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Enabling Community ProsperityThrough Advanced Broadband Services

During the past few years, municipalities and public util ities have

recognized the benefits of accessing global infor mation. Broadband

is particularly valuable in the areas of public safety, distance learning

and telemedicine. However, many communities have poor access to

information infra structure and broadband services. With advanced

appli cations and services becoming increasingly crucial, some munici -

palities and utilities are taking a proactive approach to broadband-

access-network creation.

As a world leader in broadband access, optical and IP/multiprotocol label

switching (MPLS) infrastructure, Alcatel-Lucent has been helping munic -

ipalities bridge the digital divide for many years, offering advanced

technology to both promote economic development and enrich lives.

Alcatel-Lucent Enabling Community Prosperity Through Advanced Broadband Services2

Overview

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Bridging the Digital Divide

Customer Challenge

Until now, private-sector broadband buildouts havefocused on major metro areas and wealthier suburbs,invariably lead ing to geographic disparity in network,service avail ability and pricing. In many cases, rural areasdo not have access to any broadband services, never mindcompeting alternatives, creating economic, educationaland quality-of-life disadvantages.

The growing public-sector interest in broadband com -munications is driven by the desire to make informationavailable to everyone. Where incumbent service providersdo not offer adequate broadband access, municipalitiesare building their own fiber networks to help theircommunities remain competitive, fostering economicdevelopment. This proactive approach presents somechallenges, including what portion of the network to own,what services should be offered and to whom (government,businesses, residences), whether to use a phased implemen-tation, billing, outsourcing some or all activities, etc.

Municipalities are building their networks using manydifferent business models. Some involve public-privatepartnerships with incumbent and competitive serviceproviders. In most cases the financial risk to the municipaltax base is minimal because financing is available via rev -enue bonds or from third parties. Regardless of the financialmodel, municipal broadband networks must be flexible,cost-effective and efficient while delivering afford ablebroadband services to underserved and rural areas.

Municipalities with existing metropolitan fiber

networks for their government business are

discovering that leveraging these assets to

provide next-generation voice, video and data

services can bolster their bottom line, as well

as provide advanced services to citizens.

Broadband is the great equalizer. Broadband accesspromises to affect rural communities in the 21st century as much as roads and highways did in the 20th, withoutcom promising their small-town qualities.


Schools

City Hall

Optical/MPLSNetwork

7450 ESS/1850/DMX

IP

Hospitals

6850

7250 SAS

7750 SR

InternetVoIP

7710 SR

Figure 1. Step 1: Deploy fiber within the community to improve operations and communications between different government organizations

To further OPEX reductions, tech -nologies such as VoIP can be deployedover the new network, significantlyreducing the expense of voice circuitsat each facility. Fiber network owner-ship allows for virtually unlimitedbandwidth to support current andfuture applications, helping munici -palities improve collaboration andoperating efficiencies.

Municipalities with existing met -ropolitan fiber networks for theirgovernment business are discoveringthat leveraging these assets to providenext-generation voice, video anddata services can bolster their bottomline, as well as provide advancedservices to citizens.

Alcatel-Lucent MunicipalBroadband Solution

To ease the financial and politicalburdens of entering the broadbandarena, Alcatel-Lucent has a three-step approach that letsmunicipalities reap the benefits ofbroadband while minimizing theimpact of becoming a communitynetwork operator. This tieredapproach allows municipalities toleverage their assets and rights-of-way to deliver revenue-generatingservices while building the necessarycommunity-wide support.

F I B E R D E P L O Y M E N T The first step in Alcatel-Lucent’sthree-step approach involves deploy -ing fiber-based networks to improvemunicipal operations. Applicationsto improve the effectiveness andefficiency of city government, suchas video confer encing, critical-infra -structure video monitoring, collabora-tion tools and voice over IP (VoIP),are increasing the bandwidth neededbetween city facilities. Buying morecapacity and leased lines from localcarriers is an option; however, it canbe a costly, and often only temporary,solution. By deploying an Ethernet/IP/MPLS-based fiber network betweenfacilities, municipalities can eliminatethe monthly fees associated withleased lines (see Figure 1).

Schools

Business

City Hall

Business

ServiceProvider

Wholesale

Optical/MPLSNetwork

7450 ESS/1850/DMX

IP

ServiceProvider

Wholesale

Hospitals

7342 ISAMFTTU

6850

6850

7250 SAS

7750 SR

InternetVoIP

7710 SR

Figure 2. Step 2: Extend the network to provide wholesale and/or retail services that generate revenue and community support for a community-wide build out

R E V E N U E G E N E R A T I O N The second step involves generatingrevenue by extending the networkto provide wholesale and/or retailservices. Hospitals, schools, govern -ment agen cies, corporations and otherbusinesses within the community allpay monthly fees to a service providerfor telecommunications services. Manyof these estab lishments are withineasy reach of the new, community-wide fiber network and could bereached with a short build throughmunicipally-owned rights-of-way. Byusing the municipality as their localservice provider, these business andeducational organizations can enjoysignificant benefits, including lower-cost, higher-bandwidth services andhigh quality, reliable, responsivecustomer support, increasing theircivic support by investing back intothe local econ omy (see Figure 2).


This is an important transition stage because it allows municipali -ties to ease into the role of serviceprovider, generates revenue to financea community-wide buildout andbuilds the necessary public supportbased on positive cus tomer feedbackand success.

These services are better, faster andcheaper than previously-availableservices, giving consumers choice andquality similar to, or better than, thoseavailable in major metropolitanareas (see Figure 3).

This is the Alcatel-LucentMunicipal Broadba nd Solution, a tiered approach to building athriving community based on equalaccess to important community,residential and business services.

F I B E R T O T H E H O M E The final step in Alcatel-Lucent’s three-step approachinvolves transitioning to a full, community-wide networkbuildout. Thanks to stages one and two, financial andpolitical obstacles have been minimized, while operationalissues have been identified and fine tuned. At this stage,residential subscribers are offered:

• Broadband data: Internet access and large file transfer

• Video: video on demand (VoD) and broadcasttelevision (BTV)

• Voice services


Business

Head-EndSystem

BTV

Schools

City Hall

HomeGateway

HomeGateway

Business

ServiceProvider

Wholesale

Optical/MPLSNetwork

7450 ESS/1850/DMX

IP

ServiceProvider

Wholesale

Hospitals

ApartmentBlock

HomeGateway

HomeGateway

HomeGateway

7342 7342 ISAMFTTU

7342

6850

6850

6850

6850

7250 SAS7750 SR

Internet

VoD

VoIP

7710 SR

Figure 3. Step 3: Transition to a full community-wide network build out that supports advanced services similar to or better than those available in major metropolitan areas.

LargeBusiness

School

City Hall

HospitalWater, Sewer,Power Facility

Fiber/Optical Microwave

IP/MPLS

Fire Station

Police

OmniSwitch6850

7330 ISAMFTTN

7342 ISAMFTTU POLT

1850 TSS

BroadbandService Edge

Management

Point-to-PointActive Ethernet

Copper

PONFiber 7750 SR

Public Network

Intranet SP

Video SP

Broadcast TV

Game SP

Fiber/Microwave

SDH/SONET

Fiber

IP

Substation

5620 SAM1350 OMS5750 SSC

• Broadband Internet access• Video, Broadcast TV• Voice

• Broad access portfolio to cost-effectively satisfy a range of applications• Rich, scalable service delivery infrastructure for an open network/wholesale model or end-to-end turnkey solution for retail• End-to-end service and network management to simplify, improve customer satisfaction and reduce OPEX

WiMax

Figure 4. Alcatel-Lucent Municipal Broadband Solution Architecture

Network Equipment in the Municipal Broadband Solution

Built around Alcatel-Lucent’s carrier-grade equipment, the Alcatel-LucentMunicipal Broadband Solution provides an ideal infrastructure for deliveringcommuni cation, information and entertainment services (see Figure 4):

• Broad access portfolio cost-effectively satisfies a range of applications

• Rich, scalable service-delivery infrastructure for an open network/wholesalemodel, or end-to-end turnkey solution for retail

• End-to-end service and network management simpli fies operations,improves customer satisfaction and reduces OPEX


The Alcatel-Lucent Solution

S E R V I C E - O R I E N T E D E T H E R N E T S W I T C H The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS) isa carrier-class switch/router specifically designed to providescalable, point-to-point and multipoint connectivityservices. Unlike traditional Ethernet switches (developedto provide best-effort connectivity and lacking in scalabil-ity, reliability and service orientation), it can support tensof thousands of services per device and scale to hundredsof thousands of services per area. The Alcatel-Lucent 7450ESS target services include:

• Virtual leased line (VLL): point-to-point Layer 2

• Virtual private LAN service (VPLS): multipoint Layer 2

• VPLS-based, IP-multicast video distribution


OpticalCables

OpticalCables

Service DeliveryHub

HV Grid

1850 TSS/1660 SM/

1665 DMX

1850 TSS/1660 SM/

1665 DMX7750 SR

7750 SR

5620 SAM1350 OMS5750 SSC

• Scalable Ethernet transport solution with high availability optimizes cost and user satisfaction for a range of applications and traffic mix• End-to-end transport management simplifies and reduces OPEX• Full integration services to help minimize technology risk

Power LineCommunications (PLC)

Power LineNetwork

Broadband Power Line(BPL) Communications

Triple PlayServices

Triple Play Services(data, video, voice)

Aggregation/Transport

Power LineNetwork

7450 ESS

Video Network

OperationsCenter

Internet

NGSDH

OpticalCore

Figure 5. Municipal Utility/Utelco Network

The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS pro -vides transport and aggregation forresidential broadband services, businessEthernet services and internal commu-nications on a converged network.

For broadband solutions, Alcatel-Lucent has an unusually broadportfolio of transport/aggregationsolutions to cost-effectively supporta diverse range of applications (seeFigure 5). This includes microwaveproducts for terrains where fiberdeployment is not feasible, or can be more economically served via awireless solution. When com binedwith an Ethernet switch or opticalEthernet prod ucts as part of an over -all broadband transport solution,common management simplifies and reduces OPEX.

C A R R I E R - G R A D E P O N S O L U T I O N The Alcatel-Lucent Municipal Broadband Solutionincludes passive optical network (PON)-based fiber accessfor ultra high-speed connec tivity, consisting of the Alcatel-Lucent 7342 Packet Optical Line Terminal (P-OLT) andvarious types of customer premises equipment (CPE)optical network terminals.

The Alcatel-Lucent 7342 P-OLT is a highly-scalable fiber-access aggre gation platform. It leverages Alcatel-Lucent’sleadership in broadband access, including a broadbandcus tomer base of over 100 million world wide. Plug-inmodules can support up to 64 CPE devices for a total of4,608 subscribers in a single chassis. It is ideal for municipalaccess networks because it supports a pay-as-you-grow archi-tecture. This keeps CAPEX low: simply add a line cardevery time you want to add an additional 64 subscribers.

Residential voice services in a PON solution are providedon the munic ipal network using VoIP, and are con nectedto a Class 5 switch with a General Bandwidth G6 voicegateway, or connected directly to a softswitch. This archi-tecture is ideal for support ing an open-access infrastructurebecause any number of voice or data service providerscan easily connect to the network.

T R I P L E - P L A Y S E R V I C E R O U T E R The Alcatel-Lucent 7750/7710 ServiceRouters (SRs) are the industry’s firstrouters designed and optimized fordeliv ering high-performance voice,video and data services. By addingthe Alcatel-Lucent 7750/7710 SR,municipalities can offer IP VoD,broadband Internet-service accessand full voice services across theirnetworks, reliably scaling to tens of thousands of subscribers. Theenhanced quality of service (QoS)capabilities ensure delay-sensitiveapplica tions, such as voice and video,get priority. Applications such asInternet access, are still given fullservice level agreement (SLA)bandwidth on a per-user, per-servicebasis, tailoring and maximizingnetwork resources.

C O N F E R E N C I N G A N DC O L L A B O R A T I O N Alcatel-Lucent’s industry-leadingcollaboration tools empower munic -ipalities to enable voice-, video- anddata-conferencing services over oneintegrated system. This includesinstant conference-bridge setup,allowing different agencies anddepartments, regardless of networklocation, to launch one bridge withfour different purposes — voiceinteraction, video interaction, datainstant messaging and applicationsharing — and to invite parties to theconference instantly. The system alsoincludes an automated distributionmessaging system that performs out-dialing based on a call list — used,for example, as a reverse-911 notifi -cation system.


M U L T I - D W E L L I N G T E R M I N A LThe Alcatel-Lucent Fiber to theUnit (FTTU) 7342 Multi-DwellingUnit ONT (MDU-ONT) is thesmallest ONT exclusively dedicatedto meeting the broadband needs ofapartment dwellers. Typically mount-ed in the building’s basement, it iscapable of serving voice, video anddata by using the building’s existingtelephone cabling (category 3 twistedpair cable type [Cat 3]), or via Cat 5cabling. Total interfaces are:

• 12 very-high-data-rate DSL(VDSL2) or 12 GigE subscriberinterfaces (one per residential unit)

• 1 75 Ohm video coaxial (35 decibel ratio of watts [dBm],to feed 12 residential units)

• 24 POTS telephone interfaces (2 per residential unit)

CPE in the Municipal Solution HIGH-BANDWIDTH CPE WITHTDM-OVER-IP AND ADVANCED QoSBusiness customers and multitenantoffice complexes with extremely-highbandwidth requirements (1 Gb/s),such as hospitals, schools and enter -prises, can obtain cost-competitivesolutions by using the Alcatel-Lucent7250 Services Access Switch. ThisMPLS-enabled platform is extremelyflexible, with several interfaces andfeatures:

• Two small form-factor pluggable(SFP) Gigabit Ethernet (GigE)uplinks, two SFP GigE subscriberconnections

• 8 10/100BaseT, 12 SFP 100BaseFXsubscriber connections

• One or two 4-T1 access modulessupporting subscriber connections

• Advanced QoS and bandwidthmanagement

R E S I D E N T I A L N E T W O R K T E R M I N A L The Alcatel-Lucent 7342 HomeOptical Network Terminal (H-ONT)is a device that can be mounted onthe inside or outside of a residentialdwelling. It offers:

• One or two Ethernet subscriberconnections for up to 100 Mb/sconnectivity

• Two or four POTS telephone lines for up to four separate phonenumbers

• One coaxial cable connection for radio frequency (RF) video(cable TV, for example)

• VoIP software client for POTS-to-VoIP interworking

• IPTV support using IGMPmulticast


B U S I N E S S N E T W O R K T E R M I N A L The Alcatel-Lucent 7342 BusinessOptical Network Terminal (B-ONT)is a device that can be mounted onthe inside or outside of a businessbuilding. It supplies:

• 1 GigE subscriber connection forup to 1,000 Mb/s connectivity

• Eight POTS telephone lines for up to eight separate phone lines

• One coaxial cable connection forRF video (cable TV, for example)

• Up to two T1 subscriber connec -tions to support legacy applicationssuch as private branch exchange(PBX) trunking

VoiceGateway

7450/7750

Private Networks forSchool Districts, City,

County, etc.

Metro WDMAccess Ring

Access Aggregation Site

Service Delivery Hub

OpticalRing

1692/1696MS

1662 SM

1640 OADM

MDR8000/9000

7342

5620/7342Management

OmniVista

HospitalsLarge Business Sites

Schools

Homes

Country Sites

Homes

SME Sites

OAM

Public Libraries

SME Sites

InternetSP

InternetSP

VoDSP

IP VideoSP

VoiceSP

6850 6850

Figure 6. End-to-End Service Transport

W O R K G R O U P S W I T C H I N G Ideal for deployment within munici pal facilities, theAlcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850/6200 Series con sists of advanced, stackable, fixed-configuration, triple-speed(10/100/1000) Ethernet switches (see Figure 6). Theseswitches provide wire-rate Layer 2 forwarding and Layer 3routing with advanced services, and 10 Gb support. TheAlcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850/6200 switches increasenetwork performance, improve application response times,secure the local area network (LAN) and enhance userproductivity. Advanced features enable services such asvideo conferencing, VoIP and multimedia collaboration.Switches are available in 24- or 48-port ver sions withmultiple fiber and copper-based GigE uplinks.


V O I C E O V E R I P Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniPCX products and technology enableall locations in a municipality, school and/or business net -work to interact, using the latest in reliable VoIP systems.These systems include the newest IP phone sets capableof providing high-quality voice service and of supportingalmost any XML application. The voice sys tem offers asingle, reliable communi cation server that supports analog,digital, IP, wireless and soft phones. The platform can beredundantly deployed to provide a recovery mechanism incase of failure. The Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX can be com-bined with the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch Ethernet switches and routers as partof the corporate voice and data building infrastructure.

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Open Access

To allow multiple voice, video or data service providers onthe network, the Alcatel-Lucent Municipal BroadbandSolution creates an open network based on Layer 2 VPLS.It leverages MPLS for a scalable, reliable and operationally-efficient solu tion. Relying on MPLS-based redundancymethods, the core of the network ensures the fast reroutetimes essential when offering and guaran teeing SLAs toservice-provider customers.

Core System Redundancy and Reliability

Core infrastructure components of the Alcatel-LucentMunicipal Broadband Solution support the highest levelsof redundancy, including:

• Box-level redundancy where desired (redundant corerouters, for example)

• Full system-redundancy capabilities (redundant powersup plies, switch fabrics, central processing units[CPUs], etc.)

• Redundant connections between devices

• Sub 50 ms restoration times on critical links

• Redundant servers for VoIP

Pay-as-You-Grow Architecture

Every component of the Alcatel-Lucent MunicipalBroadband Solution supports a pay-as-you-grow architec -ture. This allows a municipality to add equipment and incurCAPEX only when the customer base grows, and to offsetthis expense with addi tional revenue. If competitivepressures or growth requirements necessitate expansion,remote offices can be easily added in neigh boring commu -nities by simply adding as many remotely-deployed Alcatel-Lucent PON shelves, Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS switches andCPE devices as needed, without any disruption of service.

Voice-Service Scalability

As the subscriber base grows, moremodules can be added to the GeneralBandwidth G6 Alcatel-LucentOmniPCX for increased capacity. Upto 14 telephony processor modules(TPM) may be added for a combinedtotal of 3,360 simultaneous calls or20,160 phone lines per chassis with6:1 oversubscription.

Voice-Service Reliability

Reliable voice services are made pos -sible by an Alcatel-Lucent MunicipalBroadband Solution that includes aGeneral Bandwidth G6 voice gate -way with redundant connections toClass 5 switches from any number of upstream local exchange carriers.Every component in this carrier-classsolution is redun dant. It featuresprotected cards, circuits, backplanes,switch fabrics, interfaces, power sup -plies and control modules. A batterybackup at the customer premises alsoprovides up to eight hours of talk timeduring residential power failures.

IP Video Support

IP video requires a multicast routerdesigned specifically for handling theimmense task of IGMP-query gener -ation and report reception, as well as IP-video unicast and multicast for -warding. The Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR,when used in conjunction with theAlcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS and theAlcatel-Lucent 7340 P-OLT, enablesthe Alcatel-Lucent MunicipalBroadband Solution to provide theultimate platform for delivering alltypes of IP video. Processing power,bandwidth concerns and QoS handl -ing are all optimized, allowing thenetwork to efficiently scale to supportthousands of simultaneous video users.

Solution Benefits

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RF Video Support

Alcatel-Lucent partners with industryleaders in solutions for digital andanalog RF-video support that deliversstandard and high-definition broad -cast video as well as VoD and pay-per-view. Solutions support the NationalTelevision Standards Committee(NTSC) video standard and a fre -quency range of 50 MHz to 870 MHz.In addition, the solutions supportinteractive TV applications, VoDand personal video recorder (PVR)over coaxial in-home wiring.

Bandwidth In the access network, the Alcatel-Lucent Municipal Broadband Solutionprovides a full service access net -work (FSAN) standards-compliantbroadband PON (GPON) for up to 100 Mb/s capacity per user. Eachfully-loaded Alcatel-Lucent 7342 P-OLT shelf has 18 GPON line cards,supporting up to 4,608 subscribers.Each GPON line card has four PONports, each port can support up to 64 sub scribers. The system includes2.5 Gb/s downstream and 1.25 Gb/supstream capacity for a given GPON.

In addition, the Alcatel-Lucent 7342P-OLT has advanced dynamic band -width allocation (DBA) mechanisms,ensuring unused bandwidth is avail -able to sup port data burst rates up to1 Gb for each subscriber. Bandwidthcan also be reserved for critical serv -ices such as voice and IP video. Anygiven user can have a minimum of20 Mb/s of reserved bandwidth.MPEG-4, widely recognized as thenext video-compression technology,is supported enabling each buildingto have several high-definition tele -vision (HDTV) channels runningsimulta neously, providing high-qualityVoD services. These features, coupledwith the QoS and traffic-shapingmechanisms of the Alcatel-LucentMunicipal Broadband Solution, com -bine to create an unprecedentedend-user experience.

In the core, the Alcatel-LucentMunicipal Broadband Solution is unequaled. There is no product on the market that can scale QoS-enabled bandwidth quite like it.

Today, Alcatel-Lucent has the best broad band PON (BPON)

solution in the industry, with full IP-networking support, and

expects to have a fully standards-compliant gigabit PON (GPON)

solution early next year, with four times the bandwidth and

unmatched optical performance.

In addition to higher-speed accesstechnology, Alcatel-Lucent has anIP-optimized non-blocking archi -tecture unique in the industry, butessen tial for successful IP service con -vergence. Today, Alcatel-Lucent hasthe best GPON solution in the indus-try with full IP-networking support.

The final result is end-to-end trans -port of services (see Figure 6).

Security

Network security is critical for ensur-ing services are reliably delivered withprotection from various potentialthreats and vulnerabilities, includinguncontrolled or unauthorized, peer-to-peer connectivity, theft of serviceand denial-of-service attacks. TheAlcatel-Lucent Municipal BroadbandSolution defends against these threatsand potential vulnerabilities withnumerous mechanisms, including:

• Blocking of Ethernet forwardingbetween access interfaces

• Blocking of Ethernet broadcastsand Address Resolution Protocols(ARPs) between access interfaces

• Source-address filtering

• Per-customer interface queuingand control traffic filtering

• Per-interface filter counts

• Interface service mirroring

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QoS Scalability Traditional Ethernet/IP switches androuters do not provide the robustQoS required in a next-generationIP-services network. To ensure thatvoice, video and data receive therequired network resources and treat-ment, the Alcatel-Lucent MunicipalBroadband Solution implements afull suite of QoS mechanisms.

The solution includes numerousinnovative QoS features to ensurepredictable performance in theEthernet/IP network:

• Optimal and predictable delay/jitter characteristics for voice andvideo traffic

• Hierarchical QoS (H-QoS) with aminimum of two levels to providebandwidth partitions for specificcontent sources

• Support for flow-based queuingwith at least eight QoS queues perVLAN and hundreds of queuesper GigE for fine-grain contentdifferentiation

• Wire-speed, ingress and egresspolic ing and shaping on allqueues, per port

• Per-queue rate shaping to commit -ted information rate/peak informa -tion rate (CIR/PIR) at ingress andegress for thousands of queues perphysical port

• Accurate per-queue usage-basedaccounting

• Counters per individual queue and individual rule with extensivelogging capabilities

• Wire-speed, deep packet inspectionfor Layer 2 and Layer 4 classifica -tion and marking for service andcon tent differentiation

• Classification and marking basedon arbitrary byte offset, applicationtype and user datagram protocol(UDP)/TCP port number

Complete, Effective Management

One of the most critical componentsto a highly-functional, responsive andalways-on network is a full set ofman agement tools and capabilitiesto acknowledge, interrogate andresolve network issues immediately.It must also include the ability toavoid net work problems before theyhappen through planning and testingtools. Alcatel-Lucent has industry-leading management tools with thesecapabil ities, and much more, signifi -cantly simplifying the managementof com plex networks, providingstatistics and billing information and reducing the cost of managingbroadband services.

Alcatel-Lucent’s full range of man -age ment tools include the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager,the Alcatel-Lucent 5750 SubscriberServices Controller, the Alcatel-Lucent 5650 Control Plane AssuranceManager, the Alcatel-Lucent 1353and 1354 Element and NetworkManagers, the Alcatel-Lucent 5526Access Management System andmore, all working together to pro -vide unparalleled control of yournetwork resources.

Help Making it Happen

Many municipalities and utilitiestoday face the challenge of rapidlyintroducing new services for theresidential and business markets,reducing cost and enhancing theircustomer’s experience. Most realizethat moving to an IP infrastructure,including DSL, wireless, optical andother technolo gies, is key to fast cost-effective service creation. Alcatel-Lucent has been the strategic partnerof most operators and many munic -ipalities and util ities man aging atransformation. IP transfor mationcan be a complex and risky journeyand has impacts across all assets andactivities: net work, appli ca tions,operations support system (OSS),processes and organi zation. To supportour customers in their transforma -tion programs, Alcatel- Lucent hasdeveloped proven capabilities inConsulting, End-to-End SolutionDesign & Integration, Deployment& Migration, Program Managementand Operation Support Services.

For municipalities electing to directlysell broadband services to residentialand business customers, Alcatel-Lucent can provide marketing andbusiness-development collateral,help ing in developing, pricing andmar ket ing broadband services.

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Municipalities throughout the worldare bridging the digital divide andfurther ing economic development bypromoting broadband services in theircommu nities. Municipal broadbandnetworks help fill important unmetneeds in under served and rural areaswhile enabling municipalities toleverage resources through a varietyof public-private partnership businessmodels, providing open access toaffordable, high-quality broadbandservices to all citizens.

Alcatel-Lucent is the broadbandindustry leader in every region of theworld, with a market share of 38 per -cent and over 100 million cumulativeDSL lines shipped. No other suppliercan match Alcatel-Lucent’s breadthand depth of expertise and flexibilityin providing integrated solutions forbroadband data, video and voiceservices to service providers, munic -ipalities, utilities and enterprises.

The Alcatel-Lucent Advantage

www.alcatel-lucent.comAlcatel, Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent and the Alcatel-Lucent logo are trademarks of Alcatel-Lucent. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The information presented is subject to change without notice. Alcatel-Lucent assumes no responsibility for inaccuracies contained herein. © 2007 Alcatel-Lucent. All rights reserved. WLN1103070703 (08)

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