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3600 MainStreet
Multiservice Bandwidth Manager
Alcatel's 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager is a flexible,
scalable and intelligent networking node that combines the functions of an
integrated voice and data multiplexer, a frame relay and X.25 switch, a low
capacity ATM access node, an intelligent channel bank, and a digital
cross-connect switch. The 3600 MainStreet accommodates network evolution and
protects investment by providing customers a means of integrating narrowband
legacy services and broadband or IP-based networks.
The 3600 MainStreet is ideal for access networks that support multiple TDM
and packet/cell services including:
- Packet/Cell: ATM, frame relay, voice over frame relay (VoFR), X.25, and IP
(via NTU)
- TDM: leased line, legacy voice and data, and voice compression
Offering a wide range of advanced business services, the 3600 MainStreet is
the most successful digital overlay platform ever built, with over 160,000 nodes
installed worldwide, and growing.
It can be used:
- to concentrate circuit switched, packet and cell-based voice and data
traffic
- to offer leased line services from subrate to 2 Mb/s (n*64 kb/s)
- as an international gateway providing E1/T1, E3/T3 and ISDN interfaces
with signalling and super-rate conversion, line and circuit grooming and
voice compression
- as a low to medium capacity 3/0 and 1/0 DACS
- as an intelligent channel bank
Modular architecture
The 3600 MainStreet switching matrix is fully interconnected and non
blocking, and can be used as a standalone unit or scaled to sixteen peripheral
shelves. The flexible shelf configurations provide a wide range of interfaces
from ATM and packet to legacy voice and data services.
The modular architecture of the 3600 MainStreet platform allows you to expand
from a cost-effective single shelf system to a large multishelf system on an
as-needed basis (see Figure 2). The 3600 MainStreet is scalable to 256 E1/T1
switch capacity or 16/8 E3/T3, respectively.
The reliability of the 3600 MainStreet is guaranteed by many features
including redundancy of the power supplies, synchronization (on multishelf),
control and interfaces. The 3600 MainStreet has a field-proven availability in
excess of 99.999 percent. The switch supports a full spectrum of fault
management features including connectivity verification, alarm surveillance,
performance monitoring and test connections. Complete network performance
monitoring and fault management are supported by the Alcatel 5620 Network
Manager (NM), formerly the 46020 Network Manager.
In addition, the 3600 MainStreet supports standard synchronization sources
such as BITS, G.703 2,048 kb/s synchronization interfaces, line time
synchronization from interface cards, as well as line trunking.
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