Lucent Technologies LambdaUnite User manual

Grow your network and make it more flexible.
Offers central office consolidation savings and
a graceful evolution to data services.
Benefits
• Cost-effectively addresses a variety of network applications
• Converges traditional circuit and advanced packet services
• Provides central office consolidation opportunities
• Readily integrates with your embedded infrastructure
• Meets the needs of your growing network
LambdaUnite®
MultiService Switch (MSS)

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Cost-effectively addresses a
variety of network applications
Lucent Technologies LambdaUnite®MultiService
Switch (MSS) is a next-generation multiservice optical
switch that supports a variety of applications including
ADM, terminal multiplexer, multi-ring hub, and
broadband cross-connect. This multi-functional
platform helps lower costs by reducing equipment,
floor space, and power requirements while improving
operational efficiency and network reliability. The
system supports both SDH and SONET at rates
including 10G and 40G, making it suitable for global
network deployments. Its common hardware,
software, and industry standards compliance helps
position you for rapid feature introduction and
increased revenue opportunities, for small to large
office applications, in backbone and metro networks.
In the metro network, the LambdaUnite®MSS system
serves as a metro hub terminal efficiently aggregating
multiple 2.5G and 10G rings to help eliminate stacked
ADMs. An optional passive WDM unit can be
integrated for fiber exhaust situations. In backbone
networks, efficient use of existing fiber is critical to
satisfying bandwidth demands. The LambdaUnite®
MSS efficiently aggregates and grooms traffic to help
maximize bandwidth utilization and lower per bit cost.
Its optional, fully-transparent OC-48/STM-16 interface
card can help carriers to cost-effectively address
wavelength service delivery via the existing
SONET/SDH network infrastructure.
When deployed with Lucent DWDM systems, you
can achieve significant equipment savings by using
express optics, since expensive OTUs on the DWDM
equipment are eliminated. The LambdaUnite®
MultiService Switch is well suited for transoceanic
applications. The transoceanic protocol mechanism
supported by the system helps to effectively protect
the groomed and consolidated traffic for your valuable
undersea fiber route.
Supports traditional circuit
and advanced data services
The LambdaUnite®MultiService Switch leverages your
existing investments in SONET/SDH networks to
support today’s traditional revenue generating services
while enabling new Ethernet services. Combining
SONET/SDH resilience and quality of service with the
flexibility and ubiquity of Ethernet helps this system to
deliver carrier grade Ethernet services in point to point
and multipoint configurations. Lucent Technologies
TransLAN®Card option contains efficient and flexible
bandwidth assignment capabilities, including virtual
concatenation and LCAS, enable voice and data
transport, and help avoid separate overlay networks
that are costly to build and manage.
Provides central office
consolidation opportunities
The LambdaUnite®MSS system performs as a metro
hub terminal efficiently aggregating multiple high-
capacity rings in your central office. This can result in
significant cost savings from the elimination of stacked
add/drop multiplexers at metro hubs. The system’s
centralized non-blocking switch is available in 160G,
320G and 640G switching capacity options in a single
shelf, to help reduce floor space and operations costs.
High fiber utilization is accomplished through granular
STS-1/VC-4 as well as VT-1.5/VC-12 grooming
capabilities, a wide range of service interfaces, and
advanced data transport capabilities. Occupying very
little floor space because of its high density, two
complete systems fit in one rack, providing up to
1.2Tbps per bay.
Two complete LambdaUnite®MSS systems, with a
capacity of 640G, fit into one rack.

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Readily integrates with
your embedded infrastructure
The LambdaUnite®MSS is a global, standard compliant
product that leverages traditional SDH and SONET
networks. Extensive multi-vendor interworking
capabilities enable quick deployments while leveraging
your existing investment. Sharing a common
management system with other Lucent optical
products, facilitates support staff knowledge across
multiple platforms. Navis®Optical Management
Solution integrated management helps support a wide
range of applications and services to keep your network
running cost-effectively. Designed with scalability and
ease of maintenance in mind, LambdaUnite®MSS can
help you affordably meet the market’s growing demand
for bandwidth.
The system supports a variety of industry standard
protection schemes including:
• MS-Spring/BLSR
• SNCP/UPSR
• Transoceanic Protocol
• DNI/DRI
• 1+1 MSP/linear APS
• Mesh based restoration
Flexibility for your network: the LambdaUnite®MultiService Switch supports various types of traffic and protection
schemes — all in one network element.
Meets the needs of your growing network
The LambdaUnite®MSS offers a full set of interface
rates, reaches, and colored optics to help provide your
network with greater flexibility and efficiency. By
supporting both rings and mesh simultaneously, it
allows you to evolve network architectures when
you’re ready. The system architecture is based on a full
non-blocking duplicated switch matrix. Each of the
32 I/O slots can be filled with a variety of cards
ranging from 45Mbps up to 40Gbps thus enabling a
wide range of configurations. Each optical circuit pack,
supports expansion port modules that may be inserted
and provisioned in-service. This means you only pay
for the port capacity you need, when you need it. The
LambdaUnite®MultiService Switch offers dedicated
data interfaces such as Gigabit Ethernet (SX and LX)
and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (WAN PHI). From small to large
offices, this highly flexible architecture enables you to
configure the system to meet your needs.
Designed to interwork with a variety of standard-
compliant SONET/SDH products, LambdaUnite®
MultiService Switch can be a part of your complete
solution. It offers seamless, end-to-end network
management, and reduces the need for manual
intervention while managing your network. This
next-generation multiservice optical switch offers you
a complete central office solution in a single platform.

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Summary of features and benefits
Flexibility, Scalability and Capacity
• Innovative highly flexible any-card-in-any-slot architecture
• Expansion port modules that may be inserted and provisioned in-service
• Ultra-compact high capacity shelf
• Centralized non-blocking switch, including 160G, 320G and 640G
capacity options
• 15G low order grooming capabilities
• In-service capacity upgrade
• Bandwidth optimized sub-lambda grooming
Cost-effective multiservice support
• Global product design
• Interface range from DS-3 to OC-768/STM-256
• OLS direct and passive DWDM optics
• Full interoperability with the Lucent SONET/SDH product portfolio
High availability—ring, mesh, hybrid topologies
• Simultaneous support of ring and mesh network topologies
• Multiple class of service (CoS) levels
Seamless integration into the Navis®Optical Management Solution
• End-to-end point and click provisioning over the Lucent portfolio