1631 LMC

Wi deband Di gi tal Cross-Connect

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Introduction
At Alcatel, we understand that
managing todays network is a
challenging job. Service providers must
meet growing bandwidth demands,
deliver services in a timely manner,
build a network that satises the
markets changing requirements and
keep overhead costs to a minimum. To
help overcome those challenges, we
developed the Alcatel 1631 LMC. One of
the industrys most innovative cross-
connects, the LMC is engineered with
both wideband and broadband
functionality built into the same matrix.
A highly exible product, the LMC
terminates, interconnects, and monitors
both asynchronous and SONET signals.
The LMC manages leased line services
(at the T1 level), and delivers ADSL,
DSL, ATM, ISDN, Frame Relay, and
packet services over SONET rings. By
allowing multiple access rings to
integrate with the metro hub, the LMC
provides a cost-effective way to manage
the transport of voice, data, video, and
IP trafc on one network.
Alcatels exclusive FlexPoint
TM
card
supports both DS-3 and STS-1,
simplifying network planning and
migration. Finally, to ensure the LMC
meets both current and future needs, it
enables seamless, in-service network
growth quickly and cost-effectively,
from one DS-3/STS-1 port to 3,360
DS-3/STS-1 equivalent ports.
Managing a protable network will
always be a challenge for service
providers. With Alcatel as your partner,
it doesnt have to be an impossible task.
Look to Alcatel for all your network
telecommunications needs. We have
end-to-end carrier class solutions for
use on land, undersea, and around
the globe.
Product Features Summary
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Meets the Demands for
Network Consolidation
M Eliminates the need for multiple ber
optic transmission systems, M13
network elements, and add/drop
multiplexers
M Provides powerful grooming
capabilities from DS-1/VT1.5 to
DS-3/STS-1/OC-3/OC-12/OC-48*
* Contact your Alcatel sales
representative for availability.
Enables Seamless Network
Growth
M Seamlessly migrates from 1 to 3,360
DS-3/STS-1 equivalent ports - without
service interruption
Provides Superior Carrier
Class Unlimited OC-N Ring
Support
M Offers unlimited OC-3 and OC-12
terminal and integrated ring capacity
M Capable of carrier class digital
communications (DCC) channel
management
M Includes a distributed processing
architecture with DCC rewall
protection
Versatile Universal I/ O Bay
and FlexPoint
TM
Card
M Designed to support STS-1, DS-3,
OC-3, OC-12, and FlexPoint cards
in the same shelf
M Universal bay/shelf/backplane with
universal common equipment
Ensures Availability
M Designed with a robust advanced
protection architecture and an
advanced distributed processor
architecture
Provides Extensive Remote
Provisioning and Network
Monitoring Capabilities
M Offers OAM&P capabilities for
network efciency
M Provides network monitoring from
one centralized location
M Facility summary commands for a
quick update of system capacity
M Remote database backup/restore
M Remote software download/upgrade
Equipment and Facility
Control
M FlashCut
TM
feature allows circuit
cutovers from legacy equipment to
occur almost instantaneously
(<50 ms to any T1)
M Capable of remote I/O bay locations
up to 500 meters from the matrix
M Customer network alarms feature
supports ANSI T1.403 - 1999
standardized signals (AIS-CI, RAI-CI)
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Meets the Demands for
Network Consolidation
Todays central ofces have become a
conglomeration of equipment that
include multiple back-to-back ber
optic transmission systems, M13s,
add/drop multiplexers (ADMs),
performance monitoring equipment,
test heads, and cabling. While all of this
equipment is intended to help networks
run as efciently and cost-effectively as
possible, it has done just the opposite.
Large quantities of equipment
increase costs and decrease reliability
and efciency.
The LMC combines the operations of
ber optic transmission (FOT) systems,
ADMs and M13s, making an efcient,
reliable, and compact network solution.
Also, its industry leading Universal I/O
Bay supports STS-1, DS-3, OC-3, and
OC-12 functions, thereby simplifying
cabling, lowering maintenance costs,
and reducing oor space requirements.
The LMC provides the DS-1/VT1.5
grooming and cross-connect technology
needed to effectively manage network
interconnections. This technology
enables the LMC to ll pipes to
capacity, groom from DS-1 to STS-3c,
and maximize network capacity.
SMX
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Mobile
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OC-3/ STS-1/ DS-3
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Voice
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CPE
LMC
Enables Seamless Network
Growth
Because bandwidth demands increase
daily, service providers must be able to
grow quickly. That is why the LMC is
designed with superior growth
expansion capabilities that enable
increases from 1 DS-3/STS-1 port to
3,360 DS-3/STS-1 equivalent ports
seamlessly and without service
interruption.
The LMC has a VT1.5 level matrix that
supports up to 3,360 DS-3/STS-1
equivalent ports. The smallest LMC
starter conguration, the 240 Core,
supports up to 240 DS-3/STS-1 ports,
requires three I/O bays, and only one
administration bay and one matrix bay.
The LMCs capacity upgrades are
straightforward and cost-effective,
simply add matrix bays. These upgrades
require no additional center stage or
administration bays. This is a major
advantage of the LMC over other digital
cross-connects. It saves both money
and oor space by eliminating
unnecessary bays. Also, the LMC can be
upgraded while in-service without
affecting trafc. It has a growth-friendly
architecture that reuses 100%of its
modules, thereby protecting initial
equipment investments.
With its unique expansion capabilities,
the LMC is the right choice - from an
end ofce to a major hub.
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End Stage/ Center Stage
240 Port Capacity Matrix
Center Stage End Stage
672 Port Capacity Matrix
Center Stage End Stage End Stage End Stage End Stage
2688 Port Capacity Matrix
End Stage
Center Stage
End Stage
End Stage End Stage
End Stage
3360 Port Capacity Matrix
Center Stage End Stage End Stage
1344 Port Capacity Matrix
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Provides Superior Carrier
Class Unlimited
OC-N Ring Support
The LMC is a forward-looking, exible
solution that enables effective
management of your network evolution.
It is an ideal hub for multiple access
rings, provides innovative ring
management solutions, and has a
robust network protection architecture.
The LMC can operate as a node on over
1120 SONET OC-3 protected rings and
provides the matrix capability to fully
interconnect the rings. It also provides
SONET and asynchronous trafc
management capabilities, upgradeable
optical rates from OC-3 to OC-12, and
the capacity to cross-connect
embedded DS-1s into higher rate
facilities. Designed with distributed
processing architecture that contains
a DCC rewall and isolates system
operation during a network failure or
data storm condition.
The LMC combines optical interfaces
with both intraofce and interofce
capabilities and a SONET VT1.5 level
matrix for complete interconnection
functions. This allows operators with
multiple rings to interconnect facilities
without leaving the ofce. It can
interconnect services to voice or data
switches in the ofce, making it easy to
integrate new network elements into
existing ofce architectures such as
DSLAMs, soft switches, and IP routers.
With an advanced architecture for DCC
routing and processing, the LMC
supports as many OC-3 or OC-12 UPSR
rings as the matrix capacity allows.
It has a matrix capacity of 3,360
DS-3/STS-1 equivalent ports, the highest
ring capacity on the market today!
Versatile Universal I/ O Bay
and FlexPoint
TM
Card
The LMC Universal I/O Bay offers a
exible single-shelf solution. This bay
supports STS-1, DS-3, OC-3, STS-3c and
OC-12 terminations. The Universal I/O
Bay is equipped with two SI-48 shelves.
Each shelf supports 48 STS-1, 48 DS-3,
16 OC-3, or 4 OC-12 interfaces. To
ensure maximum bandwidth
availability, the STS-1s and DS-3s are
protected on a 1:8 basis and the
OC-3s and OC-12s are protected on
a 1+1 basis.
The FlexPoint
TM
card, housed in the
Universal I/O Bay, enables management
of the asynchronous DS-1/VT1.5 and
DS-3/STS-1 leased line services. It takes
the provisioning, performance
monitoring, and alarm capabilities of a
standard SONET interface and extends
them to the embedded asynchronous
DS-1 and DS-3 levels. Finally, the
FlexPoint card provides a exible
deployment strategy between
traditional asynchronous facilities and
SONET facilities. It terminates either as
an asynchronous DS-3 or a SONET
STS-1, based solely on the facility type
provisioned for the card.
The Universal I/O Bay supports 100%
reuse of all common equipment.
Equipment reuse provides commonality
for applications of both electrical and
optical shelves, minimizes sparing
investments, and enhances application
exibility.
The design of the Universal I/O Bay
ensures that it is easy to plan for
growth. The bays common equipment
accommodates all interface types. It
reduces training and operating costs
because no changes are required to the
shelves based on the interfaces housed
in the shelf. Its versatility enables a
whole new stream of revenue. Service
providers can install bays as they are
needed without forecasting specic
service types. Therefore, equipment
can be deployed on a risk-free basis
and adapt to service requirements as
they develop.
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Ensures Availability
To ensure the LMC is a strong and
reliable link in your network chain, we
equipped the LMC with stringent
protection ratios, distributed processor
architectures, and redundant cabling.
That is why the LMC is recognized for
having the fewest hardware-related
FCC reportable outages of any
distributed communications system.
Every card in the LMC operates under
the security of protection. The LMC
protects its optical I/O, processor,
matrix interface, and communication
cards on a 1+1 basis and its DS-3/STS-1
cards on a 1:8 basis. Also, since cards
are dependent on each other, cards are
protected on a group basis. This group
protection enables a shelf to continue
critical operations independently of the
central control system if necessary.
Although each shelf is subservient to
the central control system, it is not
reliant on the central control system.
For example, should a central control
failure occur, a shelf would be able to
continue to carry trafc, collect
performance-monitoring information,
and perform protection switching.
Provides Extensive Remote
Provisioning and Network
Monitoring Capabilities
In todays market, time is of the
essence. That is why the LMC has
embedded extensive OAM&P
(Operation, Administration,
Maintenance, and Provisioning)
capabilities. With remote provisioning
and performance monitoring, remote
software upgrades, and remote
database backup/restore, technicians
are no longer required to travel to a site
for upgrades and information retrieval.
These capabilities enable you to
remotely manage your network quickly
and efciently.
The LMCs remote provisioning
capabilities and facility summary
command saves time and money by
minimizing the time required to turn up
services. It is no longer necessary to
send a technician to a location to
manually turn up a service. The
technician can provision connections
and facilities remotely via RS-232, X.25
and 802.3 LAN interfaces. The facility
summary command allows users to
quickly determine system capacity.
We designed the LMCs network
monitoring capabilities with
convenience and cost savings in mind.
Service providers can monitor the
entire network from one centralized
location. Using the extended
superframe facility data link feature,
data on far-end performance can be
retrieved and reported. This feature
also measures the grade-of-service
provided by hi-cap services. The LMC
supports both ANSI TI.403 and AT&T
54016 far-end performance monitoring
standards and provides full-time
performance monitoring data on every
provisioned port and embedded signal
in the network.
The LMC provides considerable cost
savings because it eliminates the need
for stand-alone line monitoring units
and other equipment required for
facility service level or last mile signal
performance monitoring. All necessary
performance-monitoring capabilities
are embedded within the LMC. These
performance monitoring capabilities
act as a report card for all of your
connections. By troubleshooting
network performance in advance,
the LMC allows service providers to
resolve problems quickly and ensure
customer service level agreements are
met with condence.
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Equipment and Facility
Control
The LMCs FlashCut
TM
feature helps
service providers replace legacy or
unreliable equipment. Staff can cutover
circuits on a near-instantaneous basis
and make the cut around existing
equipment. With FlashCut, an entire
circuit cutover can be completed in less
than two seconds, regardless of the
number of ports involved. The cut
occurs so quickly, less than 50ms, the
network does not even register that an
event occurred. This is especially
important when circuit cutovers
involve critical trafc such as 911
emergency circuits.
FlashCut also increases the condence
in cutovers by allowing the new cabling
and connection maps to be tested
before trafc is switched over. And if
necessary, the cutover is easily reversed
to restore the original path. FlashCut is
a feature that proves the LMC provides
solutions for real-world situations.
The LMC adds value to facility planning
by allowing I/O bays to be located up to
500m from the matrix. Therefore, all
facility types can be optically remoted
from the matrix to this distance. This
unparalleled exibility allows
unfettered system growth even in the
most congested of ofces.
With its customers network alarm
functionality, the LMC can sectionalize
and isolate failures between the service
providers network and the customer
installation (CI) side of the network
interface - in real time. Therefore,
service providers are proactively
notied and can determine whether AIS
and RAI alarms are a result of the
customers equipment failing or a
failure within the providers network.
With ANSI T1.403-1999 standardized
signals (AIS-CI, RAI-CI), network
service providers can eliminate
unnecessary and expensive dispatches
and troubleshooting on customer
installation related problems.
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Summary
Managing network automation is easier
with Alcatels LMC Wideband Digital
Cross-connect. The LMC is an
innovative solution that boosts you
over the hurdles of network growth
while maintaining the quality on which
you rely. With innovative features like
seamless scalability, advanced
protection, exible Universal I/O Bay,
and unlimited OC-N ring support (i.e.
1120 OC-3 intergrated rings), the LMC
helps your network operate more
efciently and effectively. The LMC is
an innovative solution that provides
unparalleled reliability.
The LMC is backed by Alcatels long-
standing reputation and experience
with building end-to-end carrier class
solutions for use on land, undersea, and
across the globe. Call or visit us today
at 1-800-ALCATEL or 1-800-252-2835,
www.alcatel.com.
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