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As a service provider who wants to deliver triple play services to mass markets, you have a compelling requirement to transition your network cost-effectively and efficiently - to an infrastructure capable of delivering very high-speed broadband in the most economical way to all subscribers. Anything less just wont do the job. Among other things, what you need is a robust network capable of meeting the stringent requirements of Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in the world of bandwidthrich services, such as IP television (IPTV). If, moreover, youre an established player, you want to re-use your existing copper assets to keep costs down, while wanting to converge PSTN and data traffic over a single access network to lower operational expenditures (OPEX) and remain competitive. With the Alcatel-Lucent Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) family, you can meet these challenges from the ground up, taking advantage of this business-driven platform to generate new revenue while maintaining reasonable levels of OPEX.

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Challenges
Now more than ever, you are being challenged to transition to a highspeed multiservice architecture. With the number of content-rich applications and bandwidthintensive services expected to grow at unprecedented rates, you must seriously consider evolving your network toward an all-IP infrastructure capable of handling the mass deployment of triple play services. Your access network also needs to be able to support multiple access flavors and network topologies in order to bring fiber to the most economical point. This will let you expand your network in pace with demand. Whats more, you will have to deliver the QoE required to meet subscribers high expectations. Just as important, you will have to ensure that operational and capital expenditures remain an acceptable proportion of the bottom line. To meet this challenge, your access networks will have to be streamlined by delivering all services voice, video and data - from a single access node. For voice, you will need the assurance that any migration of your existing voice network to a new IP infrastructure enables full feature parity, and a cost-optimized, unitary management platform. And, for video and data, you will need the assurance of complete availability and stringent parameters for superior quality of service to keep subscribers loyal. Of course, deployment options will vary. If youre a greenfield operator, FTTH (Fiber to the Home) with its unlimited bandwidth is probably the path of choice. If, however, youre a brownfield operator wanting to maximize existing assets, what you need is an all-in-one access platform capable of supporting different deployment models in order to reach all subscribers in the most economical way. This will allow you to re-use your existing copper infrastructure to deliver very high-speed broadband services over VDSL2. The good news is that Alcatel-Lucents ISAM family of IP access products has been designed from the start with these challenges in mind. Whether its the mass deployment of very high-speed broadband, multiservice delivery from a single node, or operational excellence for triple play, this world-class portfolio lets your migrate your network costeffectively and safely to the highmargin world of triple play.

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The Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family provides a flexible architecture that enables a targeted rollout of your triple play offer. This allows the initial focus to be on high density areas so that revenues are generated in the shortest possible timeframe. The income can then be used to extend your reach to other locations.

Figure 1. Deploying a Mix of Technologies Allows Operators to Cover All Subscribers in a Cost-Effective Way with Fast Time-to-Market.

Multiple Deployment Strategies to Fully Cover Your Market

As triple play services become more user-centric, as businesses demand more interactive services, and as families simultaneously employ a richer mix of applications, the need for bandwidth grows. The topologies that you employ to meet these demands will naturally vary depending on your subscriber base and density, as well as existing infrastructure. Indeed, you will require a flexible IP/Ethernet-based service delivery architecture capable of enabling multiple deployment strategies, and a means of handling revenue-rich services over fiber and copper within a unified, carrier-grade, IP-based access network. The Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family has been designed to meet multiple market requirements, as your business case evolves. With the ISAM platform, you can mix and match the most appropriate access technologies, take advantage of your existing copper infrastructure for triple play service delivery, while ensuring full feature parity of your legacy voice offering in a packet-based environment. Alcatel-Lucents DSL ISAM family accommodates all ADSL standards, as well as VDSL2, point-to-point fiber, and SHDSL and offers integrated voice features.1

The Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family enables not only DSL but also GPON with the Alcatel-Lucent 7342 ISAM FTTU.

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Introducing the Alcatel-Lucent DSL ISAM Family

The Alcatel-Lucent 7302 ISAM is a full-service central office IP DSLAM designed to deliver full triple play to mass markets, in high-density, urban environments. The Alcatel-Lucent 7330 ISAM Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) is a small remote IP DSLAM for cabinets and small central offices, which addresses the growing need for a deep-fiber solution in residential areas. The Alcatel-Lucent 7356 ISAM Fiber-to-the-Building Remote Expansion Module (FTTB REM) is designed for large-scale FTTB and cabinet deployments, bringing the DSL infrastructure even closer to the subscriber.

Alcatel-Lucent 7302 ISAM

Alcatel-Lucent 7330 ISAM Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN)

Alcatel-Lucent 7356 ISAM Fiber-to-the-Building Remote Expansion Module (FTTB REM)

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Fiber to the Most Economical Point With the advent of triple play services, you will want to exploit your existing copper infrastructure in order to take advantage of this high-margin opportunity. But to assure the quality your subscribers expect, you will need a highspeed DSL infrastructure, plus a platform capable of mass deployment in multiple environments in order to bring fiber to the most economical point.
The DSL ISAM family delivers on both of these requirements cost-effectively and quickly. For example, you can use the: Alcatel-Lucent 7302 ISAM to serve subscribers from the CO in high-density areas;

Alcatel-Lucent 7330 ISAM FTTN to serve subscribers from cabinets in suburban areas; Alcatel-Lucent 7356 ISAM FTTB REM to serve multidwelling units. By distributing Alcatel-Lucent ISAM nodes across your network, closer to the subscriber, you can deliver the high bandwidths necessary to offer triple play services over the existing copper pairs. In greenfield deployments, you can even roll out a fiber-to-the-home network using the AlcatelLucent 7342 ISAM FTTU, another ISAM family member.

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Any Line Card, Any Box To deliver even higher bandwidths from your platform, you can simply insert Alcatel-Lucents first-to-market 48-port VDSL2 line card. And in deployments where you want to deliver very high-speed services over a mix of copper and fiber infrastructure, you can use the Alcatel-Lucent Active Ethernet (Point-to-Point fiber) line card in combination with the VDSL2 line card.

Figure 2. ISAM Family - Multiple Deployment Options

CO 7302 ISAM ETSI 7330 ISAM ETSI 7356 ISAM FTTB REM

7356 ISAM FTTB REM

7302 ISAM ETSI

7330 ISAM ETSI

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Very High-Speed Broadband for Mass Deployments

The triple play challenge that you face today is simple to state, harder to overcome. Thats because you need to build a service-rich, robust environment capable of scaling for mass deployment while also delivering bandwidth-intensive video applications and IPTV alongside current voice and high-speed data services. For this to happen, data rates need to increase significantly from todays norm for DSL of a few Mb/s. But this objective can only be reached with a non-blocking, wirespeed architecture.

Distributed Intelligence To meet these wire-speed requirements, the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family of IP access products employs a distributed architecture both internally and externally. Internal processing is distributed across all line and network termination cards. Not only does this result in optimal usage of the internal capacity, it also means that the overall processing power goes up by adding more line cards when more users are accommodated. This ensures that every subscriber gets the same optimal service quality, no matter how many are connected.

Figure 3. The ISAMs internal distributed processing architecture ensures that every subscriber gets optimal service quality, now matter how many subscribers are connected.
Traditional Access-Node Design Centralized processing Resources shared for all subscribers Bottleneck/hierarchical architecture for aggregation Non-guaranteed bandwidth ISAM Wirespeed Access-Node Design Distributed processing Multi-stage IGMP Processing Guaranteed forwarding Constant line rate for any packet size Zero packet loss Controlled latency

Number of Subscribers Limited Penetration of Triple Play

Number of Subscribers

100% Triple Play All Services to All Subscribers

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The network termination (NT) card acts as an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) proxy, aggregating IGMP messages towards the upstream network. If 100 subscribers change to a channel, the ISAM will only send a single message to the video servers. In a traditional access node, this would result in 100 separate channel change requests, putting a heavy load on servers, especially during peak moments, such as commercial breaks in sporting events. Whats more, IGMP processing on both the NT card and the line termination (LT) card ensures optimal usage of the bandwidth inside the ISAM. Nothing is wasted: if subscribers on one line card are watching a particular channel, thats the only one that is streamed to the line card (and then only to those subscribers). So, the NT streams to specific LTs, and the LT streams to specific subscribers, contributing to the enhanced user experience. Externally, the ISAM family allows you to distribute your access nodes geographically, and to locate them close to the subscriber in order to deliver high bitrates. Each member of the DSL ISAM family offers the same service intelligence, which allows you to deliver the same service quality from CO, FTTN, and FTTB deployments. For example: the Alcatel-Lucent 7302 ISAM for COs (copper, xDSL or VDSL2 from CO); the Alcatel-Lucent 7330 ISAM FTTN for cabinets or small central offices (fiber from CO to cabinet, then copper to subscribers, xDSL or VDSL2); and the Alcatel-Lucent 7356 ISAM FTTB REM for MDU deployments (fiber from cabinet to building basement, copper VDSL2 inside the building). As illustrated in Figure 1, the Alcatel-Lucent 7302 ISAM can function as a CO service hub. It is not simply a traffic facilitator, but also serves as a service aggregator to subtend remote units, other COs, cabinets,

or collocated DSLAMs. Optical Ethernet technology enables subtending over long distances and the service hubs provide multiple levels of subtending and cascading. These features allow a single platform to aggregate up to 16,000 subscribers.

Wire-Speed Delivery The Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family guarantees 100 percent delivery of triple play services to all subscribers. Wire-speed forwarding of all packets eliminates packet loss and controls latency.
With the Alcatel-Lucent DSL ISAM platform, the recommended minimum data rate of 20 Mb/s is achieved over copper using ADSL2+ or VDSL2 line cards on the Alcatel-Lucent 7302 ISAM, 7330 ISAM FTTN, and 7356 ISAM FTTB REM.

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Multiservice Access
Minimize Cost, Maximize Performance IP/Ethernet technology is at the core of the AlcatelLucent ISAM family. It is capable of aggregating different services from IP-enabled line cards at the Gigabit Ethernet core, including legacy POTS and ISDN subscriber interfaces. This approach ensures minimal delay for voice, minimal cost regardless of the service mix, the same operation for any service, and pure IP/VLAN QoS control - end to end.
Equally important, the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family delivers one access node for all services whether its IPTV, mobile backhaul, high speed and symmetrical business services. All services run from a single multiservice IP/ Ethernet access node. Furthermore, you can manage all services with one network management system, which is fully compatible with every product in the AlcatelLucent ASAM/ISAM broadband portfolio. These include legacy DSL lines deployed from the AlcatelLucent 7300/7301 Advanced Services Access Manager (ASAM), as well as the new Alcatel-Lucent ISAM platforms. The result is a significant reduction in OPEX.

Unsurpassed Quality of Experience Even better, your subscribers will have an unsurpassed IPTV experience. Our IGMP support and distributed IGMP offer more and instant channel changes (<200 ms).

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Alcatel-Lucents aggregation network can also deliver business services on top of the residential services infrastructure, maximizing ROI. In fact, the same infrastructure delivers residential triple play services, nextgeneration network multimedia/VoIP applications, as well as managed enterprise services using SHDSL.bis.

nodes. In addition, a high-stability clock and synchronization support ensure high-quality voice services, while providing a cost-effective synchronization solution for mobile backhaul and leased lines. The Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family with integrated voice support is also the first on the market to offer feature parity from CO and cabinets, allowing cost-effective deployment of triple play services by combining voice, data, and video services on a single IP access platform.

Invest Once, Reap Twice With the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family, you get a network ready for NGN and VoIP subscriber lines. So, you neednt invest twice: once for voice migration and again for broadband services. By migrating the voice access network with the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family with integrated voice features, you create a broadband access footprint that can be easily leveraged at the right time. To ensure maximum performance and quality, the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family also distributes the line termination cards in access nodes, and optimizes OPEX, using shared VoIP gateways in central access

One Management System The ISAM family members in an access network are managed by a single management system - the Alcatel-Lucent Access Management System. The platforms allows you to manage a mixed network of access nodes and remote products from a single management system, greatly facilitating the rapid introduction of new or additional ISAM products.

Operational Excellence
New Services, New Requirements With the introduction of highbandwidth services, your DSL access network will be pushed to its limit. You will need to ensure triple play bandwidth and a carriergrade platform that is capable of handling the increased complexity of triple play operations. In the past, services such as high-speed Internet (HSI) access did not make excessive demands on your network. But with IPTV over DSL, on-screen errors will be immediately visible to lowtolerance subscribers, leading to increased complaints and operational costs, and higher customer churn. As a result, you need to support video-grade DSL, while being able to scale your triple play network for mass deployment without impacting quality. Alcatel-Lucent StableDSL Having deployed 143 million lines and enjoying 20 years of DSL experience, Alcatel-Lucents product portfolio has been perfected to address the above mentioned requirements.
The ISAMs DSL line cards are designed to deliver a stable service while maximizing the available bandwidth. For example, AlcatelLucents DSLAMs offer features that ensure line performance in mixed CO/FTTN/FTTB or mixed ADSL/ VDSL2 deployments, and support key functionality for line diagnosis and analysis. Of course, Alcatel-Lucent keeps innovating and evolving its StableDSL solutions. For example, AlcatelLucent invented two technologies (Virtual Noise for VDSL and Artificial Noise for ADSL) that address cross-talk on DSL lines the major source of line stability issues. These technologies allow you to stabilize as much as 60 percent of problem lines, allowing you to use these lines for revenue-generating triple play services and to reduce the operational cost involved with handling problem lines. Alcatel-Lucent StableDSL is not limited to the DSL access nodes. It also includes the Alcatel-Lucent 5530 Network Analyzer (NA), which provides automated line diagnosis and line management functionality to help you keep OPEX under control. The Network Analyzer offers wire-fault detection, network-wide line classification and analysis, and lets you manage subscribers proactively. The Network Analyzer also offers Dynamic Line Management, which automatically selects the optimal profile for each line. This guarantees that each line always offers the optimal performance, reducing customer complaints, helpdesk costs, and customer churn.

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Current Analysis ranked the ISAM familys video support outstanding, giving it the maximum score for delivering unsurpassed video quality to all subscribers.

Reduction of OPEX An equally critical component of Alcatel-Lucents commitment to operational excellence for triple play is its CPE (customer premises equipment) Interop Program. By testing the interoperability of the ISAM platform with over 300 CPE devices from more than 40 partners, Alcatel-Lucent gives you its assurance that virtually all DSL and VoIP phone equipment will work with this platform. This translates into less OPEX with fewer truck rolls and deployment of staff.
But if you do encounter problems in the field, you can keep OPEX at reasonable levels with the Alcatel-Lucent Digital Home Care Solution (DHCS). The solution is designed to reduce the cost of customer support as subscribers increasingly install more complex, triple play devices in the home environment.

By addressing the mass deployment challenge of managing home networks, triple play services and customer support interactions for all stages of services deployment with much automation, advanced troubled shooting, and customer self-management, the AlcatelLucent DHCS means fewer calls to your help desk, and thus lower OPEX. Furthermore, Alcatel-Lucents consultancy teams are ready to assist you with the introduction of new technologies and the rollout of new services. Theyll make sure you get the most out of your network while keeping OPEX down.

Alcatel-Lucents innovative architecture ensures the robust delivery of demanding services, such as multi-channel TV applications (Picture-in-Picture, Channel Mosaic, Multi Angle), Pay-per-View/ Videoon-Demand, and other services such as MyOwnTV/ Personal TV, Amigo TV/Community TV and Interactive TV. In sum, the advanced design concept of the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family, the network intelligence and optimized resources are able to support all foreseeable broadband services and applications.

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Business-Driven Technical Superiority

The Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family is distinguished by a bottom-line approach to product development. Features and benefits translate directly into reduced OPEX and higher revenue.

MULTI-DEPLOyMENT STRATEgIES FEATURES- BENEFITS

MULTISERvICE CAPABILITy FEATURES- BENEFITS

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE FEATURES- BENEFITS

One family addresses all deployment models: CO, FTTN, FTTB, FTTU Same equipment practice, same service intelligence, and same management system for (mixed) DSL and p2p fiber deployments Full feature parity across the ISAM family means that the same service quality can be delivered from any line, any box, any deployment model. ISAMs self-aggregation capabilities and hosted concept for the Alcatel-Lucent 7356 ISAM FTTB REM facilitates large-scale mixed deployments.

Best-in-class video support. Optimal IPTV quality for all subscribers results in higher service take-up and lower churn Video/voice/data delivery from a single IP access node, minimizes OPEX for voice modernization. Critical clock support for timing-sensitive applications such as mobile backhaul and business services. Mixing and matching of line cards and splitters enables any service to be delivered from any node; streamlines the access network infrastructure and operations.

Full feature parity across all ISAM family products facilitates training, stock management, and operations. Unified management system for all members of the ISAM Family simplifies deployments and reduces OPEX. StableDSL technologies offer unprecedented DSL stability, resulting in less customer complaints, resulting in lower OPEX and higher ARPU. Dynamic Line Management and Wire Fault Detection through full integration with the Alcatel-Lucent 5526 Network Analyzer facilitates troubleshooting and line optimization, reducing OPEX.

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New Delivery Model New Security Challenges

As you prepare your network for triple play services, you will need to ensure that your network is as secure as possible. Because triple play networks are based on Internet standards and technologies, your brand new services, including IPTV, may be vulnerable to content theft and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. To respond to this challenge, the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family enables airtight security across the access, aggregation and edge networks. This gives you the mechanisms to guarantee subscribers the requisite quality of experience (QoE). In addition, the ISAM family complements the security features provided by other network equipment such as IP edge routers, Ethernet switches, firewalls and intrusion prevention systems.

Bidirectional Protection As an access node, the AlcatelLucent ISAM platform terminates the DSL physical layer towards Ethernet/IP MANs. It can also make a direct termination on IP networks, or go directly towards IP networks. In this respect, the ISAM platform terminates the physical layer from the subscribers perspective and interoperates with high-speed links in your network. As a result, the ISAM platform has to shield both the access networks and those beyond it (MANs and IP networks). This is ensured by security mechanisms including, secure MAC learning, IP anti-spoofing, network control traffic filtering and rate limiting.

Limit Access to valid Subscribers Many malicious attacks, especially DoS flooding attacks, rely on address spoofing techniques. For example, bogus packets with invalid MAC or IP source addresses are often used to conceal the real origin of the attack, thereby impeding filtering and tracking mechanisms.
To minimize this problem, the ISAM platform incorporates mechanisms that use forwarding modes to detect and filter out bogus packets. With these mechanisms, unwanted traffic from malicious subscribers is dropped in the access node. All traffic is therefore traceable to its origin, easing the process of forensic security while ensuring that access is only enabled for valid subscribers. Finally, the ISAM platform only streams content to authorized subscribers. The content is encoded but is only physically delivered to paid-up subscribers. Unlike analog pay-perview (PPV), its impossible to obtain content via an illegal decoder.

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The Alcatel-Lucent Difference

Preparing your network for triple play services is a major challenge. Theres no point in disguising the fact that you will need to make significant investments in order to deliver very high-speed broadband services over the access network. Thats why Alcatel-Lucent developed the ISAM family the industrys first IP access platform. With multiple deployment options, you can evolve your network - cost-effectively and efficiently - as your business case grows. You can also reduce OPEX with multiservice deployment from a single access node, enable a smooth transition of POTS-based services to NGN with full feature parity, as well as maintain stringent parameters for QoS and security so critical for the delivery of triple play services.
Alcatel-Lucent is the world leader in broadband access. The company shipped its first ADSL equipment in 1996 and, since then, has delivered more than 143 million DSL lines around the world. Building on this core competence, Alcatel-Lucent became the first company to develop broadband access platforms. The Alcatel-Lucent DSL ISAM platform continues to build on this core competence. As such, the platform is the latest in a long line of innovative developments, and has been delivered to more than 140 service providers around the world.

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