Alcatel-lucent 7210 SAS DATASHEET

Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS

S E R V I C E A CCE S S S W I TC H | R E L E A S E 2 . 0

Designed for smaller central offices, distributed hub sites, and the customer edge, the Alcatel-Lucent 7210 Service
Access Switch (SAS) portfolio of compact Ethernet-edge and aggregation devices provides cost-effective, MPLS­enabled Carrier Ethernet services delivery. With platform capabilities that include redundant 10GigE uplinks,
hierarchical quality of service (H-QoS), advanced operation, administration and maintenance (OAM), ITU-T
Synchronous Ethernet (Sync-E) and support for extended temperature range environments, the 7210 SAS is
an integral component that adds value and builds differentiated services over Carrier Ethernet networks.

The Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS family of
compact, Ethernet-edge and aggrega­tion devices enables the delivery of
advanced Carrier Ethernet VPN services
into the customer edge and extends
the reach of MPLS-enabled Carrier
Ethernet aggregation networks into
smaller locations. As a member of the
industry-leading Service Router (SR)
product portfolio, the 7210 SAS
leverages the powerful Service
Router Operating System (SR OS) and
5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM)
to provide seamless integration with
MPLS-enabled Carrier Ethernet
aggregation and IP/MPLS solutions
from Alcatel-Lucent, and it ensures
end-to-end service richness with
enhanced SLAs and simplified
management.

With its compact MPLS-enabled form
factor, the Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS
provides 10GigE uplinks, highly available
service delivery, support for advanced
timing and synchronization techniques,
and a temperature-hardened option to
extend next-generation Carrier Ethernet
aggregation infrastructures into smaller

central offices and hub sites while
cost-optimizing build-outs. As an
MEF 9 and 14 certified platform,
the Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS solves
enterprise networking complexity
with innovative Carrier Ethernet
business VPN services that support a
full suite of demanding applications
with stringent service level agreements
(SLAs) extended into the customer edge.

Available in five compact platform
options, the Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS
enables incumbent service providers,
incumbent local exchange carriers
(ILECs), multiservice operators (MSOs),
mobile operators, city carriers,
Internet service providers and appli­cation service providers, as well as
industry and enterprise customers to
build-out cost-optimized infrastructures
for metro and wide area network (WAN)
business, residential and mobile
service delivery.

Features

Compact MPLS-enabled
platform for highly available
service delivery

With its small footprint, 10GigE uplinks
and leading MPLS capabilities, the
Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS is ideally suited
to extend the Carrier Ethernet aggre­gation infrastructure into smaller
network locations and extend the
service intelligence into the customer
premise. The 7210 SAS supports two
10GigE Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP)
optical ports and twenty-four GigE Small
Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) optical
ports. MPLS-enabled variants support
MPLS and Ethernet across all ports,
and features include resource reser­vation protocol – traffic engineering
(RSVP-TE), label distribution protocol
(LDP) and targeted LDP (T-LDP), along
with resiliency mechanisms including
fast reroute (FRR), primary and second­ary label switched paths (LSPs),
pseudowire redundancy and MPLS-TE
graceful shutdown for highly available
service delivery.

Delivering advanced Carrier
Ethernet VPN services

By extending SLAs into the customer
edge, the 7210 SAS enables innovative
and differentiated retail and whole­sale Carrier Ethernet VPN services such
as virtual private LAN service (VPLS),
hierarchical (H-VPLS) and virtual leased
line (VLL) services along with Ethernet
access to enhanced Internet services
(IES) and IP VPN services. Industry and
enterprise customers that operate
their own networks can also innovate
and enhance the services they provide
to their internal customers. Innovative
SLAs require end-to-end service
delivery and simplified management
with differentiation based on reliabil­ity, quality of service (QoS) and OAM
tools. To meet the requirements to
support mission-critical applications,
the Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS supports
MPLS resiliency mechanisms and an
extensive OAM toolkit. When com­bined with the per-service attributes of

the Alcatel-Lucent SR OS, end-to-end
business VPN services can be enabled
to solve enterprise networkingcom­plexities with guaranteed QoS per
application over redundant uplinks
across an IP/MPLS network.

Advanced H-QoS

With traffic streams of today’s Ethernet
services consisting of video applications,
voice, best-effort Internet access, and
mission-critical business services, QoS
becomes a critical element for deliver­ing both best-effort and SLA-based
services. Using service and network
level queuing, granular shaping,
policing, and marking of service traffic
and per-service guarantee capabilities,
the Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS supports
H-QoS to provide more enhanced
business VPN services. These services
enable multiservice SLAs to ensure
performance parameters for individual
enterprise applications (for example,
bandwidth, delay, jitter) are met while
providing bandwidth efficiency by
allowing lower priority applications to
burst when higher priority applications
go idle.

Carrier Ethernet service
aggregation

For consolidated business, residential
and Ethernet-centric mobile service
aggregation applications, including
more service-intensive environments
with burst requirements in smaller
network locations, the 7210 SAS
provides five compact platform options
to cost-optimize infrastructure build­outs based on networking require­ments such as service queues, packet
buffers, counters, LSPs, MAC addresses
and ACLs.

Extensive OAM tools with
performance measurement

To support differentiated services that
are managed into the customer edge,
the Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS provides
a suite of per-service Ethernet and
MPLS OAM service assurance capabili­ties. These tools include ITU-T Y.1731,
IEEE 802.1ag, IEEE 802.3ah, VPLS

OAM and local service mirroring.
The 7210 SAS hardware-based imple­mentation of ITU-T Y.1731 enables
accurate measurements of perfor­mance parameters (for example, jitter,
latency and packet loss). As well, its
robust implementation of ITU-T Y.1731
ensures performance measurement
does not impact system performance.
Finally, the 7210 SAS in concert with
the 5620 SAM supports the Alcatel­Lucent service assurance agent (SAA).

Comprehensive management
to the customer edge

The Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM simplifies
the end-to-end management of Carrier
Ethernet services, giving the operator
a comprehensive, easy-to-use fault
management system, integrated SR OS
OAM toolkit for SLA compliance,
threshold crossing alerts, per-service
provisioning with GUI-based tem­plates, and customized service portal
capabilities. Full integration of
MPLS-enabled 7210 SAS variants with
the Alcatel-Lucent 5650 Control Plane
Assurance Manager (CPAM) provides
IP/MPLS control plane visualization,
surveillance and path computation.
The Operations Support System (OSS)
Connected Partner program offers
certified integration with industry­leading OSS applications, including
service assurance, provisioning and
traffic engineering.

Deployment flexibility

The flexibility of the 7210 SAS platform
provides cost-optimized build-outs with
five variant options designed to meet
specific networking requirements over
ring or mesh topologies. The Ethernet
and MPLS-enabled variants have the
versatility for use as customer premise
equipment in single tenant and multi­tenant offices as well as campus environ­ments or in smaller network locations.
To meet ever-increasing bandwidth
requirements, 10GigE ports are sup­ported. The MPLS-enabled variants
support ITU-T Sync-E for the distribu­tion of accurate network timing and
synchronization over Carrier Ethernet

Alcatel- Lucent 7210 SAS | Releas e 2.0 | Data Sheet2