Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 1692 Network Card User Manual


 
9Alcatel-Lucent 1692 Metrospan Edge
The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE provides a single, cost-optimized, managed solution
that supports different services, network topologies and traffic matrices, and is trans -
parent to protocols. It supports a mix of services with multi-rate tributaries and
pluggable optical interfaces, on both the client and WDM sides. Optical services
range from 125 Mb/s to 2.67 Gb/s. Compatible with 10 Gb/s services, the Alcatel-
Lucent 1692 MSE easily interfaces with all types of fiber and transmission
equipment, providing high flexibility through interfaces that are transparent
to the transmitted protocols.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE is a robust platform offering signal restoration and
protection. Alcatel-Lucent believes that signal protection is necessary in all optical
transport systems, including applications in private networks and small core networks.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1692 MSE provides optical layer protection such as OMSP
and OCH-SNCP, which includes a 50 millisecond network recovery. For maintenance
purposes, it offers an integrated 8x8 switch on each transponder that enables electri -
cal protection and loopback operations on both the client side and the WDM side.
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