Issue 3 June 2000
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System Introduction
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Overview
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This chapter introduces the Lucent 2000 Product Family and briefly describes the
DDM-2000 FiberReach product.
Lucent 2000 Product Family
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Lucent is focused on a carefully planned and growing product family designed to
provide total network solutions. The 2000 Product Family complies with the
synchronous optical network (SONET) standard and builds on features and
capabilities that customers have found to be useful and successful in networks
such as single-ended maintenance features and product upgrade capabilities.
These upgrade capabilities allow a graceful evolution from today's asynchronous
networks to the world-class intelligent networks of the future. The 2000 Product
Family provides the significant elements of the Lucent Service Net-2000
Architecture.
Lucent's Service Net-2000 Architecture starts with the network as it exists today
and provides real-world solutions to build upon your existing base. It also allows a
graceful evolution from rigid wire centers to a network of flexible nodes. This
network distributes intelligence to where it functions best.
The Service Net-2000 Architecture offers access bandwidth, service on demand,
and self-healing network applications. Access bandwidth offers increased
capacity, giving end users the ability to access any desired service. This increased