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TECHNICAL INFORMATION GUIDE

Alcatel Optical Multi-Service Nodes


ISA Ethernet 10/100/1000 Access modules

Enabling advanced Metro Ethernet Services over Next Generation SDH


Introduction
This Technical Information Guide describes architecture and applications of ISA
(Integrated Service Adapter) Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet Access plug in boards.
Alcatel ISA Ethernet 10/100/1000 Access modules were conceived as add-on modules for
the Alcatel Optical Multi-Service Nodes (OMSN) product family – the Alcatel’s next-
generation SDH systems.
ISA Ethernet Access modules provide comprehensive interfacing, mapping and
transport features that enable Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet services delivery over the
public transport network.
ISA Ethernet Access modules, together with ISA Packet Ring layer 2 switching
modules, realize the OMSN Metro Ethernet Solution.

ISA Ethernet Access modules are:

> ISA-Eth

o Ethernet 10/100 rate-adaptive transport, with provisionable WAN


bandwidth

> ISA-GbE

o Gigabit Ethernet rate-adaptive transport, with provisionable WAN


bandwidth

ISA Ethernet 10/100/1000 Access modules together with ISA Packet Ring empower
OMSN portfolio to offer telecom carriers and service providers – be established on new
entrants - the powerful solution to build IP-enabled optical networks.
OMSN’s integrated TDM and Packet capabilities enable Service Providers to achieve
the optimal balance between new competitive service offerings and traditional revenue-
generating services.
By only incremental investments OMSN enhance transport networks with new data
service support functions to augment overall network utility. World-class Metro
Ethernet service delivery can be therefore realized by leveraging on the existing
dominant SDH transport infrastructure at minimal
cost..
Table Of Contents

ISA-Eth module ...............................................................................................................4


General Description......................................................................................................4
Architecture..................................................................................................................4
Management.................................................................................................................3
Protections: Dual homing .............................................................................................3
Equipment Engineering:...............................................................................................3
ISA-Eth module usage in 1660 SM ...............................................................................3
ISA-Eth module usage in 1650 SMC.............................................................................4
ISA-Eth module usage in 1640 FOX .............................................................................4
ISA-GbE Module ..............................................................................................................5
General Description......................................................................................................5
Architecture..................................................................................................................6
Figure 13 – ISA-GbE Architecture..........................................................................6
Traffic provisioning.......................................................................................................6
Equipment Engineering:...............................................................................................7
ISA-GbE module usage in 1660 SM and 1670 SM ........................................................7
ISA-GbE module usage in 1650 SMC ...........................................................................7
ISA-GbE module usage in 1640 FOX ............................................................................8
ISA-Eth module The major benefits that can be experienced utilizing ISA
Ethernet card in the SDH networks are:

> Interfaces cost reduction;


General Description
> Bandwidth shaping according to clients needs.
ISA Ethernet module provides 10/100baseT interfaces The interface cost reduction is achieved thanks to the
allowing the interconnection of two LANs in a point to native interfaces provided on the board that allow to
point configuration. The cards act as a gateway towards replace the expensive up-link ports, which use the POS
the SDH network. This point-to-point connectivity is , (Packet Over SDH/SONET), traditionally. This leads to
today, fairly effective to cover Ethernet MAN applications an infrastructures optimization of the operator and cost
from the service point of view such as transparent LAN reduction for the end-user.
services and Internet access.- The bandwidth can be allocated to the end users in
Service Level Agreement proposed through this approach accordance with the real need, independently from the
is equivalent to the well known SDH leased line concept. interface type. Furthermore the operators are enabled to
The principle of the leased line guarantees a dedicated offer more services with enhanced flexibility and
and independent path for every service, which can be granularity, optimizing the bandwidth through the SDH
protected or unprotected, but anyway monitored within network.
the usual management capability of a transmission
network; those services are intrinsically segregated by the Architecture
usage of the transport network resources (Figure 1).

Internet Access ISP Router

Internet Access

LAN to LAN
connection Ethernet frames
mapped in SDH VC

Figure 2: ISA-Eth main board


Ethernet frames are mapped over SDH VC using Generic

Figure 1: Metro Ethernet Access in OMSN with Framing Procedure (GFP) encapsulation (ITU-T G. 7041).
ISA-Eth All the Ethernet access connectors are on the front panel
of the unit (Fig 2).
Alcatel Optical Multi-Service Nodes
ISA Ethernet 10/100/1000 Access modules

The OSI stack relationship and Ethernet frame


SDH PORT SDH PORT

RX TX
encapsulation are shown in figure 4.
STM- N STM- N
TX RX
SDH
VC
SDH
Xconnection
Transparency to all upper
layer protocols
ISA Eth ISA Eth
Access Access
Module Module
14 x I/F Backplane 14 x I/F IPv4 IPv6 IPX MPLS Ethernet Frame
bus
connection
SDH …
Ethernet
GFP Ethernet Frame
ISA Eth GFP
ISA Eth PHY
Port Port SDH
Module Module
11 x I/F 11 x I/F SDH Payload
Ethernet STM-n
I/F I/F

Figure 3: ISA-Eth architecture


Figure 4: GFP mapping
The architecture of the board is represented in Figure 3. The Ethernet frames received through the native
It is based on two cards: interfaces are mapped using the GFP protocol into the
> access card that provides 14 Ethernet interfaces SDH VC-x and then transmitted through the SDH. At the
10BaseT or 100BaseT, sink Ethernet frames are recovered and then directed

> main board that provides 11 Ethernet interfaces toward the relevant interfaces. Full transparency with
10BaseT or 100BaseT. respect of the upper layer protocols is maintained.
The Ethernet traffic, opportunely mapped in the SDH SDH bandwidth allocation can be managed following two
transport structures, is then sent toward the SDH matrix approach:
from the back–plane with 4 STM–1 equivalent > Each Ethernet interface is independently mapped
throughput. into 1xVC12/VC3/VC4. The container is then
The unit is able to execute a rate-adapting action, hence it cross-connected in the matrix as any other VC
tributary.
is able to cross–connect a 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet stream
into an SDH virtual container of any dimension (VC12, > Each Ethernet interface can be mapped as N x
VC3, VC4). VC12/VC3 through the usage of packet
concatenation. Each VC runs independently
Data transfer rate from Customer equipment is limited in
inside the SDH network; for each of these VC a
accordance with SDH capacity by the 802.3x flow control
dedicated cross-connection is required inside the
mechanism. matrix. Thanks to the information contained into
The flow control mechanism is used to prevent the the GFP Header the frames are re-aligned at the
congestion of the transmission network that may cause sink side.
packet discarding. When the buffer memory dedicated to
a certain service is overloaded by an Ethernet frames
peak exceeding the nominal bit rate specified by the SLA,
the flow control mechanism ( IEEE 802.3x) stops the
client source until the bandwidth allocated to the service
is able to absorb the extra traffic. The result is that no
packets are lost even in case of congestion.

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Management Of course the SDH pipe transporting Ethernet frames can

The Ethernet port, being part of OSMN portfolio is fully be protected through usual mechanisms provided by SDH

managed by Alcatel Network Management System. network

Equipment Engineering:
This following chapter describes the ISA-Ethernet card
traffic and OMSN implementation engineering rules.

Figure 5: Ethernet port management in OMSN

Protections: Dual homing


Figure 7: ISA-Eth, GbE and Packet Ring in
In case of failure of either LAN-to-LAN Board or Access OMSN
Board the Service Protection can be guaranteed by a dual
homing connection between the LAN Switch and the ISA-Eth module usage in 1660 SM
OMSN.
The L2/L3 customer equipments are connected to OMSNs > ISA-Eth main board: 1 slot in lower shelf area
(11 x Ethernet ports)
using two separate ISA Ethernet ports and the Ethernet
traffic is transported through the SDH network utilizing > ISA-Eth access board: 1 slot in upper shelf area
(14 x Eth ports) to improve port density.
2 different paths..
In case of failure the L2 and L3 equipment switch the > ISA-Eth can be housed in any Port slot.
Ethernet traffic to the second ISA Ethernet port. > Up to 400 Ethernet interfaces per shelf

SDH

Figure 6 Dual homing protection

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ISA-Eth module usage in 1640 FOX

> ISA-Eth main board: 1 slot in lower shelf area


(11 x Ethernet ports)

> ISA-Eth Access Board cannot be housed in 1640


ISA-Eth
FOX.
access board
> Up to 22 Ethernet 10/100 interfaces

ISA-Eth main board

Figure 10: Alcatel 1640 FOX and ISA-Eth

Figure 8: Alcatel 1660 SM with ISA-Eth


.

ISA-Eth module usage in 1650 SMC

> ISA-Eth main board: 1 slot in lower shelf area


(11 x Ethernet ports)

> ISA-Eth access board: 1 slot in upper shelf area


(14 x GE ports) to improve port density.

> ISA-Eth can be housed in any Port slot.

> Up to 75 Ethernet interfaces per shelf.

Figure 9: Alcatel 1650 SMC with ISA-Eth

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ISA-GbE Module These features comply with the following standards:

> IEEE 802.3z (gigabit interfaces)

> ITU G.707 and G.783 (including virtual


General Description
concatenation)
ISA Gigabit Ethernet provides 1000BaseSX/1000BaseLX The traffic received by the 1000baseSX or 1000baseLX
interfaces in OMSN family allowing the interconnection Ethernet interfaces on the ISA-GbE card is mapped into a
of two LANs in a point to point configuration as Figure number of VC-4 SDH containers, more precisely the Giga-
11. Ethernet traffic passing trough 1 x GigabitEthernet
The card acts as a gateway towards the SDH network. physical interface is mapped into a specific VC-4-xv
(x=12,3,4,5,6,7) structure using the standard virtual

Site
concatenation.
Customer SDH/SONET Customer
POP
Site WDM Site
Each Gigabit Ethernet frame is mapped without
Network

modifications into a generic framing procedure frame

Customer
Backbone Network (GFP-ITU-T G.7041).
Network Domain
Domain Such GFP frame is afterwards mapped inside the specific
VC-4-xv according to SDH standard protocol stack.
1000BaseSX or

A
1000BaseLX
B SDH/SONET Network C D In fact the Gigabit Ethernet traffic is transported
transparently by the SDH Network and the ISA Gigabit-
SDH NE SDH NE

Optical Link

Ethernet card inside an OMSN extracts and receives the


1000BaseSX or
1000BaseLX

Gigabit-Ethernet traffic coming from LAN switches or


routers without "terminating" the Gigabit-Ethernet
frames.
Figure 11 - Gigabit-Ethernet Link over SDH
Full rate Gigabit-Ethernet is transported in VC-4-7v and
The card allows to realize the following connections in the
minimum rate Gigabit- Ethernet in single VC-4.
SDH Network:
ISA-GbE GFP standard mapping introduces the rate
> Transport of a Gigabit Ethernet signal between
adaptation feature in the traffic flow, while taking into
two data equipment A and D
account the bursty profile of the Gigabit-Ethernet traffic.
> Guaranteed QoS between end points over the
The rate adaptation relies on the introduction of a buffer
network.
that acts as a bucket which smoothes the bursty Ethernet
> GE signal between A and B and between C and D
traffic.
is transported over standard link (i.e.
The peak rate that the card is able to adsorb without
1000BaseLX or 1000BaseSX fibres)
discarding any Ethernet packet/frame is directly
> the edge nodes map, using a dedicated method,
proportional to the bucket "depth".
the GE signal to a VC4-xv (with virtual
In practice no discarding can be achieved because the ISA
concatenation)
Gigabit-Ethernet card features the mechanism of traffic
> the GE signal is transparently transported by the
Flow control specified in IEE 802.3x.
SDH/SONET network between OMSNs B and C,
using the VC4-xv trail

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Thanks to this control, when the buffer reaches a fixed SDH PORT SDH PORT

ST
RX TX

threshold a particular frame is generated communicating


M-
STM-N
N
TX RX

SDH
to the source (i.e. LAN switch or router) to stop its SDH
VC

Xconnectio

transmission for a certain time period (specified in this


GbE GbE
Access Access
Module Module
frame). In this way frame discarding is avoided. 4 x I/F Backplan
bus SDH MATRIX
4 x I/F
connection

GbE Ethernet GbE


Port Module GFP Port Module
4 x I/F SDH 4 x I/F
Protocol stack
1250 Mb/s
GE
SDH Configurabl
VC-4-XV

Figure 12 - Rate adaptation and buffering


Figure 13 – ISA-GbE Architecture

Architecture
Traffic provisioning
The architecture of the ISA Gigabit-Ethernet card is
represented in . ISA Gigabit-Ethernet is made of two The operator provisioning main options are:

cards : > 1000 BaseSX/LX interface traffic mapped into:

> Main board: card providing hw intelligence and 4 o 1 x GbEGFPVC-4-7v


Ethernet 1000BaseSX/LX interfaces
o 1 x GbEGFPVC-4-6v
> Access-card: expands the number of 1000
o 1 x GbEGFPVC-4-5v
BaseSX/LX ports of the main card with 4
additional 1000 BaseSX/LX interfaces o 1 x GbEGFPVC-4-4v
The Gigabit-Ethernet traffic, specially mapped in the o 1 x GbEGFPVC-4-3v
SDH transport structures, is transmitted from the ISA
o 1 x GbEGFPVC-4-2v
Gigabit-Ethernet plug in module toward the SDH matrix
o 1 x GbEGFPVC-4.
through the back plane (which has 8 x VC-4 equivalent
The operator will always have to provision for each 1000
throughput), then the SDH matrixes connects each VC-4
BaseSX/LX interface:
with the appropriates STM-n port card to the WAN
transmission side. > Type of interface : 1000Base SX or 1000Base LX
by using of SFP (Small Form Factor Pluggable
The bandwidth associated to each 1000BaseSX/LX
with LC connectors), the possibility to mix
interfaces is such that the 8 interfaces within a single slot
1000baseSX and LX interfaces on the same card
ISA Ethernet plug in module, considered all together, (acces card or port card ) is allowed.
cannot transport more than 8 x VC-4 payload equivalent
> Mapping in SDH resources (see above)
bandwidth.
> IEEE 802.3x Flow control activation
Always considering that the back panel is able support a
maximum throughput of 8 x VC-4.

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Equipment Engineering: 1650 SMC


Access Card
This following chapter describes the ISA Gigabit-Ethernet
card traffic and OMSN implementation engineering rules
.

Available slots Port Card

ISA-GbE module usage in 1650 SMC

> ISA-GbE main board: 1 slot in righ shelf area (4 x


GE ports); ISA-GbE access board: 1 slot in left
shelf area (4 x GE ports) to improve port density

> The ISA GbE card can be housed in any Port slot.
Figure 14: ISA-GbE ports in OMSN: SFP
> Up to 24 Gigabit-Ethernet interfaces
modules

Gigabit-Ethernet port card can accepted up to 4 1000Base


SX/LX interfaces SFP

> Gigabit-Ethernet acces card can accepted up to 4


1000 BaseSX/LX interfaces SFP

> Only one Access Card can be connected to a ISA


GbEth Port Card

> Gigabit-Ethernet port card can be in any Port Slot


of the OMSNs.

ISA-GbE access board


ISA-GbE module usage in 1660 SM and
1670 SM

> ISA-GbE main board: 1 slot in lower shelf area (4


x GE ports); ISA-GbE access board: 1 slot in upper
shelf area (4 x GE ports) to improve port density.

> ISA-GbE can be housed in any Port slot.

> Up to 96 Gigabit-Ethernet interfaces per shelf ISA-GbE main board

Figure 15: Alcatel 1670 SM and ISA-GbE

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ISA-GbE module usage in 1640 FOX

> ISA-GbE main board: 1 slot in lower shelf area (4


x GE ports);.

> Access Board cannot be housed in 1640 FOX.

> Up to 8 Gigabit-Ethernet interfaces

1640 FOX

Port Card

Available slots

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