Ethernet/TDM access to IP network

Overview

Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX provides access to the IP service delivering platforms, which enable such capabilities as virtual routing services, Layer 3 VPNs, firewall support, and IPsec Tunnels. These enhanced IP services allow service providers to offer customers state-of-the-art networking capabilities such as network based VPNs, built-in QoS, bullet-proof security, multi-tenant Internet access, voice/data convergence, and other next generation applications.

Description

While Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX single-handedly enables such things as voice/data convergence, it is important to state that the majority of the services listed above are supported by various IP Services platforms (Alcatel-Lucent's Access Point^® Routers, and Brick Firewall Family for example). The Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX, however provides an efficient and crucial link between metro area networks and these IP Services platforms located in the network core.

In the figure below the Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX is hosting an OC-48/192 metro ring connected to an OC-12/48 access ring on one end, and the metro core on the other. On the access ring side, Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX provides a link to CPE sized multiplexers (which are in turn connected to routers or firewalls) or directly to IP routers (over 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet interfaces).

On the other side of the metro ring, the Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX is connected to an IP Services switch (both TDM and Ethernet interfaces supported by some IP switches). IP services switches can then provide a range of enhanced IP services.

Figure 3-14: Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX providing Ethernet/TDM access to the internet

Application advantages

Alcatel-Lucent 1665 DMX allows service provider's access networks to support today's enterprise customer needs with TDM to IP services migration, access to high-security multiservice platforms (i.e. SpringTide^®), and efficient aggregation of last-mile voice and data services.