MetroCONNECT: Ethernet Service Delivery

The MetroCONNECT MC12000 Ethernet Service Delivery Platform offers the delivery of Ethernet services with management right onto the customer site. The MetroCONNECT family solution offers interface conversion or LAN extension as well as Ethernet service demarcation, with comprehensive remote management of the standalone Ethernet Demarcation Devices (or EDD's, otherwise known as Network Interface Devices or NID's) on the customer site using 802.3ah OAM or IP management such as SNMP or Telnet. Support for 10M, 100M and Gigabit Ethernet applications as well as Jumbo frames comes as standard across this product range. The MC12000 offers a high density Ethernet Service Delivery solution with fibre or copper distribution from the core network to customer sites. It operates in provider mode generating and terminating OAM frames according to IEEE 802.3ah. With muliple access links deployed resilience can be supported via either G.7042 LCAS, RSTP or 802.3ad link aggregation. In this way MC12000 enables maximum efficiency of use of the core network infrastructure, along with maximum flexibility of service delivery to the customer, whilst retaining management visibility right up to the customer demarcation point. By allowing management visibility onto the customer site it is easy to distinguish between equipment problems, customer site connection problems and last mile service delivery problems and therefore substantial operational savings can result. A wide variety of last mile service delivery types can be supported including: * Ethernet over Fibre via the FCC9000 I/O module 1,4 or 8 fractional E1 or T1 services via the WCC1100, WCC1400 and WCC1800 I/O modules * 1 or 2 fractional E3 or DS3 services via the WCC3100 and WCC3200 I/O modules * SDH STM-1 or Sonet OC-3 services via the WCC5100 I/O module * Serial or HSSI services via the WCC_Serial and LHC1000 I/O modules * Up to 12 LAN extension functions supportedUp to 24 media conversion functions supported * Hot-Swap for all modules & power supplies10/100/1000BaseT RJ45, 100BaseFX or 1000BaseX * Managed E'net Service Delivery to standalone EDDs

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