Nortel Networks 7400 - Manual (Page 26)

OPTera Metro 1000 Ethernet Service Module 17
OPTera Metro 1000 Ethernet
Service Module
Overview
Service providers, seeking to extend their networks to the customer premises and to deliver differentiated
Ethernet-based services cost-effectively to multiple customers, can leverage a new class of Optical Ethernet
edge device - the OPTera Metro 1000 series of Ethernet Service Modules. The OPTera Metro 1000 series
consists of three different platforms to meet Ethernet service delivery scenarios, i.e. multi-tenant service
delivery providing Ethernet services on tenant floors, single unit/enterprise service delivery or delivery of
services from a service provider point of presence:
• OPTera Metro 1200 Ethernet Service Module
• OPTera Metro 1400 Ethernet Service Module
• OPTera Metro 1450 Ethernet Service Module
The OPTera Metro 1000 series was designed to simplify the delivery of Ethernet services. Defining a new class
of Optical Ethernet edge device, the OPTera Metro 1000 series serves as the customer demarcation point and
entry ramp onto the service provider's network. As such, the OPTera Metro 1000 series offers the industry's
first consistent Ethernet user-to-network (UNI) interface, delivering cost-effective, secure and scalable
separation of customer traffic. In addition, the OPTera Metro 1000 series supports Nortel Networks industry-
unique Simple End Point Provisioning, significantly simplifying the provisioning of additions or changes to the
network and driving faster time-to-revenue and customer satisfaction. The three NEBS-compliant products
deliver a variety of access options to meet service demands and transport choices. The OPTera Metro 1000
series also features QoS to enable tiered services and profitable SLAs.
Like the OPTera Metro 1200, the OPTera Metro 1400 and 1450 Ethernet Service Modules (ESM) represent a new
class of purpose-built, carrier-class edge devices that will enable service providers expand their addressable
market for Ethernet services and to quickly and easily provision all types of Ethernet services.
When combined with other Nortel Networks' products such as OPTera Metro 8000 Services Switch, OPTera
Metro 3500 Multiservice Platform, or OPTera Metro 5200 Platform, service providers can offer profitable
virtual private LAN services over Fiber, and DWDM and reduce their operational costs. In an Ethernet over
Fiber scenario, the innovative Logical Provider Edge (LPE) model is utilised to eliminate the scalability and
bandwidth constraints of point-to-point, fully-meshed, or VLAN-based network models to offer virtual private
LAN services. Acting as the Services Edge element in the LPE framework, the OPTera Metro 1000 family helps
services providers:
• Increase the scalability of their service (up to tens of thousands of customers per metro),
while simplifying the network
• Speed provisioning (up to 10 times faster than a comparable RFC 2547 solution) and time-to-revenue
• Reduce operational complexity (operational expense savings up to 60% can be achieved, as compared to
RFC 2547 implementations). - For more information, read the Logical Provider Edge Technical Bulletin and/or
the Optical Ethernet Business Case for Service Providers.