ATM services. Based on a modular architecture, up to
64 FRE and/or PE cards can be connected across the 100 Mb/s
FASTbus to create a high capacity node that is capable of
switching 120,000 fps.
MainStreet Frame Relay services include X.25/frame
relay/ATM network and service interworking capabilities,
subrate frame relay switching, and value-added service
capabilities, such as VoFR with QoS, packet fragmentation
and reassembly, and DLCI multiplexing.
An Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
or Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
system that includes frame relay seamlessly interworks with
the Alcatel 7470 MSP and the Alcatel 7670 RSP to provide
an end-to-end frame relay solution — from the customer
premises to the network core. These platforms are fully
managed by the Alcatel 5620 NM allowing service providers
to manage the multiservice environment from a single
platform and console. New facilities can be added in seconds,
rather than weeks, as more subscribers request service.
MainStreet ATM Service
The MainStreet ATM Service cards provide ATM service
adaptation and inverse multiplexing over ATM (IMA) for the
Alcatel 3600/Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Managers. Installed in any universal card slot (UCS), the ATM
Service cards adapt the rich variety of Alcatel 3600/Alcatel
3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Managers supported
services to ATM cells for transmission over an ATM network.
The ATM Service cards support AAL1 and AAL5 adaptation.
The circuit emulation service (CES) adapts constant bit rate
(CBR) traffic (n*64 kb/s) to AAL1 virtual circuits (VCs). The
HDLC service adapts HDLC-formatted traffic into AAL5 VCs.
The card has four E1 or T1 interfaces (physical ports). Each
port provides a user network interface (UNI) to an ATM network and can function as an independent network link, or can
be assigned to a logical IMA port for combined transmission.
Extending broadband ATM benefits to the Alcatel 3600/Alcatel
3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Managers, the ATM
Services Card allows corporate networks to exploit rate
differentials that favor ATM. The card's IMA capability is also
a tremendous benefit where WAN connectivity requirements
exceed E1/T1 capacity. The ATM Service card is optimized to
support a single ATM aggregate comprised of one to four
inverse multiplexed E1/T1 links.
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