Al-Lu Enhances Mobile Backhauling Solution

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) today announced the launch of the 7705 Service Aggregation Router – Fixed Form Factor (7705 SAR-F) and enhanced operating system software. It’s supposed to respond to operator demand for more bandwidth and scalability at lower operational costs  from core to the cell site.

The 7705 SAR-F enhances a fully managed, complete end-to-end solution for carriers moving from TDM/PDH transport for mobile backhaul to Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS networks. New features and functionality of the single-rack unit 7705 SAR-F include: cost-effective scaling, resiliency/redundancy covering synchronization, uplinks and power feeds as well as extreme temperature-hardened characteristics (-40º C to +65 º C).

The 7705 SAR-F also leverages Alcatel-Lucent’s SR OS software to support new advanced functionality, provide consistent end-to-end operations and network management.

“The one unit aggregation router product category is an important one for many 3G and 4G operators looking to migrate to IP backhaul,” said Patrick Donegan, senior analyst, Heavy Reading. “It enables the cost and performance benefits of IP to be extended out from the core of the network all the way to the cell site.”

Alcatel-Lucent today also announced availability of Release 1.1 of the 7705 SAR family software. Release 1.1 includes an end-to-end synchronous Ethernet capability, which is important as operators make the transition to Ethernet for mobile backhaul in order to fully exploit its cost and bandwidth efficiencies. The new release includes High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) offload enhancements which enable cost-effective and flexible offload using GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation), to complement existing support for MPLS.

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