Lucent Technologies PacketStar PSAX - Manual (Page 3)

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Minimize capital expenditures
and reduce operating costs
With the PacketStar ® PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio’s scalable architecture, you need only one
platform to deploy many services. Each product in the
portfolio meets specific customer needs in various
deployment scenarios, so whether driven by footprint,
line density, speed or cost, you can find the best fit for
your application. Since all chassis share a common,
scalable architecture, you can use the same system and
management software, minimizing administrative and
provisioning knowledge. And, since the modules are
inter-changeable between chassis, you can redeploy a
module in any other PacketStar
® PSAX media gateway
model where and when your network needs change,
reducing not only provisioning, but also sparing, training
and inventory costs. PSAX can perform out of service
maintenance tests to qualify a line before assigning
customer traffic, lowering the need for expensive truck
rolls and the time to turn up a new line.
Protect existing investment
and ensure easy migration
The PacketStar ® PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio’s wide variety of interfaces and features help
to ensure compatibility with existing equipment, while
providing the service richness of today’s leading edge
protocols. You can use the same high-density
multimission platform to migrate to next generation
networks while maintaining legacy services. Enabled
through the tunnelling of private topology over ATM
networks
1 , PSAX allows protocols to be carried
transparently, creating greater versatility at the edge
and reducing the need for upgrades to existing
equipment assets. Whether your future plans include
the next generation of wireless or new broadband
multimedia applications you can help to avoid
obsolescence and expensive forklift upgrades. For
increasing customer bandwidth allocations, PSAX can
modify traffic management parameters on active
connections so services are not disrupted. The
PacketStar
® PSAX media gateways support more than
40 interface modules that are interchangeable across
the product portfolio. System software is also
consistent across all platforms, eliminating branching
and compatibility problems. To help drive down the
expense of meeting customer demands, you can
upgrade modules simply by downloading new
software and firmware drivers.
Maximize switching capacity,
availability and resiliency
The PacketStar ® PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio builds the latest ATM technology into its
system architecture for maximum switching capacity
with high availability and resiliency. Robust, high-
performance backplane designs offer several layers of
protection for system resources. PacketStar
® PSAX
Multiservice Media Gateways offer 1+ 1 system
protection on optical modules. The PSAX 1000 offers
1:1 protection and the PSAX 4500 offers N:1
protection at the DS3/E3 level. All models offer a
non-service affecting upgrade feature. Further
system resilience is ensured by optional redundancy
for common equipment (power supplies, Stratum 3-4
timing modules, and CPU modules).
Add value, reduce costs with
centrally managed options
The PacketStar ® PSAX Multiservice Media Gateway
portfolio supports a range of centralized network
management options that add essential oversight and
control while reducing the high cost of maintaining
and managing the network. At the element level, you
can manage the PacketStar
® PSAX media gateways
using Navis ® EMS-PSAX Element Manager, a Java-
based Graphical User Interface. Navis ® EMS-PSAX
element manager enables comprehensive, real-time,
centralized management, including configuring and
upgrading the system, as well as fault and
performance monitoring.
For carrier-class end-to-end network management, the
PacketStar
® PSAX media gateway portfolio can be
integrated into numerous third party network
management solutions as well as with Navis
®
iOperations software including:
• rapid flow–through provisioning across
multitechnology and multivendor environments
with Navis
® Provisioning Manager
• performance, fault and service management with
Navis ® Fault Manager and Navis ® Extend Statistics
Server
• service-level reporting with VitalSuite ® Performance
Monitoring Software
• overall server management and maintenance of user
accounts.
1 Public ATM networks or ATM networks that do not run
PNNI over a MPLS core.