The Alcatel-Lucent 9500 Microwave Packet Radio (MPR) allows smoothly transforming backhaul networks from TDM to IP and provides efficient transport of multimedia traffic while still supporting legacy TDM. It improves packet aggregation, increases bandwidth, enhances Ethernet connectivity and delivers the Quality of Service (QoS) end users require. With the Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR, networks can efficiently manage rapid growth in multimedia traffic because packets are handled natively and transmission is adapted to the propagation conditions and quality required by different types of services.

The Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR represents the new generation of Alcatel-Lucent microwave radio technology that aims to revolutionize the market, improving network transport while diminishing costs.

Benefits:

• Provides a completely new way for microwave radio to handle IP traffic in its native form; this is a hybrid system that provides two transport modes, packet transport and TDM transport, using the same platform (indoor and outdoor units)
• Offers compatibility with the legacy Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) and SDH technologies and works in multivendor environments, protecting service-provider investments
• The service-awareness feature allows different end-user-services data flows to be treated according to their QoS requirements, a treatment unavailable with TDM products
• The 9500 MPR-e delivers a last-mile, zero-footprint solution for pure Ethernet base stations
• Provides an end-to-end Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) solution when the Alcatel-Lucent 7700 Service Router (SR) family is used as a gateway
• Provides an end-to-end packet-transport solution when deployed in conjunction with the Alcatel-Lucent 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS) in the fiber metro

Features:

• Service-driven adaptive packet modulation
• E1 in packet by pseudowire/circuit emulation services (CES)
• ATM pseudowire
• Service awareness
• Synchronization distribution
• Single packet matrix with high switching capacity above 16 Gb/s
• Radio capacity up to 4 Gb/s per radio channel
• Multiservice packet ring
• XPIC configurations
• LAG support
• SDH transport