Alcatel-Lucent SONET-SDH MDAs User Manual

The Alcatel-Lucent Service Router MDAs provide industry-leading service density and rich connectivity
options in a wide range of service and application solutions for service providers, cable MSOs and
enterprise customers.

Alcatel-Lucent Service Router SONET/SDH MDAs

MEDIA DEPENDENT ADAPTERS

With industry-leading interface density
and variety, the Alcatel-Lucent Service
Router (SR) product family comprises
purpose-built IP/ MPLS platforms designed
to deliver a new wave of next-generation
services. The platforms feature a fully
modular design to ensure maximum
service reliability and reduce CAPEX.
Each platform is equipped with redun ­dancy on common, hot-pluggable
components to eliminate any single
point of failure. The modular design
means that the media dependent
adapters (MDAs) and optics are por ­table across the SR family, allowing for
maximized invest ment protection and
simplified sparing.

Alcatel-Lucent SR Family

The Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR is a superior
IP multiservice edge router that is
purpose-built for service providers,
cable multiservice operators (MSOs)
and enterprise customers to deliver
a new wave of triple play, premium

business virtual private network (VPN)
and multimedia mobile services, and
who are looking to converge these
services in a single IP/MPLS network.
The Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR is available
in three chassis sizes — 1-slot, 7-slot
and 12-slot — all of which offer a wide
range of interfaces with unmatched
density and service performance. The
Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR family gives
service providers, cable MSOs and
enterprise customers the flexibility to
achieve the service continuity, service
richness and service assurance that are
critical to ensuring customer satisfac ­tion and market leadership.

The Alcatel-Lucent 7710 SR is a feature­rich multiservice edge router, available
in compact form factors and purpose­built for modu larity. The router has
different chassis compared to the

2 Alcatel-Lucent Service Router SONET/SDH MDAs

Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR and facilitates
the reuse of selected MDAs to mini ­mize CAPEX. Designed for smaller points
of presence (PoPs), hub sites and enter ­prise offices, the Alcatel-Lucent 7710 SR
family gives service providers, cable
MSOs and enter prise customers a com ­petitive edge by allowing them to
right-size their infrastructure buildouts
with a fully featured router in a smaller
footprint. The Alcatel-Lucent 7710 SR
family is also an ideal solution for enter ­prise customers in key vertical markets,
such as government, utilities and trans ­portation, that need to pro vide more
secure, reli able and manage able data
services for their end users. Available in
two modular chassis sizes that support
up to 4 or 12 interface cards, the Alcatel­Lucent 7710 SR offers a wide range of
interface options using compact media
adapters (CMAs) and selected MDAs
with unmatched service performance.

All products in the Alcatel-Lucent SR
family are based on the carrier-grade,
production-hardened Alcatel-Lucent
Service Router Operating System
(SR OS), which is designed to deliver
residential, business and mobile services
with optimal cost-effectiveness.

Alcatel-Lucent SR SONET/
SDH MDAs

The SONET/SDH MDAs provide the
critical high-speed, high-density service
interfaces required for a new wave
of next-generation IP-based services.
Table 1 lists the SONET/SDH MDAs that
are supported by the Alcatel-Lucent
SR family.

The three available chassis of the Alcatel­Lucent 7750 SR — SR-12, SR-7 and SR-1
— support ten, five and one I/O module
(IOM) respectively. The I/O slot capacity
for all chassis is 20 Gb/s (full duplex),
with scaling to 40 Gb/s (full duplex) for
the Alcatel-Lucent SR-12 and SR-7. Each
IOM accepts two MDAs.

The Alcatel-Lucent 7710 SR supports
the 8-port OC-3c/STM-1c MDA and the
2-port OC-48c/ STM-16c MDA, as listed
in Table 1. Each MDA requires an MDA
carrier module (MCM), which is a small
hot-pluggable module that fits across
two standard Alcatel-Lucent 7710 SR
I/O positions. Each MCM accepts one
MDA as a daughter module. The Alcatel­Lucent 7710 SR-c4 supports up to two
MDAs while the 7710 SR-c12 supports
up to six MDAs, with a throughput rate
of up to 4.4 Gb/s per MDA (full duplex)
to each control and forwarding
module (CFM).

SONET/SDH MDAs provide:

• Interface speeds from OC-3/ STM-1c
to OC-192/STM-64c

• High interface density — up to 320
OC-3c/STM-1c or OC-12c/ STM-4c
ports per Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR-12
chassis

• Multiple-rate OC-3c/OC-12, STM-1c/
STM-4c, and software selectable on
a per-port basis

• Multimode and single-mode media
types

• SFP optics for added flexibility and
optimal slot utilization

• Optical link budget, supporting
dis tances up to 85 kilometers
(52.8 miles)

• In-service removal and insertion

FEATURES

The SONET/SDH MDAs support the full
scope of the Alcatel-Lucent SR OS
feature set, including:

• Flexible, high-performance services:

¬ virtual private LAN service (VPLS)

¬ BGP/MPLS VPN (based on RFC

4364) and IP-VPN services

¬ dedicated Internet access services

¬ Ethernet, frame relay and ATM

virtual private wire (VPWS) services

• High-performance IP and MPLS
tunneling

• Rich MPLS multiservice transit
capabilities

• Flexible Fast Path technology,
providing up to 10 Gb/s packet
processing with service headroom

• Tens of thousands of configurable
ingress/egress access control lists
(ACLs)

• Scalable BGP, OSPF and IS-IS routing
with traffic-engineering extensions

• Per-service hierarchical quality of
service (H-QoS), with up to 8,000
ingress and egress queues per MDA
and 200-ms buffering up to 10 Gb/s

• Granular, per-service accounting
and billing

• Extensive operations, administration
and maintenance (OAM) tools for
service-aware troubleshooting and
faster service activation

Table 1. SONET/SDH MDA Support for the SR Family

SONET/SDH MDA TYPE ALCATEL-LUCENT 7750 SR ALCATEL-LUCENT 7710 SR

8-port OC-3c/STM-1c 
16-port OC-3c/STM-1c  –
8-port OC-3c/OC-12c/STM-1c/STM-4c  –
16-port OC-3c/OC-12c/STM-1c/STM-4c  –
2-port OC-48c/STM-16c 
4-port OC-48c/STM-16c  –
1-port OC-192c/STM-64c  –