Service Router Brochure

5Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router
The Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR platform
provides purpose-built, highly available
software and hardware architectures that
allow network operators to “right-size” their
service infrastructure buildout. The 7750 SR
provides the necessary built-in services
capabilities and packet processing headroom
to allow service providers to scale service
instances, subscriber count and bandwidth
without incurring exponential capital or
operating expenditures (CAPEX or OPEX).
The critical features and functions that
differentiate the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR
from a typical Internet-era edge router are
the system characteristics (delay/jitter) and
service-related capabilities that were tightly
integrated into the product architecture at
inception.
An Industry First
The challenges that service providers are
facing have evolved from addressing rampant
bandwidth growth for Internet traffic to
enabling cost-optimized and highly resilient
service delivery infrastructures that can scale
and ensure profitability while minimizing
the overall deployment risk in the long run.
Existing Internet-era routers and enterprise
switches were designed five to eight years ago
to handle bandwidth growth for best-effort
traffic. These platforms were not optimized
for new-generation service infrastructure
rollouts, as they are limited by their system
characteristics (delay/jitter, packet re-ordering
and loss) and their inability to scale services
across all dimensions (number of interfaces,
bandwidth, service instances and policies,
performance level, etc.).
Similarly, so-called IP service platforms
have appeared on the market, but they were
designed and optimized for low-speed, best-
effort consumer services (mass-market digital
subscriber line [DSL] for residential service).
They do not have the high-availability,
scalability or service capabilities that will
allow them to cost-effectively enable large-
scale (tens of millions of customers), high-
speed data, voice and video service rollouts.
A New Class of Platform
The change from traditional best-effort Internet
routing and enterprise switching to true service
routing is not an incremental step — it is a
radical advancement that has required a complete
rethinking of the product architecture and design
at inception. This inflection point is where the
Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR has established a
leadership position.