Deliver voice, video and data services rapidly with a single,
cost-effective edge and access platform. Use the same
high-density scalable platform to migrate easily to nextgeneration mobility and wireline networks.
Benefits
• Increase revenue potential with a scalable edge access strategy
• Introduce profitable, high-margin services rapidly with reduced risk
• Reduce capital investment and operating costs by lowering inventory, sparing, and training costs
• Simplify operations and network complexity by collapsing multiple technologies into one platform
• Protect your current investment, while migrating to tomorrow’s infrastructure, with a rich selection
of interfaces and advanced protocols
PacketStar®PSAX
Multiservice Media Gateway Portfolio
voice services. And, using the PacketStar®PSAX media
gateways’ unique, high-density multiservice modules,
with up to 24 individual T1s or 3 DS3s per slot, you
can rapidly introduce innovative, high margin services.
With the PacketStar PSAX portfolio, circuit emulation,
frame relay (FR) and ATM traffic can coexist in N x 64
blocks within the same T1/E1 line. You can maximize
circuit utilization by provisioning these protocols
granularly, on a DS0 by DS0 basis, bundled or
unbundled, contiguous or noncontiguous. For
example, if you need to simultaneously deploy three
technologies such as ATM, TDM, and frame relay, only
one module is needed, saving valuable slots and costs.
Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA) is also included
on some multiservice modules to further reduce
required slots while increasing flexibility.
With the Enhanced Router Module, the PacketStar
®
PSAX media gateway family delivers cost-effective
multiservice interworking to IP with QoS in addition
to multiservice layer 2 VPNs. The PacketStar®PSAX
product family now delivers complete services
interworking between Ethernet and IP, plus FR, HDLC,
and ATM. This functionality augments services
capability while minimizing capital expenditures.
Reduce network complexity
and simplify operations
The PacketStar®PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio lets you achieve convergence by collapsing
multiple technologies into a single, scalable platform
that is centrally managed. Parallel networks that
once required separate equipment scenarios can be
consolidated cost-effectively with minimum capital
outlay. Convergence, plus the system’s multiservice
and multimedia versatility, eliminate the need for
multiple switches, reducing network complexity and
simplifying operations. A simpler network structure
also reduces the need for physical channel management
and reduces the burden on core switches.
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Help reduce operating costs
with a single, scalable platform
The PacketStar®PSAX Multiservice Media Gateways
are a portfolio of products that provide broadband
access and convergence in the mission-critical access
to edge space. With this portfolio, you can consolidate
disparate access network elements into a single,
multiservice platform to help generate profits and
reduce operating costs.
PacketStar®PSAX media gateways are scaled to match
a range of access-to-edge environments, from small
hub locations to the central office, so you don’t invest
in more equipment than you need.
All PacketStar
®
PSAX media gateways deliver high
performance and high capacity in a small footprint.
Whether used for intelligent voice and data
aggregation, call control, high-density transport, or
simple multiplexing, they provide you with a single,
scalable, and highly available solution.
With the PacketStar®PSAX media gateways, you can
bring intelligence to the edge of your network and
help cut the cost of building and deploying new
broadband networks while maintaining full
compatibility with existing infrastructures.
Introduce high margin services rapidly
PacketStar®PSAX media gateways provide any-service,
any-channel flexibility that lets you create innovative,
software-selectable, service provisioning options. You
only need one system to support your customers’
service needs, including high-quality, high-capacity
Applications
• Multiservice Aggregation – Ethernet, IP, FR, CES
and ATM, plus Voice, and xDSL
• Access Convergence – Voice, Video, Wireless Data
over MPLS
• Voice Solutions – Cost Effective, scalable,
standards based solution (GR303/v5.2, H.248)
with rich voice processing features
• IP Service Selection & Aggregation – Concentrating
IP to ATM and IP/MPLS core with guaranteed
QoS and scalable bandwidth management
• Mobility Backhaul Solutions – Aggregation,
grooming, and consolidated traffic transport
• CDMA, CDMA 1xEV-DO, CDMA 2000 Migration
• TDMA to GSM/EDGE to 3G/UMTS Migration
PSAX 4500
High density 15-slot unit
PSAX 2300
Highly resilient 15-slot unit
PSAX 1250
10 or 14-slot unit
PSAX 1000
Compact 4 and
5-slot unit
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Minimize capital expenditures
and reduce operating costs
With the PacketStar®PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio’s scalable architecture, you need only one
platform to deploy many services. Each product in the
portfolio meets specific customer needs in various
deployment scenarios, so whether driven by footprint,
line density, speed or cost, you can find the best fit for
your application. Since all chassis share a common,
scalable architecture, you can use the same system and
management software, minimizing administrative and
provisioning knowledge. And, since the modules are
inter-changeable between chassis, you can redeploy a
module in any other PacketStar®PSAX media gateway
model where and when your network needs change,
reducing not only provisioning, but also sparing, training
and inventory costs. PSAX can perform out of service
maintenance tests to qualify a line before assigning
customer traffic, lowering the need for expensive truck
rolls and the time to turn up a new line.
Protect existing investment
and ensure easy migration
The PacketStar®PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio’s wide variety of interfaces and features help
to ensure compatibility with existing equipment, while
providing the service richness of today’s leading edge
protocols. You can use the same high-density
multimission platform to migrate to next generation
networks while maintaining legacy services. Enabled
through the tunnelling of private topology over ATM
networks1, PSAX allows protocols to be carried
transparently, creating greater versatility at the edge
and reducing the need for upgrades to existing
equipment assets. Whether your future plans include
the next generation of wireless or new broadband
multimedia applications you can help to avoid
obsolescence and expensive forklift upgrades. For
increasing customer bandwidth allocations, PSAX can
modify traffic management parameters on active
connections so services are not disrupted. The
PacketStar®PSAX media gateways support more than
40 interface modules that are interchangeable across
the product portfolio. System software is also
consistent across all platforms, eliminating branching
and compatibility problems. To help drive down the
expense of meeting customer demands, you can
upgrade modules simply by downloading new
software and firmware drivers.
Maximize switching capacity,
availability and resiliency
The PacketStar®PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio builds the latest ATM technology into its
system architecture for maximum switching capacity
with high availability and resiliency. Robust, highperformance backplane designs offer several layers of
protection for system resources. PacketStar®PSAX
Multiservice Media Gateways offer 1+ 1 system
protection on optical modules. The PSAX 1000 offers
1:1 protection and the PSAX 4500 offers N:1
protection at the DS3/E3 level. All models offer a
non-service affecting upgrade feature. Further
system resilience is ensured by optional redundancy
for common equipment (power supplies, Stratum 3-4
timing modules, and CPU modules).
Add value, reduce costs with
centrally managed options
The PacketStar®PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio supports a range of centralized network
management options that add essential oversight and
control while reducing the high cost of maintaining
and managing the network. At the element level, you
can manage the PacketStar®PSAX media gateways
using Navis®EMS-PSAX Element Manager, a Javabased Graphical User Interface. Navis®EMS-PSAX
element manager enables comprehensive, real-time,
centralized management, including configuring and
upgrading the system, as well as fault and
performance monitoring.
For carrier-class end-to-end network management, the
PacketStar®PSAX media gateway portfolio can be
integrated into numerous third party network
management solutions as well as with Navis
®
iOperations software including:
• rapid flow–through provisioning across
multitechnology and multivendor environments
with Navis®Provisioning Manager
• performance, fault and service management with
Navis®Fault Manager and Navis®Extend Statistics
Server
• service-level reporting with VitalSuite®Performance
Monitoring Software
• overall server management and maintenance of user
accounts.
1
Public ATM networks or ATM networks that do not run
PNNI over a MPLS core.
PacketStar®PSAX
Multiservice Media Gateway Portfolio
Technical Specifications
Specifications are subject to change without notice. Contact your
Lucent representative for information on availability and upgrades.
Lucent reserves the right to change, modify, transfer or otherwise revise
this publication without notice.
To learn more about our comprehensive portfolio, please
contact your Lucent Technologies Sales Representative,
Lucent BusinessPartner or, visit our web site at
www.lucent.com/data_networking
PacketStar, Navis and VitalSuite are registered trademarks of
Lucent Technologies Inc.
NEBS is a trademark of Telcordia Laboratories
Copyright © 2005
Lucent Technologies Inc.
All rights reserved
MSS v5.0105
** PacketStar®PSAX 4500 Multiservice Media Gateway only
** PacketStar
®
PSAX 4500 and PSAX 1000 Multiservice Media
Gateways only
1.Protocols Supported
ATM/ Frame Relay:
ATM Forum UNI, 3.0/3.1/4.0, IISP, PNNI 1.0, ILMI 4.0,
Traffic Management 4.1, including traffic shaping and traffic
policing, Interface Protection Groups, Dual Home PVCs,
ATM Multicast,Early Packet Discard, configurable connection
admission control, ITU-T I.610 F4/F5 OAM support, ATM frame
relay network interworking (FRF.5) and service interworking (FRF.8),
Guaranteed Frame Rate
IP/MPLS:
Ethernet bridging with spanning tree, RFC 2684, RIP V1/2 static
routing, virtual router, Diffserve sensitive QoS, DHCP relay
Circuit Emulation & Signaling Gatway
Unstructured, Structured (with fractional services), CAS/CCS
signaling, H.248, GR303/V5.2, AAL1, AAL2 (voice compression,
silences suppression, echo cancellation, fax/modem bypass) A-law
and µ-law companding, Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation, SCIP, IVA
for ISDN D-channel transport to softswitch
2.Physical Interface Modules
DS1/E1/DS3/E3 Modules:
a. 6-port enhanced DS1 multiservice
b. 12-port medium density DS1 multiservice plus IMA
c. 12-port DS1/E1/DSOA CES
d. 24-port DS1 multiservice
e. 21-port high-density E1 multiservice
f. 6-port enhanced E1 multiservice
g. 8-port enhanced E1 multiservice plus IMA
h. 1-port Ch. STS-1e CES
i. 1-port DS3 Frame Relay
j. 1-port Ch. DS3 multiservice
k. 3-port Ch. DS3/STS-1e CES
l. 3-port DS3/E3 unstructured CES
m. 3-port Ch. DS3/STS-1e CES protection*
n. 3-port DS3/E3 unstructured CES protection*
o. 3-port DS3/E3 ATM
p. 3-port DS3/E3 ATM protection**
q. 3-port DS3/STS-1e multiservice protection*
Optical Modules:
a. 1-port Ch. OC-3/STM-1 CES APS/MSP (SM/MM)
b. 1-port Ch. OC-3/STM-1 (UnCES/ATM) APS/MSP (SM/MM)
c. 2-port OC-3c/STM-1 APS/MSP (SM/MM)
d. 4-port OC-3c/STM-1 APS/MSP (SM/MM)
e. 1-port OC-12c/STM-4 APS/MSP (SM/MM)
IMA Modules:
a. 6-port DS1 IMA
b. 12-port DS1 IMA
c. 6-port E1 IMA
d. 8-port enhanced E1 multiservice plus IMA
e. 21-port E1 IMA
f. 1-port Ch. STM-1 (UnCES/ATM/IMA) MSP (SM/MM)
g. 1-port DS3 IMA (28 DS1)
Specialty Modules:
a. 2-port Gigabit Ethernet
b. 4-port Ethernet (all 10/100Base-T)
c. 4-port Quadserial
d. 6-port Multiserial
e. 4-port voice 2-Wire Office FXO
f. 8-port voice 2-Wire Station FXS
g. 8-port HDSL-2
h. DSPx Voice Servers
i. Enhanced Router Module
j. LIM 3-1
k. LIM 3-4
l. Route Server
m. Tones and Announcement Server
Other modules and chassis accessories are available, for a
comprehensive listing, please contact your sales representative.
3.System Architecture
Optionally redundant CPU modules
Stratum 3 and 4 modules accept external composite clock timing,
T1 BITS and E1 ETSI timing, or external timing from any I/O port.
Contact your Lucent representative for exceptions.
Dual bus (midplane design on PSAX 4500 and PSAX 1000)
Redundant fans (fault-tolerant design)
SONET and SDH automatic protection switching
1:1 protection
N:1 protection*
4.Regulatory Compliance and Certification
Telecommunications: FCC Part 68 (USA), CS-08 (Canada)
Safety: UL 60950-1 (USA), CSA 22.2 No. 60950-1 (Canada),
EN 60950-1, EN 60825-1, EN 60825-2 (Europe), CB-Scheme IEC 60950-1 (International), NOM (Mexico)
EMC: FCC Part 15 Class A (USA), ICES-003 Class A (Canada), EN
300 386 Class A, EN 55022, EN 55024 1250, 2300, 4500, EN
61000-3-2 1000, 1250, EN 61000-3-3 (Europe) 1000, 1250,
AS/NZS-3548 (Australia), CISPR 22 (International), CISPR 24
(International) 1250, 2300, 4500.
Other: NEBS™ Level 1/3, OSMINE compliant
5.Operations, Administration and Maintenance
F4/F5 AIS, RDI, loopbacks, and continuity checks per ITU-T
I.610
Telcordia GR-1248-CORE
Telcordia TR-NWT-000170
6.Element and Network Management
Navis®Integrated Network Management Products
Navis®EMS-PSAX Element Management System
Navis®network and service management system platforms
Other Management Tools
SNMP via Ethernet port or ATM in-band
Console interface via console port
Console interface via Telnet session
(Ethernet port or ATM in-band)
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