The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SONET Link is a powerful, high-density optical bandwidth management platform that incorporates next-generation SONET features and high bandwidth optical networking capabilities. The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SONET Link lowers cost of ownership by consolidating multiple network functions including SONET add/drop multiplexers (ADMs), digital cross-connects (DCS) and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) terminals into a single, compact platform.

The Alcatel-Lucent 1677 SONET Link is a carrier-class system that supports full redundancy and interfaces from DS3 to OC-192 and Gigabit Ethernet, providing carriers with a broad range of service offerings.

Benefits:

• Provides unprecedented flexibility and scalability, while reducing capital equipment and operations costs
• Enables carriers to cost-effectively deliver high-bandwidth services
• Provides unprecedented density in an STS-1 granularity grooming bandwidth manager
• Allows for future growth and investment protection
• Enables rapid provisioning of Gigabit Ethernet and other future services under SONET protection

Features:

• Carrier-class optical bandwidth management platform that combines a scalable STS-1-nc cross-connect, SONET ADM and DWDM terminal
• Wide range of interfaces supporting existing SONET and future services
• Large scale grooming in a small space (320 Gb/s per shelf)
• Extreme scalability from 1 to 4 terabits per rack
• Virtual concatenation for efficient and cost effective service transport