3600

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.

> 8 ALCATEL

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.

> 12 ALCATEL

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

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BSC

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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.

> 14 ALCATEL

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

A

BSCBTS

BTS

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8

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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.

> 18 ALCATEL

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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