Page 3 - Customer Requirements; An Entirely Optical Network
3 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge Customer Requirements Today’s competitive environment places taxingdemands on service providers, forcing them todrive down costs and reduce the complexity of their networks and operations. Bandwidth-intensive services such as triple play, video, 3Gmobile, SAN ext...
Page 4 - A Cost-optimized System
4 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge A Cost-optimized System The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE is acost-optimized coarse WDM (CWDM)transport system designed to meet therequirements of enterprise and metroaccess networks. This means that theservice provider or enterprise can startwith (and pay for) only th...
Page 5 - Benefits and Features; Key Features
5 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge Benefits and Features B E N E F I T F E A T U R E F U N C T I O N Low real estate and power requirements Class-leading compact size, minimal electrical Three rack unit physical shelf size; optical power requirements and minimal heat generation components require ...
Page 6 - Technical Superiority
6 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE sup -ports up to 16 wavelengths sustain ingvariable-rate and fixed-rate opticalinterfaces, capable of accepting abroad range of data rates. DedicatedTDM concentrators (4xAny card and2xGE-FC card) are available to opti -mize transportat...
Page 7 - Ultimate Scalability and Versatility
7 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge Fully scalable from two wavelengthsup to 16, the Alcatel-Lucent 1692MSE allows service providers topurchase only the capacity requiredand then to increase capacity only as consumer demand increases. Thatis, as requirements change over time,the system’s manageabil...
Page 8 - Multiple Topologies and Configurations
8 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE sup -ports point-to-point links and ringnetworks with coarse optical add/dropmultiplexer (COADM) technology.The terminal can support up to16 wavelengths of unidi rectionaltransmission or 4 wave lengths of one fiber bidirectional transm...
Page 9 - Simplified Provisioning, Guaranteed Reliability
9 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE provides a single, cost-optimized, managed solutionthat supports different services, network topologies and traffic matrices, and is trans -parent to protocols. It supports a mix of services with multi-rate tributaries andpluggable opt...
Page 10 - Summary
10 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge Summary The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE is a cost-effective CWDMsystem intend ed for the metropolitan access and enterprisemarkets to help providers deliv er popular high-revenue,bandwidth-intensive services, such as triple play, video,3G mobile, SAN extension and e...