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Alcatel’s MainStreet Business Access PortfolioDoing Business on MainStreet
“Alcatel’s MainStreet access portfolio of products, including
multiservice access platforms (MAPs), integrated access devices
(IADs) and network termination units (NTUs), addresses the
needs of service providers who target enterprise customers
requiring mission-critical services.”
R A D H A V I C H A R E , R E S E A R C H A N A LY S T, I D C
The Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio
addresses the requirements of service providers
— both wireline and wireless — and enterprise
customers. Enterprise customers from govern-
ment, financial, utilities and natural resources
exploration industries, among others, are already
benefiting from MainStreet in their networks —
not to mention more than 300 service providers
worldwide who have helped make Alcatel
MainStreet the most successful digital overlay
platform ever built.
With the Alcatel MainStreet business access
portfolio of products, service providers and
enterprise customers benefit from network
solutions that are:
> Manageable: Easy to deploy, provision,
manage and maintain
> Available: Field-proven with ≥99.999 percent
reliability
> Profitable: Cost-effective and revenue-ready
for frame relay, private line, and X.25-based
services and applications
ALCATEL 1 >
DOING BUSINESS
ON MAINSTREET
The Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio
encompasses stable, reliable, and field-proven
products. Equally important is the fact that
Alcatel MainStreet delivers the key benefits that
service providers and enterprise customers are
demanding today including consolidation, cost
savings, investment protection and simplified
operations, among others. The following table
equates the benefits sought by service providers
with the features that the Alcatel MainStreet
business access portfolio delivers to address
the benefits.
> 2 ALCATEL
KEY BENEFITS FOR
YOUR BUSINESS
Benefits Features
Voice and data convergence in a single product • Full support for analog voice and legacy data interfaces, including:
– Voice: E&M, FXS (LGS), FXO (LGE)
– Data: V.35, X.21, EIA/TIA-449, EIA/TIA-232 and EIA/TIA-530
• Resource cards allow for voice compression, data multiplexing and data switching
• Advanced frame relay features, such as QoS and DLCI multiplexing, optimize converged packetized voice and data services
Cost savings through statistical multiplexing • Multiple subrate interfaces can be multiplexed into a single time slot
• Data interfaces can support subrate and superate data at varying speeds from 800 b/s to 2 Mb/s
• E1 and T1 interfaces can be accommodated in the same platform
Cost savings through network consolidation • Multiservice, multitechnology platforms that deliver advanced services for global carrier and enterprisecustomers, including frame relay, X.25, ATM, TDM, xDSL, IP, VoFR, ISDN and other services
Protects investment in infrastructure while • Enables customer networks to take up emerging technologies, such as ATM and IP, supporting network evolution through integration or network consolidation, as opposed to migration
• Easy migration to higher speed interfaces for an existing installed base
• Easy migration from TDM to packet/cell services
Simplified and cost effective operation • Fully network managed by industry-leading Alcatel 5620 Network Manager (NM) — user-friendlysupport for end-to-end installation and maintenance
• Easy-to-use GUI means operations are consistent across nodes and services, for faster service delivery
• Point-and-click across multivendor, multi-access, edge, aggregation and multicore networks
• Continuous synchronization with the network
• Solves problems before customers even know about them through proactive management
Reliability • Field-proven performance, with greater than 99.999 percent availability—letting service providers offer low risk service level guarantees
• The most successful digital overlay platforms ever built—the worldwide installed base stands at more than 250,000 nodes, and growing
• A deployment of more than 800,000 NTUs worldwide
High value • Alcatel MainStreet products aggregate multiservice traffic, eliminating the need for multiple leasedlines; they are key elements for network optimization
Table 1: Benefits and Associated Features of the Alcatel MainStreet Business Access Portfolio
The Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio
encompasses high-value access and customer
premises products designed to help customers
take advantage of current and future telecommuni-
cations opportunities. As per Table 2, the Alcatel
MainStreet business access portfolio comprises
a feature-rich and comprehensive range of
products including Multiservice Access Platforms
(MAPs), Integrated Access Devices (IADs) and
Network Termination Units (NTUs). Alcatel
MainStreet’s installed base stands at more than
250,000 nodes and more than 800,000 NTUs
worldwide.
ALCATEL 3 >
THE ALCATEL MAINSTREET
BUSINESS ACCESS PORTFOLIO
Table 2: Alcatel MainStreet Business Access Portfolio
Multiservice Access Platforms (MAPs)
Alcatel 3600 MainStreet A flexible, scalable and intelligent networking node that combines the functions of an Multiservice Bandwidth Manager integrated voice and data multiplexer, a frame relay and X.25 switch, a low capacity ATM
access node, an intelligent channel bank, and a digital cross-connect switch
Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet In addition to offering all of the capabilities of the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet MultiserviceMultiservice Bandwidth Manager Bandwidth Manager, the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager offers
fiber optic and electrical interfaces at STM-1/OC-3 speeds. It supports a wide range of circuit-and packet-based voice and data services, and is fully compatible with the Alcatel 3600MainStreet Bandwidth Manager, providing seamless integration into existing networks andprotecting equipment investment
Alcatel 36110 MainStreet Offers a comprehensive suite of features that allow you to merge the user environment —Multiprotocol Concentrator (MPC) synchronous and asynchronous terminals, system network architectures (SNAs), and local
area networks (LANs) — with available high speed WAN communications services
Alcatel 36111 MainStreet High Capacity Allows you to maintain current legacy applications, while taking advantage of high capacityMultiprotocol Concentrator (HMPC) network backbones
Integrated Access Devices (IADs)
Alcatel 3624 MainStreet Sophisticated network access product that provides a cost-effective method of connecting Intelligent T1 Channel Bank (ICB) voice and data devices such as telephones, private branch exchanges (PBXs), routers,
bridges, personal computers and servers into a multiservice network
Alcatel 3630 MainStreet A high performance, compact, intelligent T1 (1.544 Mb/s) or E1 Primary Rate Multiplexer(PRM) (2.048 Mb/s) multiplexer, terminating up to 30 voice or data circuits
Alcatel 3612 MainStreet Supports various combinations of voice and high/low speed data, including connections Narrowband Multiplexer (NBM) from LAN routers and up to 24 analog or digital connections
Network Termination Units (NTUs)
Alcatel 2902 MainStreet Delivers managed bandwidth access of up to 2 Mb/s over existing copper pairs (HDSL)Network Termination Unit (NTU) or E1 facilities
Alcatel 2801 MainStreet Provides a simple and economical vehicle to deliver data services at speeds of up to 1 Mb/sHDSL Data Termination Unit (DTU) over a single pair, or up to 2 Mb/s over two pairs of unconditioned copper wires
Alcatel 275x MainStreet IDSL DTU An attractive solution for providing services of up to 128 kb/s to remote sites. Three types are available:
• Alcatel 2751 MainStreet DTU with TIA/EIA-232 (RS-232) user ports
• Alcatel 2752 MainStreet DTU with X.21 user ports
• Alcatel 2753 MainStreet DTU with V.35 user ports
Alcatel 2704 MainStreet DTU V.110 Focused specifically at end-user applications requiring V.110 rate adaptation
The Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio
addresses the needs of government, financial,
utilities, and natural resources exploration
enterprise customers, among others.
Government Regional Government/Military/
Law Enforcement/Airport Authority
Application
The State of Vermont’s new, integrated voice,
data and video network depicted in Figure 1
replaces the State’s existing analog system and
includes the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice
Bandwidth Manager, the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager, the Alcatel
3624 MainStreet Intelligent T1 Channel Bank
(ICB), as well as the Alcatel 7470 Multiservice
Platform (MSP), Alcatel 7270 Multiservice
Concentrator (MSC), and Alcatel MDR-8000
microwave radios. It enables the State of
Vermont to provide faster emergency response
and increase public safety. Traffic from hundreds
of public offices, including the Department of
Public Services, National Guard, police stations,
fire halls, ambulance barns, and utilities across
the state will be handled through the communi-
cations headquarters in Waterbury, VT.
The multipurpose Alcatel MainStreet business
access portfolio provides switching, grooming
and access services. The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager connects
> 4 ALCATEL
AN ENTERPRISING PORTFOLIO
7470 MSP
3600MainStreet
MobileAntenna
7470 MSP
MobileAntenna
MicrowaveBackbone
MicrowaveAccess
MicrowaveAccess
nxDS1nxDS1
PBX
3624 ICB or3630 PRM
+
RouterPSTN
3600MainStreet
3600MainStreet
“This new network
will allow us to share
much more informa-
tion between many
more agencies. It is
arriving at a time
when homeland
security efforts are
much more important
than ever before”
A. JAMES WALTON,
COMMISSIONER,
VERMONT DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Figure 1: Alcatel MainStreet Regional Government/Military/Law Enforcement/Airport Authority Application
to lower speed microwave links that allow the
government network to access smaller, remote
offices. These offices could be police or fire
stations, libraries or other government facilities.
At these remote sites, an IAD (the Alcatel 3624
MainStreet ICB or the Alcatel 3630 MainStreet
PRM) is used to allow access for numerous
government services to the State or provincial
network. The highly flexible and configurable
Alcatel 3624 MainStreet ICB or Alcatel 3630
MainStreet PRM provide a wide variety of voice
and data interfaces, which is ideal for smaller
branch offices. Phone, Internet and other services
can be provided and optimized by these IADs.
Lottery Application
Another application of interest to government
customers is the lottery application. Government
lottery corporations around the world sell lottery
tickets and online gaming services to the public.
Online lottery and gaming terminals are located
remotely in convenience stores and other retail
outlets, which are often widely dispersed
throughout a city, region or country. The most
critical element of the lottery, the communica-
tions network, provides connectivity between
the online terminals and the host systems. The
Alcatel MainStreet lottery application is, therefore
focused on connecting a large number of low
speed terminals to a centralized host or database.
Alcatel MainStreet supports two lottery applica-
tions to address North American and rest-of-world
deployment options. The North American variant
is depicted in Figure 2. A similar configuration
using the Alcatel MainStreet X.25 application
is also available.
ALCATEL 5 >
Figure 2: Alcatel MainStreet Lottery Application for North America
LotteryTerminals OCU-DP
3600 MainStreet
MJU
T1
LotteryTerminals OCU-DP
3600 MainStreet
OCU-DP up toapprox. 50,000 ft.
at 4.8 kb/s
MJU
T1
3600 MainStreet
MUX
T1Primary Host
Secondary Host
Financial Financial Dealer Boards or
“Hoot and Holler” Application
The world’s most extensive financial services
network, an existing Alcatel customer, is
deploying the Alcatel 3612 MainStreet NBM,
the Alcatel 3630 MainStreet PRM, the Alcatel
3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager and the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager to expand
its global network, and provide coverage
to the world’s key financial centers.
Alcatel MainStreet’s ability to address their
mission-critical requirements was key to the
contract win.
These financial dealer boards or “hoot and
holler”, depicted in Figure 3 are a key MainStreet
application for enterprise customers in the
financial industry. The Alcatel 3612 MainStreet
NBM can be used in this application in place
of the Alcatel 3630 MainStreet PRM, providing
the primary E1 link, or V.35 for North American
applications.
> 6 ALCATEL
“In the electronic
financial services
industry, network
security and reliability
are paramount to
establish trust with
our customers. Alcatel’s
MainStreet portfolio
and 5620 Network
Manager enable the
confident delivery
of secure financial
services to quickly
capitalize on growing
customer demand.”
RICHARD TILLEY, ACCOUNT
DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL
CARRIERS IN ALCATEL U.K.
Figure 3: Financial Dealer Boards or "Hoot and Holler" Application
3630 PRM
Financial Institution Financial Institution
3630 PRM
Financial Institution
Dealer Board
Dealer Board
Dealer Board
Dealer Board
Dealer Board
3612 NBM
Multiple CopperTwisted PairGEN–GENConnections
SwitchingUnit
3600MainStreet
E1/T1
E1/T1
E1/X.21/V.35+
3600+MainStreet
Private LeasedNetwork
+
+
X.25 Application
The Alcatel MainStreet X.25 application is used
in nationwide financial networks to ensure high
quality, reliable, and secure electronic transaction
and payment services. As shown in Figure 4,
electronic transactions from all data devices
such as bank terminals, point of sale terminals
and automated tellers are sent over the Alcatel
MainStreet X.25 network to redundant data
centers. Usually, all terminals feed into the main
data center, where the transactions are sent to
the host system.
Leased Line/Private Line Applications
The financial industry also uses the Alcatel
MainStreet business access portfolio in leased
line/private line applications. These applications
are discussed in the “At Your Service” section.
ALCATEL 7 >
FrameRelayPSTN
X.25
nx64 kb/sX.25
3600MainStreet
36110 MPC
3600MainStreet
275x DTURS-232
X.259.6 kb/s
Async X.289.6 kb/s
AsyncDial
AutomatedTeller
Point of Sale
BranchData Terminal
3600MainStreet
Host
Hunt Group Lines
Hunt Group Lines
Site A
Site B
nx64 kb/sX.25
Host
Figure 4: Alcatel MainStreet X.25 Application for Financial Vertical Market
UtilitiesMetro Optical Application
Utility companies are uniquely positioned to
leverage their established rights of way (ROW)
to accommodate their enterprise network require-
ments. An example of a key application that
addresses the requirements of a utility network
is the metro optical application depicted in
Figure 5.
The metro optical application is common in
utility networks where voice and data circuits
from various locations are inserted and dropped
along the route. The Alcatel MainStreet products
support linear drop-and-insert ring mode, as
well as point-to-point configurations.
Figure 5 depicts a typical utility network
where connectivity between a central site
and numerous remote sites is required.
Typical requirements include voice services,
data terminal-to-server connections, telemetry
monitoring and remote LAN connectivity.
Regional Government Variation
The regional government application discussed
earlier is also applicable to utilities customers.
In fact, a variation of the State of Vermont
network is deployed for both hydro and
railroad utility customers.
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Server
3630 PRM
3630 PRM
3630 PRM
5620 NMPBX
3600+MainStreet
3600+MainStreet
3600+MainStreet
3600+MainStreet
3630 PRM3630 PRM3630 PRM
+
PBX
+
PSTN
Control Center
+ +++
Figure 5: Alcatel MainStreet Metro Optical Application
Natural Resources ExplorationOil and gas exploration companies have similar
network requirements to those in the govern-
ment and utilities vertical markets. They require
reliable, robust networking solutions for their
internal traffic. Again, a variation on the regional
government application is often a good fit for
these high value customers to deliver mission-
critical data to remote locations.
One of the world’s largest producers of crude
oil is deploying the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager to extend the
reach of their network to remote locations while
providing absolute reliability. In this case, it is
the Alcatel 7390 Local Multipoint Distribution
System (LMDS) solution rather than the Alcatel
MDR-8000 microwave radios that provides the
wireless portion of the network.
ALCATEL 9 >
“As the mining industry
introduces automated
processes throughout
their mining operation,
they will continue to
require reliable, robust
networking solutions,
such as MainStreet,
for their internal traffic.”
TERRY PETTIGREW, SENIOR ACCOUNT
DIRECTOR, ALCATEL
The Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio
addresses the needs of wireline and wireless
service providers.
The multiservice nature of the Alcatel MainStreet
business access portfolio means that it is difficult
to adequately cover its full range of applications.
While a comprehensive list of applications can
be found in Table 3, here are a few that address
the needs of service providers in their wireline
and wireless networks:
> Private line
> Metro optical
> Consolidated X.25 networking
> Mobile aggregation, billing and backbone
networks
> Enterprise access services
> Voice and data convergence over frame relay
> Flexible small-to-medium enterprise
(SME)/multiple tenant units (MTU) access
distribution and aggregation
> Leased line
> Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) signaling
transport
> 10 ALCATEL
AT YOUR SERVICE
Private Line One of the main applications of the Alcatel
MainStreet business access portfolio is private
line services (shown in Figure 6), which allow
the service provider to offer customers customer
premises equipment (CPE) that is connected into
the network to backhaul data from the remote
site to the headquarters. Very often, this is used
for LAN-to-LAN or LAN-to-host connections
where the remote site is accessing databank
information, headquarter-controlled applications,
and access to the Internet. Benefits of this type
of configuration include centrally controlled
firewalls, version control of applications, and
control of Internet content and access speeds, etc.
Metro OpticalMetro optical, already discussed in the utilities
section, is also of interest to service providers
within the context of their metropolitan area
networks (MAN).
ALCATEL 11 >
3600MainStreet
3600+MainStreet
Network
275x DTU
2801HSDL DTU
275x DTU
2801HSDL DTU
E1/T1
Databank
STM-1/OC-3UPSR Ring
LAN Internet
2801HSDL DTU
2801HSDL DTU
Office Building/MDU/SOHO
Office Building/MDU/SOHO
Headquarters
275x DTU
Figure 6: Alcatel MainStreet Private Line Application
Consolidated X.25 NetworkingAlcatel MainStreet products are deployed in
service provider networks throughout the world
to provide relatively inexpensive, scalable and
flexible X.25 wide area networking services.
Although newer technologies are available,
X.25 is still a central component of any
multiservice network.
For data network consolidation, the Alcatel 3600
MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
platform is the only truly integrated, multiservice
platform, supporting TDM, frame relay, and X.25
(see Figure 7). For networks with unsupported
equipment, Alcatel MainStreet X.25 provides a
low cost solution.
Mobile Aggregation, Billing and Backbone NetworksThe Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio
offers the opportunity to take advantage of the
aggregation, billing and backbone network
support requirements of mobile networks.
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ATMBackbone
Frame RelayBackbone
3600MainStreet
3600MainStreet
3600MainStreet
7470 MSP7470 MSP
7470 MSP
FEP
Host
X.25 X.25
X.25
NexusPASSNUI Validation
36111 HMPC
36110 MPC
5620 NM
Figure 7: Alcatel MainStreet Consolidated X.25 Networking
Figure 8 shows how, in a 2G mobile network, the
Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager and the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager are used to
consolidate and groom voice and low speed data
traffic from many base transceiver stations (BTS)
sites onto an aggregate E1/T1 for transport to
the mobile service switching center (MSC). The
Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager and Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multi-
service Bandwidth Manager have a fully
interconnected, nonblocking switching matrix
that allows connection of incoming, underutilized
base transceiver station (BTS) E1/T1 to be
switched to any time slots on the aggregate E1/T1
going to the MSC. One of the strengths of the
Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager and the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is their capability
to switch down to the DS0, and to 800 b/s granu-
larity when certain resource cards are present.
The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice
Bandwidth Manager also has X.25 functionality
that allows it to carry call detail records (CDRs)
from the BTS to the billing center at the MSC.
Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
Manager packet services can also be used to
their advantage by providing the statistical gain
of switched packet traffic through the backbone.
Adding frame relay to the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is as simple as
installing an additional card.
ALCATEL 13 >
3600MainStreet
MSC
Database
BTS
BTS
BTS
BSCOAM, SS7,
E1/T1
Voice,n*E1/T1
E1/T1 E1/T1
E1/T1
X.25
E1/T1
E1/T1
BTS
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BSC
PSTN
Figure 8: Alcatel MainStreet Aggregation of Voice and Billing Information of a 2G Mobile Network
As depicted in Figure 9, Alcatel MainStreet
products allow for a straightforward transition
from a 2G to a 2.5G network. Adding packetized
data to the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice
Bandwidth Manager or the Alcatel 3600+
MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is
as simple as adding a card. Alcatel MainStreet
allows service providers to protect their initial
investment and provides a natural evolution
from 2G to 2.5G services.
In Figure 10, the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet is
used between two MSCs to provide savings
by compressing voice traffic between the sites.
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MSC
VoiceCompression
BSC
BTS
E1/T1
E1/T1E1/T1E1/T1
E1/T1X.25
3600/3600+MainStreet
BTS
3600/3600+MainStreet
MSC
Database5620 NM
Figure 10: Alcatel MainStreet Voice Compression MSC-to-MSC
MSC
Gb/s
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BSCBTS
BTS
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8
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PSTN
Packet DataNetwork
GPRSBackbone
HLR
GGSN
SSGN
3600MainStreet
BSC3600MainStreet
Figure 9: Alcatel MainStreet Aggregation of Voice
and Billing Information 2G to 2.5G Evolution
Enterprise Access ServicesThe enterprise access services application
depicted in Figure 11 is deployed for Verizon,
who brand it FlexGrow. It is promoted as an
innovative service offering for small- and
medium-sized businesses to simplify their
communications networks by eliminating the
need for separate voice and data connections.
ALCATEL 15 >
Internet
3624 ICB
Fax
Telephones
RouterData/LAN
Devices
ServiceProvider'sNetwork
DDS
T1 PSTN+
Figure 11: Alcatel MainStreet Enterprise Access Service Application
“With Alcatel’s 3624
MainStreet ICB as a T1
integrated access device,
Verizon can now offer
customized service
packages that address
the individual voice and
dedicated Internet access
requirements of SME
customers from a single
platform. Alcatel’s 3624
MainStreet ICB also
supports the delivery of
multiple revenue generating
services including PBX,
transaction data traffic,
and video. Verizon also
deploys the MainStreet
3624 ICB to support critical
transactions within the
financial industry”
EXCERPT FROM THE JANUARY, 2002
PRESS RELEASE “VERIZON SELECTS
ALCATEL FOR NEW INTEGRATED VOICE
AND DATA ACCESS SERVICE”
Voice and Data Convergence over Frame RelayThe comprehensive range of Alcatel MainStreet
products is ideally suited for converged voice
and data services over frame relay. Frame relay
combines the best features of circuit switching
and packet switching to provide improved
response times and dramatically reduced
transmission costs for a variety of applications.
Frame relay, which is ideal for applications that
involve bursty data traffic from LANs, can be
easily integrated into existing networks.
Figure 12 shows a common network topology,
with several branch sites connected across a
high speed backbone. The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager and Alcatel
3612 MainStreet NBM units connect to the 3600
MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
node to transmit voice, fax, and data traffic
between the central site and the branches.
If a public frame relay network is being used,
the network needs to provide a frame relay
quality of service (QoS) control function.
Service providers can use either an Alcatel 3600
MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager or
Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth
> 16 ALCATEL
Router
Router
Branch Office withNarrowband Access
Headquarters
PSTN
ATM/MPLSBackbone
PBX
7470 MSP
7470 MSP
3612 NBM
PRI
PRI SS7 orISDN
FrameRelay
Frame Relay
Frame Relay
PRI
FrameRelay
or ATM
PRI
3600MainStreet
+
PBX
Router
Remote POP
PBX
3600MainStreet
Router
Regional Office
PBX
Figure 12: MainStreet Voice and Data Convergence Over Frame Relay
Manager system with a FASTbus or an Alcatel
7470 MSP system, as both support the stan-
dardized frame relay QoS functions according
to ITU-T Recommendation X.146.
Flexible SME/MTU AccessDistribution and AggregationReliable and flexible access to remote sites,
whether small office/home office (SOHO) or
SME/MTU, is a fundamental requirement in every
public network. As illustrated in Figure 13, the
Alcatel MainStreet product line supports a range
of scalable, cost-effective solutions that support
traditional E1/T1 services as well as xDSL
technologies.
Leased Line ApplicationThe Alcatel MainStreet business access
portfolio is ideally suited for leased line access
applications. The products can be used in voice,
data, or integrated voice and data networking,
and may be deployed in point-to-point, point-to-
network, and point-to-multipoint topologies.
ALCATEL 17 >
Figure 13: Alcatel MainStreet Flexible SME/MTU Access Distribution and Aggregation
3600MainStreet
2801 DTU
Router
HDSL
E1/T1
IDSL
V.35
V.35
E1/T1
2753DTU
3630 PRM+
IADTDM
ATM/MPLSBackbone
7670 RSP7470 MSP
Figure 14 depicts a typical leased line network
requiring business site connectivity. Typical
requirements include dedicated voice services,
data terminal-to-server connections, and remote
LAN connectivity. Bandwidths among the various
locations are leased from telecom carriers. These
lines are connected to the local point-of-presence
(PoP) within the enterprise network. The Alcatel
MainStreet equipment can be located at either
the PoPs or customer premises.
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3600MainStreet
3600MainStreet
3630 PRM
Beijing
New York
+
CarrierNetwork
Enterprise Network
3624 ICB
PBX
PBX
Server
3612 NBM+
E1
T1 E1
Paris
London
E1/X.21
+
Figure 14: Alcatel MainStreet Leased Line Application
SS7 Signaling TransportAll basic and advanced services rely on SS7
networks, which carry signaling for all landline
and mobile telephone service providers. The SS7
network is the basis for transporting information
that service providers use for billing. It is mission-
critical in nature, demanding the highest
standards in reliability and maintainability.
The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice
Bandwidth Manager and Alcatel 3600+
MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager,
offering a wide variety of user interfaces, have
proven reliable in SS7 networks around the
world. Figure 15 depicts the Alcatel MainStreet
SS7 application in a wireline environment.
ALCATEL 19 >
Figure 15: Alcatel MainStreet Wireline SS7 Application
3600/3600+MainStreet
STP
SSP
SCP
3600MainStreet5620 NM
3600/3600+MainStreet
STP
SSP
SCP
3600MainStreet
Product category MAP IAD NTUProducts 3600 3600+ 36110 36111 3624 3630 3612 2902 2801 275x 2704
G O V E R N M E N T A P P L I C A T I O N S
Regional government • • • • • • • • • • •Lottery • • • •
Education networks • • • • •Integrated communications solutions • • • • •
Multiservice consolidation • • • • •F I N A N C I A L A P P L I C A T I O N S
Financial dealer boards • • • • •X.25 • • • •
Leased line/private line • • • • • • • • • • •Branch office networking • • • • • • •
Voice and data convergence • • • • • •U T I L I T I E S A P P L I C A T I O N S
Regional government variation • • • • • • • • •Metro optical • • • • •
Surveillance and telemetry • • • • • • •Linear add/drop networks • • • • •
S E R V I C E P R O V I D E R A P P L I C A T I O N S
Private line • • • • • • • • • • •Metro optical •
Consolidated X.25 networking • • • •Mobile aggregation, billing and backbone networks • •
Enterprise access services • • • • • • • •Voice and data convergence over frame relay • • •
Flexible SME/MTU access distribution and aggregation • • • • • • • • • • •Leased line • • • • • • • • • • •
SS7 signaling transport • •Add/drop multiplexing • • • • •
Digital access and cross-connect (DACS) • •Business-class xDSL access • • • • • • • •
ATM access • •Frame relay switching • • •
Cellular base station aggregation and grooming • • •Billing (CDR) and OAM message transport • •
Voice and data convergence • • • • • •Voice compression • • •
Managed data services • • • • • • • • • • •Legacy protocol concentration • •
Data network consolidation • • • • • • • • • • •G E N E R A L ( M A X I M U M )
# of universal card slots 128 16# of E1 ports 256 128 2# of T1 ports 256 128 1 2# of E3 ports 16# of T3 ports 8 3# of circuits 24 30 24
Maximum speed 2048 2048 128 128 Mb/s Mb/s kb/s kb/s
A G G R E G A T E I N T E R F A C E S
1.544 Mb/s T1 (D4, ESF, 64 kb/s chan.) • • • •DS3 • •
E3 •2.048 Mb/s E1 (CAS, CCS, 64 kb/s chan.) • • • • •
X.21 PRI • • •V.35 PRI • • •E1 HDSL • • • •S/T BRI • • •
U BRI • • •X.21 • •V.35 • •
Optical extension E1 • • • •
Table 3: Alcatel MainStreet Business Access Portfolio Applications, Architecture and Interfaces
Product category MAP IAD NTUProducts 3600 3600+ 36110 36111 3624 3630 3612 2902 2801 275x 2704
V O I C E I N T E R F A C E S
T1 (D4 and ESF formats) • • • •E1 CAS and CCS, R2D (E&M) • • • • •
E&M • • • • •4WTO • • •2WTO •
FXS (LGS) • • • • •FXO (LGE) • • • • •
MRD • • • • •U BRI • • •
GEN-GEN • • • •D A T A I N T E R F A C E S
RS422 • •T1A/E1 A-232 • • • • • • • • • • •
E1 G.703 • • • • •Ethernet 10Base-T •
2B1Q (for NTU connections) • • • • • •OCU-DP • • • •DSO-DP • •
X.21 • • • • • • • • • •V.35 • • • • • • • • • •
Frame relay • • • • •V.24, V.28, T1A/E1A-232-C • •
X.21/V.11 • •S O N E T / S D H
SONET OC-3 •SDH STM-1 •
D S P A P P L I C A T I O N S
Voice compression8 and 16 kb/s HCV compression • • •8 kb/s A-CELP (ITU-T Rec. G.729) • • •
16 kb/s LD-CELP (ITU-T Rec. G.728) • • •ADPCM (ITU-T Rec. G.721) 32 kb/s • • •
G3 fax support V.17) over compressed voice (14.4 kb/s max.) • • •Modem (v.32 bis) tones support over compressed (CELP) voice (14.4 kb/s) • • •
Subrate multiplexing • • •Switching of compressed voice and data • •
Echo cancellation (26 ms, G.165) • • •Voice conference bridging • • •
Mu/A-law companding conversion • •Multidrop PCM data bridging • • • •
1.460 (n*8 kb/s transparent) multiplexing • •High capacity multiplexing (HCM) • • • • • •
DDS and X.50 rate adaptation • • • •P A C K E T S E R V I C E S
Frame relay switching • • • • •Frame relay access device • • •
Subrate frame relay (DDS, X.50, HCM) • •Transparent HDLC encapsulation • • • • •Voice over frame relay (FRF.11) • • •
QoS (X.146) • • •Frame relay fragmentation (FRF.12) • • •
DLCI multiplexing (FRF.11) • • •Frame relay/ATM network interworking (FRF.5) • •Frame relay/ATM service interworking (FRF.8) • •
AAL1 and AAL5 adaptation • •Inverse muxing over ATM (IMA) • •
X.25/FR network/service interworking • •X.25 SVC and PVC • • • •
X.75 and X.75’ • •Asynchronous PAD (X.3, X.28, X.29) • •
Legacy protocols (SNA, SDLC/QLLC, BSC) • •PSTN switched access (X.32 and V.25bis) • •
Centralized protocol tracing • •
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