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ARCHIVED REPORT:
Alcatel-Lucent
Router and Switch Portfolio
Copyright 2017, Faulkner Information Services. All Rights Reserved.
Docid: 00014563
Publication Date: 1706
Report Type: PRODUCT
Preview
Alcatel-Lucent’s portfolio of routers and switches includes multi-service equipment for
IP core routing, IP edge routing, IP/optical integration, and mobile backhaul. Each
product is developed for carrier-grade access circuit emulation, frame relay, IP, and ATM
services. In January 2016, Nokia completed its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent. This
report describes the portfolio.
Report Contents:
Description
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The Alcatel-Lucent switch and routing portfolio includes
multi-service equipment for cloud-optimized metro solutions, IP core
routing, IP edge routing, IP/optical integration, and mobile backhaul.
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Alcatel-Lucent Company Brief |
A switch is a computer networking device that connects network segments. It
refers to a network bridge, which processes and routes data at the data link
layer of the OSI model (Layer 2) or multi-layer (Layer 3 and 4). Switches
can operate at one or more OSI layers including physical, data link, network,
or transport.
Vendor |
| Company Name: Alcatel-Lucent
Headquarters: 54 Rue La Boetie Paris 75008, France Phone: (011) +33-1-40-76-10-10 Fax: (011) +33-1-40-76-14-00 Web: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/ Type of Vendor: Telecommunications equipment and services provider Founded: 1898 (Alcatel merged with Lucent in 2006) Service Areas: Worldwide |
Combined with the high-availability (99.9999 percent, in most instances) of
its products, the facility of switches in routing
information across disparate networking environments can be an invaluable asset to
enterprise carriers, especially as demands for QoS and enhanced voice and data
services are placed on larger network infrastructures.
Alcatel-Lucent’s switch and routing portfolio offers coverage for:
- Cloud-Optimized Metro Solutions
- IP Core Routing
- IP Edge Routing
- IP/Optical Integration
- Mobile Backhaul
Select switches are detailed in Table 1.
| Switch Model |
Family |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) | Network and Service Management | Provides network and service management across the converged, all-IP network. It is designed to provide unified operations in virtualized environment or specialized hardware platforms. It is intended to provide efficient provisioning, troubleshooting, and proactive assurance. |
| 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager (CPAM) |
Network and Service Management |
CPAM provides real-time visualization, surveillance, and troubleshooting for IP/MPLS networks and services. It is tightly integrated with the 5620 SAM, helping to minimize multivendor control plane misconfigurations, malfunctions, and undetected routing updates. |
|
7210 Service Access Switch | Carrier Ethernet
|
Small-footprint,
Carrier Ethernet customer-edge devices designed as a service provider, owned and managed by customer located equipment device. It is available in MPLS and Ethernet variants. |
| 7450
Ethernet Service Switch | Mobile Backhaul / Interconnection
Carrier Ethernet Carrier Ethernet |
Supports
scalable, reliable, and predictable SLA-based services for consumer triple play, business Carrier Ethernet VPN and mobile backhaul applications. |
| 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR) | Multiservice Routing |
Provides multiservice adaptation, aggregation, and routing for Ethernet and IP/MPLS networks. It is intended to facilitate legacy to packet transformation, and is optimized for fixed and mobile operators. |
| 7750 Service Router | IP Edge Routing | A multiservice edge router designed for the concurrent delivery of advanced residential, business and mobile services on a common IP edge platform. It is built on Alcatel-Lucent 400 Gb/s FP3 silicon technology. |
| 7950 Extensible Routing System (XRS) | IP Core Routing | Provides scalable core routing platforms, providing up to 80 100GE and/or 800 10GE ports in a single 19-inch rack. It is designed to double this capacity in a dual-chassis, back-to-back system configuration. It can scale to 40 Tb/s in a single chassis with future expansion to 240 Tb/s system forwarding capacity in a multichassis configuration. |
| Network Services Platform | Network and Service Management | Unifies service automation with network optimization. It is designed to bridge IT/OSS and networking. |
| Virtualized Service Router (VSR) | IP Edge Routing | A flexible virtualized IP edge router architected and optimized for x86 server environments. It is designed to enable rapid service innovation, extend service reach, open new markets, and accelerate time to market. It offers a homogenized physical infrastructure, and is based on the Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing Operating System (SR OS). |
Applications
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Table 2 looks at potential uses for Alcatel-Lucent’s switches.
|
Family |
Switch Type |
Target Area |
|---|---|---|
|
Access |
Wireless |
2G-4G mobility backhaul and multi-service business applications. |
|
Carrier, VoIP, Voice and Multimedia |
Public TDM Switching |
Indoor or outdoor, small-capacity, traditional PSTN voice networks. |
|
Mobile Core |
Any-to-any switching environments. |
|
|
Softswitches |
Distributed switching architectures. |
|
|
Mobile |
Mobile Backhaul / Interconnection |
Consumer triple-play, business Carrier Ethernet VPN and mobile backhaul applications. |
|
Mobile Core |
Any-to-any switching environments. |
|
|
CDMA / CDMA2000 |
Operator environments for migrating to evolving standards. |
|
|
Carrier Ethernet |
Service Access and Ethernet Services Switch |
Service provider environments with customer-located equipment. This includes consumer triple-play and business Carrier Ethernet VPN services. |
|
Mobile Core |
Media and Wireless Media Gateway |
Any-to-any switching environments that support TDM packet switching and native TDM. This includes native TDM-to-TDM, native packet-to-packet, and TDM-to-packet. |
|
Optics |
Optical Core Switching |
Scalable optical systems for metro core and backbone applications. |
Environment
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Alcatel-Lucent’s lineup of multiservice switches
and switch platforms include multi-service management, policy
administration, and Operation Support System integration over multiple
equipment layers.
Table 3 looks at support considerations.
|
Family |
Switch Type |
Support Options |
|---|---|---|
|
Mobile |
Mobile Backhaul / Interconnection |
Alcatel’s Wireless Call Server. |
|
Mobile Core |
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|
CDMA / CDMA2000 |
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|
Carrier Ethernet |
Service Access and Ethernet Services Switch |
Service Router Operating System and 5620 Service Aware Manager. |
|
Mobile Core |
Media and Wireless Media Gateway |
Alcatel’s Wireless Call Server. |
|
Optics |
Optical Core Switching |
Add/drop multiplexer, broad- and wideband SDH/SONET, and L2 switching functionalities from ring to meshed topologies, based on ASON/GMPLS dynamic control plane. |
Support
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Alcatel-Lucent offers support services, including a Web site
with common problems and troubleshooting tips, as well as customer service lines
for live support. The company also promotes “Alcatel
University” online programs. Alcatel University classroom training is available worldwide.
Pricing
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Alcatel-Lucent does not publish the prices for its switches and
switch-related products. Interested, potential customers can contact Alcatel resellers for
specific information, or contact its sales staff by filling out a sales support form.
Competitors
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Alcatel-Lucent’s
switch competitors include
Cisco’s extensive switch portfolio, Extreme’s stackable, access, and chassis-based switches, HP’s Networking Switches portfolio, Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet and Packet Optical
switches, Avaya’s Ethernet switches, Dell’s PowerConnect switches and Force10
portfolio, Brocade’s Ethernet, FC, and Converged switches, and Juniper’s EX and
QFX series switches.
Web Links
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- Alcatel-Lucent:
- Avaya: http://www.avaya.com/
- Brocade: http://www.brocade.com/
- Ciena: http://www.ciena.com/
- Cisco Systems: http://www.cisco.com/
- Dell: http://www.dell.com/
- Extreme Networks: http://www.extremenetworks.com/
- Hewlett-Packard: http://www.hp.com/
- Juniper Networks: http://www.juniper.net/
About
the Author
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Sherry Kercher is an editor for Faulkner Information
Services. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science, and tracks and writes about storage, communication networks and
equipment, and Internet technologies.
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