A-2100 Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch

A-2100 Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch

Nokia Siemens Networks A-2100 Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch has been developed specifically for delivering MEF-based E-Line, E-LAN or E-Tree services either as CPE in customer environments or as an aggregator in Central Offices, Carrier Point of Presence and Collocation Cages with stringent environmental requirements. It is designed with a compact and ETSI-compliant size to save rack space, equipped with either AC or DC power and a rich set of hot-swappable interface cards. In addition to Ethernet services and triple-play services, with Nokia Siemens Networks industry-leading Circuit Emulation Service support, the A-2100 can help service providers migrate TDM-based traffic seamlessly over a high-performance, cost effective Carrier Ethernet network.

Features Multi-service enabled, including E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, CES, and triple-play services, on a single device Support for Hard QoS such as CIR, EIR and Priority Support for 50ms carrier-class protection without using Spanning Tree Protocol High performance and very low delay and jitter Strong and comprehensive OAM functions such as Ethernet Loopbacks and per-connection SLA measurement Compact and ETSI-compliant size with just 1U height

With the rapid increase in the need for high bandwidth, and the equally impressive increase in the performance of Ethernet within the LAN environment, the demand for metro network performance has never been greater.

The biggest challenge for service providers of all types is to deliver not only cost-effective and scalable performance, but also, and more importantly, a Carrier Ethernet solution that facilitates new services, rapid and easy provisioning, and dramatically reduced operational costs.

METRO ETHERNET FORUM

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A-Series Switches End-to-End Carrier Ethernet Solution

Dual homed GbE Rings A2160 10 GbE A4100 Business A2140 10 GbE A4100 DSLAM/ CMTS/PON A210 MTU GbE Access Rings A100 A2140 A8100 A2100 Service PoP Business N x 10 GbE Core Video Telephony A8100

A2100 A210

Residence DEMARC EDGE AGGREGATION CORE/NMS

ASPEN SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Product Overview
Nokia Siemens Networks A-2100 is a one rack-unit high, compact Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch that delivers cost-effective 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet or CES/TDM access interfaces for end customers. All the access modules are hot swappable.

It has two Gigabit Ethernet SFP/SSFpluggable ports for connectivity to the Carrier Ethernet core network. Redundant load-sharing AC and DC power are also hot swappable. The A-2100 can be deployed as a high-end CPE working with the Nokia Siemens Networks A-4000 and A-8000

Functions Hard QoS supporting CIR, EIR and priority with 64Kbps and 1Mbps granularity Call Admission Control (CAC), ensuring end-to-end bandwidth guarantee SONET-like 50ms protection using Fast Reroute protocol that is much faster and more scalable than Spanning Tree or Rapid Spanning Tree protocol Strong and comprehensive OAM functions including fast and pinpoint fault detection, alarm-service correlation, Ethernet loop-backs, as well as round-trip delay, jitter and packet loss measurement A full set of multicast features that support scalable and QoS guaranteed tripleplay services Wire-speed performance Very low delay and jitter Flexible and intelligent customer traffic mapping mechanisms that allows multi-services on one access interface Up to 2,000 protected connections per device Strong management capability

series of Carrier Ethernet Core Switches and ASPEN management system. The A-2100 can also be used as an aggregation switch working together with the A-100 or A-1180 demarcation device to provide a very cost-effective access solution. Using these products in conjunction, carriers and service providers can construct a powerful Metro infrastructure with high performance and efficiency, designed to quickly deliver profitable communication services. The A-2100 features 4Gbps nonblocking switching capacity. It offers up to 2,000 protected simultaneous connections supporting point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and multipoint-tomultipoint services. Customer traffic can be mapped to connections using multiple and flexible rules from layer 1 (port-based) up to layer 3 (IP Address, Protocol Type and DSCP bits).

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Applications
Multi-service CPE with High Service Availability for Business Customers
The A-2100 boasts a broad range of intelligent network services, featuring granular Quality of Service (QoS) and sub-50ms protection that enable service providers to rapidly provision secure Ethernet access with fully MEFcompliant Service Level Agreements (SLAs). High revenues from multi-services Fast trouble-shooting with the help of strong OAM functions Flexible customer traffic mapping schemes Support for single-strand fiber, reducing fiber costs Ease of management and service provisioning

ETSI-compliant Multi-service Aggregator in Central Office (CO)

Suitable for CO and street cabinet deployment with ETSI compliance, the A-2100 can be used in the CO to aggregate multiple business customers and deliver flexible, affordable E-Line, E-LAN and multicast or E-Tree services as well as TDM services. Rich set of interfaces with high port density allows aggregating many customers of various types A complete solution working with A-100, A-1180 and A-210 demarcation devices, providing end-to-end management and OAM functions Single-strand fiber interfaces, reducing fiber cost Support for TDM grooming functions (T1/E1 to OC-3/STM-1), helping keep the existing TDMbased services unchanged while providing new Ethernet services

FTTH/FTTC Aggregator for Triple-Play Services

The A-2100 also delivers triple-play services in FTTH/FTTC environments. It features all the standards-based multicast functions with full protection against both network failure and video source failure. Carriers and service providers are able to build a single infrastructure to serve both business and residential markets. Connection-oriented multicast solution for IPTV that is more scalable than IP-based multicast protocol such as PIM-SM Stringent QoS for guaranteed voice and video services 50ms protection against both network failure and video source failure Fast Channel Zapping and IGMP ACL Support for Open Access Business Model

MEF-Compliant Service Attributes

The A-2100 delivers flexible, affordable Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet access interfaces, supporting point-topoint, point-to-multipoint and multipointto-multipoint services. Customer traffic can be mapped to connections using any combination of rules from layer 1 to layer 3. The A-2100 fully supports Service Level Agreements defined by MEF service definitions including: Committed Information Rate (CIR) Excess Information Rate (EIR) Priority for bounded delay and jitter Protection levels (sub-10sec or sub-50ms) In addition to pure Ethernet connectivity, service providers can migrate legacy TDM traffic onto their Carrier Ethernet network using Circuit Emulation Services modules that provide ITU-T compliant E1/T1, E3/T3 and STM-1/OC-3 interfaces.

Full Protection and Reliability

The A-2100 has been designed to deliver the SONET-like 50ms protection and reliability that carriers demand, but with the price, performance and scalability of Carrier Ethernet. Unlike other products that base their protection mechanism on Spanning Tree Protocol, which leads to poor scalability, long and non-deterministic fail-over time, the protection mechanism of the A-2100 is similar to MPLS Fast Reroute, and thus can achieve sub50ms fail-over time. It also offers an end-to-end protection mechanism that protects against any types of failure within sub-10seconds, according to service profiles.

Industry-Leading Service Provisioning and Management Solution

Nokia Siemens Networks ASPEN solution is the industrys simplest network management and service management platform for managing Carrier Ethernet services. ASPEN delivers enhanced service management capabilities for rapid service provisioning, comprehensive network and element management, performance and fault management, and seamless integration with existing OSS applications. ASPEN software allows carriers and service providers to reliably and cost-effectively manage all elements of the network to deliver the most reliable, scalable and cost-effective Ethernet service offerings. Using a multi-layered modular architecture, ASPEN software supports large, dynamic carrier-class networks and is ideal for minimizing hardware deployment time, service planning, provisioning and monitoring.

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A-2100 Specifications

Standards IETF Standards

RFC 768 RFC 783 RFC 791 RFC 792 RFC 793 RFC 826 RFC 854 RFC 1157 RFC 1256 RFC 1907 RFC 2030 RFC 2236 RFC 2863 RFC 2668 RFC 2737 RFC 2495 RFC 4252 RFC 4253

Network Ports

Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-X ports, accommodating hot-swappable SFP/SSF transceivers with digital diagnostic monitoring (DDM) support, LC connector: 1000Base-SX Multi-mode (500m) 1000Base-LX Single-mode (10km) 1000Base-LH Single-mode (70km) 1000Base-LH Single-mode (120km) Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) interfaces (70km, 100km) Fast Ethernet 10/100Base-TX ports, RJ-45 connectors Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-X ports, accommodating hot-swappable GBIC transceivers, SC connector: 1000Base-SX Multi-mode (500m) 1000Base-LX Single-mode (10km) 1000Base-LH Single-mode (70km) Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) interfaces (50km, 100km) Twisted pair, HSSDC connector: 1000Base-CX (28m)

Access Ports - Ethernet

IETF Standards: MIB Support

IanaifType RFC 2096 RFC 2668 RFC 1213 RFC 2737 RFC 2863 RFC 2495 RFC 2558
Access Ports - TDM

Metro Ethernet Forum Standards

MEF 2 MEF 3 MEF 4 MEF 6 MEF 9 MEF 10 MEF 11 MEF 12 MEF 13 MEF 14
Regulatory

E1/T1 ports, RJ-45 connectors STM-1/OC-3 ports, accommodating SFP transceivers, LC connectors: STM-1/OC-3 SFP Transceiver, 2km, 1310nm, MMF STM-1/OC-3 SFP Transceiver, 15km, 1310nm, SMF STM-1/OC-3 SFP Transceiver, 40km, 1310nm, SM STM-1/OC-3 SFP Transceiver, 80km, 1550nm, SMF ETSI (ETS 300 119-2. -3) RoHS EMC USA & Canada: FCC 47 CFR part 15 Subpart B, Class B Europe: EN 300-386-2, Class B, EN 300 132 Japan: VCCI, Class B USA: UL 60950 Canada: CSA C22.2 No. 950 Europe: EN 60950 ASPEN RS-232 Administration Console: Industrystandard Command Line Interface (CLI ) Out-of-band management via 10/100Base-TX port In-band management of entire network via Gigabit Ethernet port Dedicated management VLAN Supports multiple NMS stations SNMP Telnet Modem

IEEE 802 Standards

IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.3u IEEE 802.3z IEEE 802.1p IEEE 802.1D IEEE 802.1Q

Safety

Management

All specifications are subject to change.

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