Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 1692 Network Card User Manual


 
10 Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge
Summary
The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE is a cost-effective CWDM
system intend ed for the metropolitan access and enterprise
markets to help providers deliv er popular high-revenue,
bandwidth-intensive services, such as triple play, video,
3G mobile, SAN extension and enterprise GigE.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE is able to multiplex up to
16 channels com patible with ITU G.694.2 CWDM grid
in a single network element (NE). It can be configured
as a terminal or optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM)
providing optical layer protection capabilities for both
point-to-point and ring topologies. It can be equipped
with the traffic concentrator 4xAny (multiplexes up to
four low-speed client signals into a 2.5 Gb/s SONET/SDH
signal) or 2xGE-FC (multiplexes two GigE or FC signals
using the GFP-T standard), reducing the cost of each
client service and maximizing optical channel usage.