Alcatel-Lucent 1353 - Manual (Page 9)

Alcatel-Lucent 1353 Litespan Management System (LMS) 9
Multivendor compatibility
The Alcatel-Lucent 1540 Litespan and Alcatel-Lucent 1353 LMS are designed to function well
in multivendor environments. This open design lets you build competitive, customized solutions
compatible with your existing investments and customers’ needs. The integrated and centralized
Alcatel-Lucent 1353 LMS also ensures changes can be made very quickly, significantly shortening
time-to-revenue.
All sizes of networks
The Alcatel-Lucent Litespan family is highly scalable and suitable for any access network size —
from a few nodes to hundreds. With its flexible architecture, you can run the Alcatel-Lucent 1353
LMS on a PC, upgrade to a small UNIX workstation, and add new servers or workstations to
evolve with the growth of the Alcatel-Lucent 1540 Litespan network (see Figure 4).
Ease of integration and high scalability
Figure 4. A Network management system platform for any network size
1353 LMS
Initial network
size
1353 LMS
Growing
network
PC platform
UNIX server
Easy migration to a server platform
minimizes operational impact as the network grows