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Architecture

The information provided in this section is intended to

provide a functional overview of each product. At the end of

this section, you will find a table summarizing the applications

supported and interfaces available for each product in the

Alcatel MainStreet business access portfolio.

Multiservice Access Platforms (MAPs) 

Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice 

Bandwidth Manager

The Alcatel 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 Alcatel 3600

MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager accommodates

network evolution and protects investment by enabling

customers to integrate narrowband legacy services and

broadband or IP-based networks.

The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager

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

>

TDM: leased lines, voice, data, and voice compression

Offering a wide range of advanced business services, the

Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager 

is the most successful digital overlay platform ever built, 

with over 180,000 nodes installed worldwide, and growing. 

The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager

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 signaling and superate conversion,

line and circuit grooming and voice compression 

>

As a low- to medium-capacity 3/0 and 1/0 digital access 

and cross-connect system (DACS) 

>

As an intelligent channel bank

Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice 

Bandwidth Manager

The Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice

Bandwidth Manager builds on the highly

successful architecture of the Alcatel 3600

MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth

Manager. It provides a scalable option to

meet the increasing demand for multiple

services and higher bandwidth on a single

platform. In addition to offering all of the

capabilities of the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet

Multiservice Bandwidth Manager, the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet

Multiservice Bandwidth Manager offers fiber optic and

electrical interfaces at STM-1/OC-3 speeds. It supports a wide

range of circuit- and packet-based voice and data services,

and is fully compatible with the Alcatel 3600 MainStreet

Multiservice Bandwidth Manager, providing seamless integra-

tion into existing networks and protecting equipment investment.

The Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth

Manager is ideal for access networks that support multiple

services, including packet and TDM with the requirement 

for connection to higher speed fiber optic backbones and

metropolitan area networks/wide area networks (MANs/WANs).

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The Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth

Manager supports a diverse set of access technologies

including: 

>

Packet/cell: ATM, frame relay, voice over frame relay

(VoFR), X.25

>

TDM: leased lines, voice, data, and voice compression

>

Synchronous optical network /synchronous digital

hierarchy (SONET/SDH): linear interface (STM-1/OC-3), 

1+1 interface (STM-1/OC-3), unidirectional path switched

ring (UPSR) ring mode (STM-1/OC-3)

Alcatel 3600/Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet 

Multiservice Bandwidth Manager Enhancements

MainStreet Frame Relay 

The Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager

and the Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth

Manager platforms offer extensive frame relay services. With

the simple and cost-effective addition of a frame relay engine

(FRE), packet engine (PE) or frame relay switch with Subrate

Interface Module (FRS/SRIM) card, an Alcatel 3600/Alcatel

3600+ MainStreet node provides comprehensive frame relay

switching capabilities. 

MainStreet Frame Relay is a proven service used extensively

in public and enterprise networks throughout the world. It 

can be used effectively in large or small networks that deploy

frame relay alone, or in combination with leased line, X.25 

and ATM services. Based on a modular architecture, up to 

64 FRE and/or PE cards can be connected across the 100 Mb/s

FASTbus to create a high capacity node that is capable of

switching 120,000 fps.

MainStreet Frame Relay services include X.25/frame

relay/ATM network and service interworking capabilities,

subrate frame relay switching, and value-added service

capabilities, such as VoFR with QoS, packet fragmentation

and reassembly, and DLCI multiplexing. 

An Alcatel 3600 MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager

or Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Manager

system that includes frame relay seamlessly interworks with

the Alcatel 7470 MSP and the Alcatel 7670 RSP to provide 

an end-to-end frame relay solution — from the customer

premises to the network core. These platforms are fully

managed by the Alcatel 5620 NM allowing service providers 

to manage the multiservice environment from a single

platform and console. New facilities can be added in seconds,

rather than weeks, as more subscribers request service.

MainStreet ATM Service

The MainStreet ATM Service cards provide ATM service

adaptation and inverse multiplexing over ATM (IMA) for the

Alcatel 3600/Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth

Managers. Installed in any universal card slot (UCS), the ATM

Service cards adapt the rich variety of Alcatel 3600/Alcatel

3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Managers supported

services to ATM cells for transmission over an ATM network.

The ATM Service cards support AAL1 and AAL5 adaptation.

The circuit emulation service (CES) adapts constant bit rate

(CBR) traffic (n*64 kb/s) to AAL1 virtual circuits (VCs). The

HDLC service adapts HDLC-formatted traffic into AAL5 VCs.

The card has four E1 or T1 interfaces (physical ports). Each

port provides a user network interface (UNI) to an ATM net-

work and can function as an independent network link, or can

be assigned to a logical IMA port for combined transmission.

Extending broadband ATM benefits to the Alcatel 3600/Alcatel

3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Managers, the ATM

Services Card allows corporate networks to exploit rate

differentials that favor ATM. The card's IMA capability is also

a tremendous benefit where WAN connectivity requirements

exceed E1/T1 capacity. The ATM Service card is optimized to

support a single ATM aggregate comprised of one to four

inverse multiplexed E1/T1 links. 

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Installing the ATM Services Card in Alcatel 3600/Alcatel 

3600+ MainStreet Multiservice Bandwidth Managers increases

network efficiencies, as operators manage only one logical

“pipe” ranging from 1.5 Mb/s to 8 Mb/s, instead of parallel,

discrete E1/T1 links. 

By using the Alcatel 3600/Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet

Multiservice Bandwidth Managers as close to the customer

location as possible to adapt established and proven services

to broadband, service providers are able to increase access 

to their ATM core infrastructures. The n* E1/T1 aggregate

accommodates an infinite mixture of traffic types, and the

ATM quality of service parameters ensure each traffic type 

is given and achieves the required service level.

MainStreet X.25 Service 

The Alcatel MainStreet X.25 Service is a high-performance,

feature-rich, standards-compliant X.25 product that is suitable

for public switched data, large service providers, and

corporate data networks. The system architecture enables

advanced protocol encapsulation and conversion features.

These include X.25/FR/ATM network and service inter-

working, all of which are supported on a single platform.

Alcatel MainStreet X.25 Service offers the following 

key benefits:

>

Flexibility – the most flexible X.25 product available,

offering seamless interworking with all other standards-

based X.25 products and networks

>

Versatility – supports X.25 and frame relay services

simultaneously and interchangeably on the same card; 

ports can be reconfigured through software as service

needs change

>

Simplicity – unsurpassed installation, operation, using 

full graphical user interface (GUI)-based network

management and software-driven configuration

>

Scalability – each service — X.25, frame relay, TDM,

integrated services digital network (ISDN), and ATM — 

can be individually introduced and scaled to cost-effectively

meet the requirements of many network applications,

reducing initial investment risk while maintaining linear

cost per port as application demands increase

>

Reduced Costs – significant cost savings can be achieved

through consolidation of X.25 and other services on an

integrated and fully managed MainStreet network

Alcatel 36110 MainStreet Multiprotocol Concentrator

and Alcatel 36111 MainStreet High Capacity

Multiprotocol Concentrator

The Alcatel 36110 MainStreet

Multiprotocol Concentrator

(MPC) offers a compre-

hensive suite of features 

that allow you to merge the user environment — synchronous

and asynchronous terminals, system network architectures

(SNAs), and local area networks (LANs) — with available high

speed WAN communications services. The Alcatel 36111 High

Capacity Multiprotocol Concentrator (HMPC) allows you to

maintain current legacy applications, while taking advantage of

high capacity network backbones. Both products support a

wide range of protocols, including PAD, X.25 and SNA on the

user side, and X.25 and frame relay in wide area networks (WANs). 

Available in four chassis sizes (Alcatel MainStreet 36110 MPC:

up to 8 and 20 ports, and Alcatel MainStreet 36111 HMPC: up

to 24 and 80 ports), they are fully modular, providing flexible,

secure access to your MainStreet network, and enabling you

to take advantage of the availability of high speed connections

offered by today’s telecommunications operators.

The Alcatel 36110 MainStreet MPC and Alcatel 36111 HMPC

also offer advanced routing, including IP and IPX, and ISDN

adaptation. They are managed by the Alcatel 5620 NM,

providing a common platform and interface for network 

and service management. 

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Integrated Access Devices (IADs)

Alcatel 3624 MainStreet Intelligent T1 Channel Bank 

The Alcatel 3624 MainStreet

Intelligent T1 Channel Bank

(ICB) is a compact,

sophisticated network access

product that provides a cost-effective method of connecting

voice and data devices such as telephones, private branch

exchanges (PBXs), routers, bridges, personal computers 

and servers into a multiservice network.

The Alcatel 3624 MainStreet ICB supports any combination of:

>

Voice

>

Analog data from 2-wire and 4-wire modems

>

Digital data

The Alcatel 3624 MainStreet ICB carries voice and data

circuits over T1 transmission lines. It is ideal for customer

premise T1 applications, in either point-to-point configuration

or for access to public networks. 

Seamless network management is provided through the

Alcatel family of network management products. With its

flexible interfaces, the Alcatel 3624 MainStreet ICB can mix

voice and data traffic from virtually any combination of analog

or digital devices onto a single T1 aggregate link. 

The versatile Alcatel 3624 MainStreet ICB offers many

applications, including:

>

Voice, data, and integrated voice and data networking

>

Point-to-network, point-to-point and feeder applications

>

Fractional T1 applications

>

Superate operation, providing connectivity for video

conferencing, interconnecting LANs over the WAN, 

and Internet access

>

Dataphone Digital Service (DDS) and Switched 56 network

access

>

Automatic and manual ringdown, including private line

automatic ringdown (PLAR) to Foreign Exchange Office

(FXO) service conversion

>

Direct inward dialing (DID) access

>

2-wire and 4-wire analog data transmissions by modem

Alcatel 3630 MainStreet Primary Rate Multiplexer 

The Alcatel 3630 MainStreet

Primary Rate Multiplexer (PRM)

serves as a customer premises

gateway to multiservice

networks for a wide range of equipment. The Alcatel 3630

MainStreet PRM is a high-performance, compact, intelligent

T1 (1.544 Mb/s) or E1 (2.048 Mb/s) multiplexer, terminating 

up to 30 voice or data circuits. 

It digitizes analog transmissions and integrates voice and data

circuits for transmission on a primary rate link. The HDSL

module enables E1 transmission rate over the local copper

loop without the need for repeaters or generators. The manual

ring down (MRD) module (North America) or GEN-GEN

module (Europe) supports voice interfaces that are typically

used by financial institutions for dealer room communication

applications. 

The Alcatel 3630 MainStreet PRM can be equipped with two

T1 interfaces or two E1 interfaces. The second interface can

be configured to provide protection switching and drop-and-

insert capabilities. It supports the Alcatel 275x MainStreet

IDSL DTUs, which allow for connections to multiple data

devices up to 5.5 km away. The DTUs connect to the Alcatel

3630 MainStreet PRM over a single copper pair, thereby

extending the reach of the Alcatel 3630 MainStreet PRM 

for distribution of services.

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The Alcatel 3630 MainStreet PRM offers many applications,

including:

>

Voice, data, and integrated voice and data networking

>

Point-to-point and drop/insert applications

>

Superrate operation, providing connectivity for video

conferencing, interconnecting LANs over the WAN

>

Leased bandwidth delivery in the local loop

Alcatel 3612 MainStreet Narrowband Multiplexer 

Designed to maximize bandwidth

efficiency, the Alcatel 3612

MainStreet Narrowband

Multiplexer (NBM) reduces

networking costs while delivering high-performance services

that are required for today’s business applications. It manages

expensive access link bandwidth through the use of voice

compression, which provides high quality at very low bit rates,

as well as frame relay switching and encapsulation. It also

offers subrate multiplexing features to further improve

bandwidth utilization. 

The system can support various combinations of voice and

high/low speed data, including connections from LAN routers

and up to 24 analog or digital connections. Maximum

bandwidth efficiency is realized with dynamic bandwidth

allocation by sharing bandwidth on demand between voice,

fax and data.

Alcatel 3612 MainStreet NBM highlights:

>

Bandwidth savings through efficient multiplexing of voice,

fax and data over leased line, frame relay and ISDN services

from remote locations

>

Highly flexible access feeder to multiservice networks

>

Central hub for smaller star networks or point-to-point

applications

>

Combination of LAN, legacy data (Async, X.25, SNA, etc.)

and voice over frame relay (VoFR) enables substantial

bandwidth savings and performance improvements across

the WAN

>

Use of sophisticated low bit rate voice compression

techniques delivers high-quality voice (and fax)

communications while minimizing use of costly bandwidth

>

Encapsulation into frame relay of PBX CCS signaling

protocols provides significant bandwidth savings and

provides PBX feature transparency

>

Automatic aggregate protection of leased lines over the

switched ISDN network negates the need for expensive,

and often idle, alternate bandwidth for rerouting. 

>

Flexible ISDN features allow provision of temporary

switched connections for disaster recovery applications

Network Termination Units (NTUs)

Alcatel 2902 MainStreet Network Termination Unit 

The Alcatel 2902 MainStreet

Network Termination Unit

(NTU) delivers managed

bandwidth access of up to 2 Mb/s over existing copper pairs

(HDSL) or E1 facilities. Within a single unit, service providers

can deliver integrated data and digital voice access with a 

high degree of flexibility and reliability, while making use of

existing network infrastructure.

The Alcatel 2902 MainStreet NTU can be configured to deliver

n*64 kb/s to 2 Mb/s voice and data services over two regular

twisted copper pairs up to 5 kilometers (3.1 miles), without

requiring repeaters. 

The Alcatel 2902 MainStreet NTU allows service providers 

to multiplex data, router and LAN hub traffic into a single,

versatile gateway. It provides a flexible, cost-effective way 

to integrate digital voice and data traffic from a business site

onto a high speed E1 digital link for customer access to public

or private networks, or for point-to-point operation.

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Alcatel 2801 MainStreet HDSL Data Termination Unit  

The Alcatel 2801 MainStreet

HDSL Data Termination Unit

(DTU) is an industry-leading

access product that is ideal for

providing high speed services from a central site to remote

locations. This product offers secure, high-reliability service

over private or leased lines, making it the choice of many

carriers and enterprise customers worldwide.

The Alcatel 2801 MainStreet HDSL DTU provides a simple 

and economical vehicle to deliver data services at speeds of

up to 1 Mb/s over a single pair, or up to 2 Mb/s over two pairs

of unconditioned copper wires. Alcatel 2801 MainStreet HDSL

DTU provides numerous advantages, including increased

speed, increased distance without the need for repeaters, 

and improved reliability. It is unaffected by bridge taps and

changes in wire gauge. It is fully managed by the industry

leading Alcatel 5620 NM.

The Alcatel 2801 MainStreet HDSL DTU is excellent for

applications such as high speed LAN interconnection, 

high speed extranet and intranet connections, and server

connections for web hosting. 

Alcatel 275x MainStreet IDSL DTUs

The Alcatel 275x MainStreet IDSL

DTUs are used in many applica-

tions that require secure, highly

reliable, low speed data such as

automatic banking machines,

lottery terminals, low speed router traffic, and alarm

monitoring applications. The Alcatel 275x MainStreet IDSL

DTUs are ideal products for extracting maximum performance

from existing installed copper facilities. 

Alcatel 275x MainStreet IDSL DTUs offer an attractive

solution for providing services of up to 128 kb/s to remote

sites. They are ideal for providing services from a central site

to remote locations over existing twisted pair copper lines.

These products also provide secure, high reliability service

over private or leased lines with the added reliability of

redundancy for mission-critical applications. 

These products are fully managed by the Alcatel 5620 NM,

enabling easy end-to-end path provisioning. 

Three types of Alcatel 275x MainStreet IDSL DTUs are

available:

>

Alcatel 2751 MainStreet DTU with TIA/EIA-232 user ports

>

Alcatel 2752 MainStreet DTU with X.21 user ports 

>

Alcatel 2753 MainStreet DTU with V.35 user ports

All three Alcatel 275x MainStreet IDSL DTUs share a common

network port and can be mixed and matched on the same 6-

and 12-port line cards. Subrate (<64 kb/s) data is supported

and can be multiplexed onto the same DS0. This multiplexing

of data allows for efficient utilization of bandwidth and real

cost savings. Both the 6- and 12-port line cards can be

installed in the Alcatel 3600/Alcatel 3600+ MainStreet

Multiservice Bandwidth Managers. 

Alcatel 2704 MainStreet V.110 DTU 

The Alcatel 2704 MainStreet

V.110 DTU is focused specifically

at end user applications requiring

V.110 rate adaptation. It supports a maximum loop of 7.2 km

(4.5 mi.) and offers maximum data port speed of 64 kb/s, and

port density of six circuits per slot. 

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Product category

MAP

IAD

NTU

Products

3600 3600+ 36110 36111 3624

3630

3612

2902

2801

275x

2704

G O V E R N M E N T   A P P L I C A T I O N S

Regional government

Lottery 

Education networks

Integrated communications solutions

Multiservice consolidation

F I N A N C I A L   A P P L I C A T I O N S

Financial dealer boards

X.25 

Leased line/private line

Branch office networking

Voice and data convergence

U T I L I T I E S   A P P L I C A T I O N S

Regional government variation

Metro optical

Surveillance and telemetry

Linear add/drop networks

S E R V I C E   P R O V I D E R   A P P L I C A T I O N S

Private line

Metro optical

Consolidated X.25 networking

Mobile aggregation, billing and backbone networks

Enterprise access services

Voice and data convergence over frame relay

Flexible SME/MTU access distribution and aggregation

Leased line

SS7 signaling transport

Add/drop multiplexing

Digital access and cross-connect (DACS)

Business-class xDSL access

ATM access

Frame relay switching

Cellular base station aggregation and grooming

Billing (CDR) and OAM message transport

Voice and data convergence

Voice compression

Managed data services

Legacy protocol concentration

Data network consolidation

G E N E R A L   ( M A X I M U M )

# of universal card slots 

128

16

# of E1 ports

256

128

2

# of T1 ports

256

128

1

2

# of E3 ports

16

# of T3 ports

8

3

# of circuits

24

30

24

Maximum speed

2048 2048 128

128 

Mb/s Mb/s kb/s

kb/s

A G G R E G A T E   I N T E R F A C E S

1.544 Mb/s T1 (D4, ESF, 64 kb/s chan.)

DS3 

E3

2.048 Mb/s E1 (CAS, CCS, 64 kb/s chan.)

X.21 PRI

V.35 PRI

E1 HDSL

S/T BRI

U BRI

X.21

V.35

Optical extension E1

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Product category

MAP

IAD

NTU

Products

3600 3600+ 36110 36111 3624

3630

3612

2902

2801

275x

2704

V O I C E   I N T E R F A C E S

T1 (D4 and ESF formats)

E1 CAS and CCS, R2D (E&M)

E&M

4WTO

2WTO

FXS (LGS)

FXO (LGE)

MRD

U BRI

GEN-GEN

D A T A   I N T E R F A C E S

RS422

T1A/E1 A-232

E1 G.703

Ethernet 10Base-T

2B1Q (for NTU connections)

OCU-DP

DSO-DP

X.21

V.35

Frame relay

V.24, V.28, T1A/E1A-232-C

X.21/V.11

S O N E T / S D H

SONET OC-3

SDH STM-1

D S P   A P P L I C A T I O N S

Voice compression

8 and 16 kb/s HCV compression

8 kb/s A-CELP (ITU-T Rec. G.729)

16 kb/s LD-CELP (ITU-T Rec. G.728)

ADPCM (ITU-T Rec. G.721) 32 kb/s

G3 fax support V.17) over compressed voice (14.4 kb/s max.)

Modem (v.32 bis) tones support over compressed (CELP) voice (14.4 kb/s)

Subrate multiplexing 

Switching of compressed voice and data

Echo cancellation (26 ms, G.165)

Voice conference bridging

Mu/A-law companding conversion

Multidrop PCM data bridging

1.460 (n*8 kb/s transparent) multiplexing

High capacity multiplexing (HCM)

DDS and X.50 rate adaptation

P A C K E T   S E R V I C E S

Frame relay switching

Frame relay access device

Subrate frame relay (DDS, X.50, HCM)

Transparent HDLC encapsulation

Voice over frame relay (FRF.11)

QoS (X.146)

Frame relay fragmentation (FRF.12)

DLCI multiplexing (FRF.11)

Frame relay/ATM network interworking (FRF.5)

Frame relay/ATM service interworking (FRF.8)

AAL1 and AAL5 adaptation

Inverse muxing over ATM (IMA)

X.25/FR network/service interworking

X.25 SVC and PVC

X.75 and X.75’

Asynchronous PAD (X.3, X.28, X.29)

Legacy protocols (SNA, SDLC/QLLC, BSC)

PSTN switched access (X.32 and V.25bis)

Centralized protocol tracing

 


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