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1 ALCATEL 1603 SMXSONET Multi-Application Network Element ALCATEL builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 110,000 employees Alcateloperates in more than 130 countries. For information, see explosion of streaming audio,video, file-sharing, wireless applicationsand plain old telephone traffic, has ledto a shift in the necessary bandwidthrequirements of metropolitan rings. Inthe past, a T1 line was often all thebandwidth a medium-sized businesscould use, and OC-3 rings for transportwere all the rage. A homeowner didn tdream of a T1 or even a modemcapable of 56k throughput. Times havechanged. Greater demand forbandwidth in residences, campuses andbusiness parks has made it necessary toincrease capacity at the edge of thenetwork. This in turn is driving serviceproviders to add capacity in their rings,increase the size of their transportconnections to the edge, and preservemany of the service interfaces theircustomers currently capacity to a networktraditionally requires large amounts ofprecious floor space, complicatedmaintenance, provisioning, and majorcapital investment.

2 Aisles of racks filledwith legacy equipment inefficientlydeliver bandwidth at a higher cost andwith less flexibility. Multiple pieces ofequipment require additional personnelto manage, additional environmentalcontrol, and additional facilities tooperate. Costs such as these decreaseoperating efficiency and position aservice provider as less competitive. Lean and mean are the watchwords oftoday s service providers. They requiremore return on all of their investmentand seek a greater return on equipmentin less time than in previous want their metro opticalequipment to be capable of high-speedoptical rates, with a variety of serviceinterfaces for greater flexibility. Theyalso want the proven reliability andstandardization of carrier classequipment at the price and footprint ofenterprise equipment. Alcatelunderstands these needs of the serviceprovider and has developed a SONET solution, the ALCATEL 1603 1603 SMX Flexible Architecture2 Service Provider Flexibility Flexibility in deployment Flexibility in service interfaces Flexibility in expanding andupgrading metro optical networks The ALCATEL 1603 SMX can be deployedin controlled environments such as acentral office, or it can be deployed inremote locations such as curbsidepedestals or cabinets.

3 Deploymentflexibility is important, but flexibility inservice interfaces is crucial to revenuegeneration. Providing customers anexpanded range of choices can give aservice provider a needed advantage inthe marketplace. That advantage can bereinforced through thoughtful andcontrolled expansion of the ALCATEL 1603 SMX has beendesigned to minimize the hassle andstranded bandwidth associated withsome metro network elements. Plug-inssuch as the combination DS-3/STS-1 setthe standard for software configurablemodules. By combining the two on onecard, the service provider can offereither service from the same cardsimply through provisioning. Upgradingsoftware using such features as RemoteDownload and FTP Download, translateto lower operational costs, fewer sitevisits, and increased Transport andFlexibilityThe ALCATEL 1603 SMX brings high-speedoptical transport capability to the metromarket. Ring rates of up to OC-48 areavailable for high-speed transportwithin the metro market.

4 It also hashigh-speed optics available in OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48. Precision 200 GHzspaced optical modules capable ofdirect interface with Dense WaveDivision Multiplexing (DWDM) modulesare available in the OC-48 configuration. The ALCATEL 1603 SMX can operate inTerminal, Linear Add/Drop Multiplexing(ADM), Unidirectional Path SwitchedRing (UPSR) or 2-fiber Bi-directionalLine-Switched Ring (BLSR) modes. The ALCATEL 1603 SMX can also serve asa hub for optical traffic, handing thehigh-speed traffic to a backbonenetwork element for ALCATEL 1603 SMX can also "taper"routes, giving a customer the ability toupgrade a segment of a ring to a higheroptic rate, while preserving the lowerrate around the remainder of the gives a customer more controlover their network Grooming andTransport STS-1 level bandwidth managementacross the 48 STS-1 payload DS-1 Grooming and drop Full TSI for hairpinning at the VT levelWhen cross-connecting traffic from thering to the access network, high-speedtransport and flexible access can onlyresult from a sophisticated some may have the luxury ofproclaiming that bandwidth is cheap-rackspace, craft personnel and powerare 112 VT matrix within the Alcatel1603 SMX provides grooming within the 48 STS-1 payload.

5 For a serviceprovider, this means the differencebetween dropping a DS-1 from an STS-1without dedicating that STS-1 to anyparticular drop group, or nailing up anentire STS-1 to drop a single DS-1. Inthe first case, the remaining 27 VTs inthat STS-1 can pass through to theirdestination. This is the most efficientway of routing traffic. In the secondcase, you have to burn bandwidth toachieve similar results. By droppingDS-1s efficiently, ALCATEL 1603 SMXreduces the necessary footprint andinfrastructure required for this ALCATEL 1603 SMX matrix is capableof providing 112 DS-1s, 48 DS-3/STS-1s,16 OC-3s, or 4 OC-12s, or anycombination totaling 48 STS-1s from asingle shelf. When configured with OC-48 high-speed optics, a standard seven-foot telco rack can support up to fourfully loaded SMX shelves in electricalmode totaling 448 DS-1s or 192 DS3s. Ifthe ALCATEL 1603 SMX is used as anoptical only application, a seven-footrack can support up to five SMXshelves (80 OC-3s, 20 OC-12s.)

6 High SpeedInterfaceSTSTS1 Packet (IP)CrossconnectATMC rossconnectVTCrossconnectSTS(1/3c/12c/48 c)CrossconnectSTSTS1 High SpeedInterfaceSTSTS1 DropGroup 3 DropGroup 3 DropGroup 2 DropGroup 1 High SpeedInterfaceSTSTSIS witching FabricGigabitExpansionBus (subtendedSMX shelves, managedas one NE)VTCrossconnectSTS(1/3c/12c/48c)Crossc onnectSTSTSIHigh SpeedInterfaceSTSTS1 DropGroup 3 DropGroup 3 DropGroup 2 DropGroup 1 ALCATEL 1603 SMX System Architecture4 Metro Trans-Access The ALCATEL 1603 SMX is an idealsolution for service providers who need high-speed transport and accessflexibility within the metro markets such as Multi-TenantUnits (MTU) and Multi-User Dwellings(MUD) require high-speed equipmentbe placed near the edge or on thecustomer premises. These marketsrequire high-speed transport, but needthe flexibility to provide interfaces atthe DS-1 level and greater. The Alcatel1603 SMX provides electrical andoptical drops within the same shelf, and can be placed in a closet.

7 The ALCATEL 1603 SMX is the onlyoptical network element withtemperature-hardened optics. Theseoptics, up to and including OC-48, can operate within a temperature rangeof 40 to +65 degrees C allowing fordeployment in areas outside HubSMXSMXOC-12DS-3DS-1OC-3 POSPOSSMXT ypical Metro Application5 Metro Transport While new edge applications havecontributed to the need for metrotransport closer to the traffic source,the sheer volume of traffic exchangedbetween central offices warrants aninexpensive, highly efficient method fortransporting traffic. The ALCATEL 1603 SMX is the ideal solution for providerswho require high speed, reliableconnections between their points-of-presence (POPs). The ALCATEL 1603 SMXcan aggregate various types of trafficentering the office directly from devicessuch as Digital Loop Carriers (DLCs),Digital Subscriber Line AccessMultiplexers (DSLAMs), and voicecircuits. Traffic is transported at lowercost and with greater reliability than atraditional meshed, fully ALCATEL 1603 SMX provides theinterfaces necessary to deliver multi-rate services to the metro than deploy various devices toperform different functions, orbackhaul single-rate traffic to a centraloffice, the ALCATEL 1603 SMX fills thefunction of several devices within asingle shelf.

8 The ALCATEL 1603 SMXmoves this functionality closer to theedge of the network, reducing the needfor costly facilities and extraneousequipment. The ALCATEL 1603 SMX provides thefollowing drop-group interfaces:RateQuantity per Shelf10/100 Base-T16DS1112DS3/ STS-148OC-3/STS-3c16OC-12/STS-12c16 SMXASAMDSL aggregation andTDM transport in one productOutdoor CabinetLiteSpanOC-3 Building 2 Building 1 SMXOC-48100 Mb EthernetDS-3sBandwidth ServicesAggregation and TransportAlcatel 1603 SMX Reliability and Survivability6 Certification andComplianceFlexibility and affordability are greatattributes, but you shouldn t have tosacrifice reliability and interoperabilityto get them. The ALCATEL 1603 SMX isdesigned as carrier class SONET-basedmetro access equipment and wasdesigned to the standards /specifications developed in conjunctionwith other vendors in the opticalnetworking industry. Thesespecifications include Telcordia s GR-253, GR-418, GR-63, standard OSImodel, and NEBS level 3.

9 By designingequipment to these specifications andtesting equipment to that level, Alcatelensured the carrier class 1603 SMXwould be interoperable with othervendors optical carrier class product should have a level of defined reliability andsurvivability such that a carrier would feel confident deploying it intheir reliability and survivabilityrequirements and objectives arecontained within Telcordia s GR-418 Generic Reliability AssuranceRequirements for Fiber Optic TransportSystems and GR-63, NetworkEquipment Building Specifications(NEBS) documents. With regard tonetwork reliability, the ALCATEL 1603 SMX not only meets the alreadystringent requirements of GR-418; itexceeds its more stringent objectives. There are three levels of NEBS certification with level 3 being the moststringent. NEBS is Telcordia s measureof hardware survivability and suitabilityfor carrier deployment. While thestructure of survivability testing isdictated by the specification, theconfiguration of the product to betested is not.

10 Some vendors utilize theminimum hardware configurationduring testing to reduce the number ofpossible points of failure. In contrast tothis, ALCATEL 1603 SMX passed NEBS level 3 testing with a full complementof plug-in modules. The ALCATEL 1603 SMX also passed the special burn testrequired for entry into manyRBOC/ILEC andMaintenanceThe ALCATEL 1301 NMX application runson an ordinary PC using the Windowsoperating system. It incorporatesfeatures such as FTP, remote softwaredownload, and fast database backupthrough the use of a binary features give the ALCATEL 1603 SMX an advantage in the categories ofmaintenance and ALCATEL 1603 SMX has beenincorporated into the ALCATEL 1353 GEMelement management product ALCATEL 1353 GEM is an easy-to-usegraphical user interface that simplifiesoperations with features such asremote provisioning, configurationwizards, graphical equipment view, andon-line help.