Alcatel-Lucent 7250 SAS User Manual

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Alcatel-Lucent 7250 SAS
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The Alcatel-Lucent 7250 Service Access Switch (SAS) is a feature-rich customer edge device, purpose-built to 
increase service-provider revenues and deliver a complete portfolio of Carrier Ethernet services to enterprises. 
The 7250 SAS is Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 9 and MEF 14 certified and supports Multiprotocol Label Switching 
(MPLS), Ethernet, circuit emulation, and operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) tools. It is managed  
by the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM). The 7250 SAS enables service providers to increase 
revenues through enhanced service offerings and allows enterprise customers to expand capabilities and 
decrease costs.
The Alcatel-Lucent 7250 SAS gives 
service providers a competitive edge 
by cost-effectively extending service 
intelligence to the customer edge. 
By extending service intelligence to 
the customer premises, the 7250 SAS 
allows service providers to extend 
service level agreements (SLAs) to the 
customer premises and provides access 
to more enhanced Carrier Ethernet 
services such as virtual private local 
area network (LAN) services (VPLS)  
and virtual private wire services (VPWS), 
which support the increasing demands 
of enterprise data, voice and video 
applications. In addition, the 7250 SAS 
enables service providers to transpar-
ently carry Time Division Multiplexing- 
(TDM) based voice and data applica-
tions across an IP/MPLS backbone to 
enable new circuit emulation services 
(CES) and support TDM backhauling 
applications such as Private Branch 
Exchange (PBX) backhaul and leased 
line replacement.
The 7250 SAS gives enterprise customers 
a competitive advantage by reducing 
their leased line costs when connectivity 
is provided by the service provider. The 
7250 SAS also increases the services 
that enterprises can provide to their 
internal customers. All the benefits of 
the 7250 SAS gained by a service pro-
vider that offers services to enterprises 
can be realized by enterprise customers 
who decide to install and manage their 
own private networks.