The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS solves a key problem facing service providers: how to migrate from predominantly SONET/SDH transport networks to transport that is optimized for packet traffic. The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS product family answers this call by providing platforms that support rich-featured Ethernet/packet and SONET/SDH services and transport with integrated WDM/ROADM. The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS is a pioneering family of products in an emerging segment, Packet Optical Transport, aimed at giving service providers a powerful tool for seamless transport-network transformation.

With the Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS, service providers can exert maximum leverage from existing SONET/SDH networks and concurrently deploy robust packet transport with rich-featured Ethernet using the same platforms. In this manner, service providers can offer a complete array of TDM and packet services regardless of the underlying transport, migrating toward pure packet transport seamlessly as packet traffic becomes more dominant.

The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS product family addresses this network- and service-transition challenge with models that range from the metro and regional core to the customer premises equipment (CPE). At each level of the network hierarchy, the Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS provides the features and capacity to deliver a mix of TDM and Ethernet service, leveraging both SONET/SDH and Ethernet transport.

Benefits:

• Empowers service providers to deliver a flexible mix of broadband services
• Significant OPEX reductions stem from simplified network operation.
• Lowers the risk of CAPEX investments that may vary over time with changes in service demand
• Shortens time-to-revenue for new broadband services

Features:

• Open platform with universal switch that supports any mix of traffic from 100 percent circuit to 100 percent  packet gives total freedom in planning network resources for future-ready scalable networks
• Unique technology-independent (universal) switch is capable of switching and transporting packets or circuits in their native format
• Carrier Ethernet/transport MPLS switching technologies support transport QoS levels and enable seamless interworking with existing assets
• Any mix of Ethernet, TDM, WDM OTH and future transport technologies can be supported with only a simple change of the interface cards, eliminating the need for future switch investments as new services or protocols emerge