Rev 2.

A-2200
Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch

Nokia Siemens Networks A-2200 Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch is part of

the complete NSN end-to-end packet transport solution the comprises
access, aggregation core and management.
A-2200 support a diverse selection of services and applications which
include: Enterprise, Mobile Backhaul and Converged networks.
A-2200 is a ,modular multi-service switch, supporting both Ethernet and
legacy TDM applications.
This 1.5U MEF-certified device is equipped with two redundant hotswappable AC or DC power supplies, redundant fans and Dry Contact
alarm interface for alarm management.
A-2200 is full managed by the ASPEN management system offering
end-to-end management solution and enables efficient point & click
configuration, SLA measurement, traffic engineering and network
resource allocation.

Features:
Carrier-class features such as
redundant power supplies, N+1 fan
redundancy and dry contact
Multi-service enabled, including ELine, E-LAN, E-Tree, and CES
services, on a single device
CES support including E1/T1, DS3,
OC3/STM-1 with 1+1 APS protection
High Bandwidth & Capacity 4x1G
uplink and up to 20x1G access ports
Support for Hard QoS such as CIR,
EIR, H-QoS, Shaping and WRR
Support for 50ms carrier-class
protection, Multi failure protection
and In-Service-SW-Upgrade (ISSU).
High performance and very low
delay and jitter
Standard OAM mechanism and
protocol support (IEEE802.1ag,
Y.1731)

With the rapid increase in the need

for high bandwidth, and the equally
impressive increase in the
performance of Ethernet within the
LAN environment, the demand for
metro network performance has
never been greater.
The biggest challenge for service

providers of all types is to deliver

not only cost-effective and scalable
performance, but also, and more
importantly, a Carrier Ethernet
solution that facilitates new
services, rapid and easy
provisioning and dramatically
reduced operational costs.

End-to-End Carrier Ethernet Solution

A-1180

A-2200

A-2200
A-210

MX 480

A-210

IP/MPLS

MX 960

A-2200
BSC

BTS

NB
E1

A-1200

A-2200

STM-1

A-2200

Eth

RNC

Eth

Demarc

Edge
Aggregation
Core
ASPEN SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Product Overview
Nokia Siemens Networks A-2200
complements the A-2000 series product
line by adding extended switching
capacity for the most mission critical
applications and for providing Ethernet
services from Carrier Central Offices,
PoPs and Collocation Cages. It is a one
and half rack-unit high, compact Carrier
Ethernet Edge Switch that

delivers cost-effective 10/100 Ethernet,

Gigabit Ethernet and CES/TDM access
interfaces for end customers. All the
access modules are hot swappable. It
has four Gigabit Ethernet SFP/SSFpluggable ports for connectivity to the
Carrier Ethernet core network.
Redundant load-sharing AC and DC
power are also hot swappable and field
Replaceable Fan Units.

Functions
Hard QoS supporting CIR, EIR
and priority with 64Kbps and
1Mbps granularity
Traffic Shaping and
Connection Admission Control
(CAC), ensuring end-to-end
bandwidth guarantee
SONET-like 50ms protection
using Fast Reroute protocol that
is much faster and more
scalable than Spanning Tree or
Rapid Spanning Tree protocol
Strong and comprehensive
OAM functions including fast
and pinpoint fault detection,
alarm-service correlation,
Ethernet loop-backs, as well as
round-trip delay, jitter and
packet loss measurement

Wire-speed performance
Very low delay and jitter
Flexible and intelligent
customer traffic mapping
mechanisms that allows multiservices on one access
interface
Up to 2,000 protected
connections per device
Advanced synchronization
including ACR (Adaptive Clock
Recovery), Synchronous
Ethernet and IEEE1588V2
Strong management
capability

The A-2200 can be deployed as highend CPE working with the Nokia
Siemens Networks A-4000 and A-8000
series of Carrier Ethernet Core
Switches and Nokia Siemens Networks
ASPEN management system. In
addition, the A-2200 can be used as an
aggregation switch working together
with the A-210 or A-1180 demarcation
device to provide a very cost-effective
access solution. The A-2200 will also
be part of the NSN CET NextGeneration solution and fully
interoperate with CET NG switches.
Using these products in conjunction,
carriers and service providers can
construct a powerful Metro
infrastructure with high performance
and efficiency, designed to quickly
deliver profitable communication
services.
The A-2200 features 8Gbps nonblocking switching capacity. It offers up
to 2,000 protected simultaneous
connections supporting point-to-point,
point-to-multipoint and multipoint-tomultipoint services. Customer traffic can
be mapped to connections using
multiple and flexible rules from layer 1
(port-based) up to layer 3 (IP Address,
Protocol Type and DSCP bits).

Applications
Mobile Backhauling applications
A-2200 can be used as 2G/3G
aggregator in tail sites, as tail site
aggregator at Hub sites and as scalable
aggregator at MWR Edge sites.
The A-2200 as a MBH solutions offers:
TDM and Ethernet interfaces
supporting 2/3G and future LTE.
Support of E1, T1, DS-3, OC-3/STM-1
Advanced synchronization
mechanisms (ACR, SyncE,
IEEE1588V2)
QOS assurances for delay, jitter and
loss
Shaping per port
Standard OAM mechanisms and
protocols
APS 1+1 protection of STM-1/OC-3
ASPEN E2E Management

MEF-Compliant Service Attributes

The A-2200 delivers flexible, affordable
Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
access interfaces, supporting point-topoint, point-to-multipoint and multipointto-multipoint services. Customer traffic
can be mapped to connections using
any combination of rules from layer 1 to
layer 3.
The A-2200 fully supports SLAs defined
by MEF service definitions including:
Committed Information Rate (CIR)
Excess Information Rate (EIR)
Priority for bounded delay and jitter
Protection levels (sub-10sec or sub50ms)
In addition to pure Ethernet
connectivity, service providers can
migrate legacy TDM traffic onto their
Carrier Ethernet network using Nokia
Siemens Networks Circuit Emulation
Services modules that provide ITU-T
compliant E1/T1, E3/T3 and STM1/OC-3 interfaces.

Multi-service Aggregator in Central

Office (CO)
Suitable for CO and street cabinet
deployment with Dry Contact alarm
interface, the A-2200 can be used in
the CO to aggregate multiple business
customers and deliver flexible,
affordable E-Line, E-LAN and E-Tree
Ethernet services as well as TDM
services.
Rich set of interfaces with high port
density allows aggregating many
customers of various types
A complete solution working with
A-1180 and A-210 demarcation
devices, providing end-to-end
management and OAM functions
Single-strand fiber interfaces,
reducing fiber cost almost by half
Support for TDM grooming functions
(T1/E1 to DS3 & OC-3/STM-1), helping
keep the existing TDM-based services
unchanged while providing new
Ethernet services.

Multi-service CPE with High

Service Availability for Business
Customers
The A-2200 boasts a broad range of
intelligent network services, featuring
granular Quality of Service (QoS) and
sub-50ms protection that enable
service providers to rapidly provision
secure Ethernet access with fully MEFcompliant Service Level Agreements
(SLAs).
High revenues from multi-services
Fast trouble-shooting with the help of
strong OAM functions
Flexible customer traffic mapping
schemes
Support for single-strand fiber,
reducing fiber cost
Ease of management and service
provisioning

Full Protection and Reliability

The A-2200 has been designed to
deliver the SONET-like reliability that
carriers demand, but with the price,
performance and scalability of Carrier
Ethernet. The protection mechanism of
the A-2200 is similar to MPLS Fast
Reroute, and thus can achieve sub50ms fail-over time.
It also offers an end-to-end protection
mechanism that protects against any
types of failure within sub-10seconds,
according to service profiles, and in
addition, Multi-Failure protection and InService-SW-Upgrade

Industry-Leading Service Provisioning

and Management Solution Nokia
Siemens Networks Service Provisioning
for Ethernet
Nokia Siemens Networks ASPEN
solution is the industrys simplest
network management and service
management platform for managing
Carrier Ethernet services. ASPEN
delivers enhanced service management
capabilities for rapid service
provisioning, comprehensive network
and element management,
performance and fault management,
and seamless integration with existing
OSS applications. ASPEN software
allows carriers and service providers to
reliably and cost-effectively manage all
elements of the network to deliver the
most reliable, scalable and costeffective Ethernet service offerings.
Using a multi-layered modular
architecture, ASPEN software supports
large, dynamic carrier-class networks
and is ideal for minimizing hardware
deployment time, service planning,
provisioning and monitoring.

Advanced QoS mechanisms

The A-2200 offers a variety of tools for
QoS and SLA:
Hard QoS supporting CIR, EIR and
priority
Traffic Shaping and Connection
Admission Control (CAC)
WFQ with Strict priority
Shaper per port and per service
Policing and DiffServ.

A-2200 Specifications
Network Ports

Standards
IETF Standards
RFC 768
RFC 1907
RFC 783
RFC 2030
RFC 791
RFC 2236
RFC 792
RFC 2863
RFC 793
RFC 2668
RFC 826
RFC 2737
RFC 854
RFC 2495
RFC 1157
RFC 4252
RFC 1256
RFC 4253
IETF Standards:
MIB Support
IanaifType
RFC 2737
RFC 2096
RFC 2863
RFC 2668
RFC 2495
RFC 1213
RFC 2558
Metro Ethernet Forum
Standards
MEF 9
MEF 8
MEF 14
IEEE 802 Standards
IEEE 802.3
IEEE 802.3u
IEEE 802.3z
IEEE 802.3ad
IEEE 802.1p
IEEE 802.1D
IEEE 802.1Q
IEEE 802.1ad
IEEE 802.1ag
IEEE 802.1ah
IEEE 802.1w/s
All specifications are subject to change.

Access ports - Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-X ports, accommodating hotswappable SFP/SSF transceivers with digital diagnostic
monitoring (DDM) support, LC connector:
1000Base-SX Multi-mode (500m)
1000Base-LX Single-mode (10km)
1000Base-LH Single-mode (70km)
1000Base-LH Single-mode (120km)
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM)
interfaces (70km, 100km)
Fast Ethernet 10/100/1000 Base-TX ports, RJ-45
connectors
Gigabit Ethernet 100/1000Base-X ports, accommodating hotswappable SFP transceivers, SC connector:
1000Base-SX Multi-mode (500m)
1000Base-LX Single-mode (10km)
1000Base-LH Single-mode (70km)
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM)
interfaces (50km, 100km)

Access ports - TDM

E1/T1 ports, RJ-45 connectors

DS3 ports, mini DIN connectors
STM-1/OC-3 ports, accommodating SFP transceivers, LC
connectors:
STM-1/OC-3 SFP Transceiver, 2km, 1310nm, MMF
STM-1/OC-3 SFP Transceiver, 15km, 1310nm, SMF
STM-1/OC-3 SFP Transceiver, 40km, 1310nm, SM
STM-1/OC-3 SFP Transceiver, 80km, 1550nm, SMF

Access modules

10 Port 100/1000Base-FX SFP

8 Port 10/100/1000Base-TX copper
8 port T1/E1 CES
16 port T1/E1 CES
4 port DS3 Clear Channel [Future]
4 port OC-3/STM-1 [Future]

Regulatory

NEBS LEVEL 3 In future release

[ GR-1089, GR-63 in future release]
RoHS
EMC
USA & Canada: FCC 47 CFR part 15 Subpart B, Class B
Europe: EN 300-386-2, Class B, EN 201 468,
EN 300 132-2, EN 300 132-3
Japan: VCCI, Class B In future release

Safety

USA: UL 60950
Europe: EN 60950

Management

ASPEN
RS-232 Administration Console: Industry-standard
Command Line Interface (CLI )
Out-of-band management via 10/100Base-TX port
In-band management of entire network via Gigabit Ethernet
port
Dedicated management VLAN
Supports multiple NMS stations
SNMP
Telnet, Modem
Security RADIUS, SSH

Power Consumption

Chassis + Fan Tray 51.5W

10 Port Base-FX SFP 9.05W
8 Port Base-TX copper 9.33W
16 port T1/E1 CES + TIC 14W
4 port DS3 CES 14W
4 port OC3 CES 24W

Dimensions

442 X 66.5 X 230 mm (WxHXD)

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