Learn How to Configure an ALCATEL LUCENT 7450 ESS : Part 1 (Port Config)

First, you need to get into the command line, you can do telnet from the remote site or get your console cable to the device. Let's start, then.

Assuming we have already get into one.

ALU-7450ESS#

to name it we could use "config system name" command like this one :

ALU-7450ESS#config system name ME-TEST
ME-TEST#

Then we have to config ports on it.

ME-TEST#config port 1/1/1
ME-TEST>config>port#description "LINK TO SW TEST" --> you can change this as you like, the port description
ME-TEST>config>port#ethernet ---> depending on your port type, in this case, ethernet
ME-TEST>config>port>ethernet# mode access --> you could change this into access or network
ME-TEST>config>port>ethernet# encap-type dot1q --> user dot1q to allow VLAN config on this port
ME-TEST>config>port>ethernet# mtu 9212
ME-TEST>config>port>ethernet# exit
ME-TEST>config>port# no shutdown --> like routers, this command is used to activate the port.

Then the port should be looked like this :

ME-TEST# show port 1/1/1
=================================================
Ethernet Interface
=================================================
Description        : LINK TO SW TEST
Interface          : 1/1/1                      Oper Speed       : 1 Gbps
Link-level         : Ethernet                   Config Speed     : 1 Gbps
Admin State        : up                         Oper Duplex      : full
Oper State         : up                         Config Duplex    : full
Physical Link      : Yes                        MTU              : 9212
IfIndex            : 35684352                   Hold time up     : 0 seconds
Last State Change  : 06/05/2011 09:36:47        Hold time down   : 0 seconds
Last Cleared Time  : N/A

Configured Mode    : access                    Encap Type       : 802.1q
Dot1Q Ethertype    : 0x8100                     QinQ Ethertype   : 0x8100

Notice that things that we configured before are shown in bold in the above. In VC-Switching, port is used
for the sap along with the VLAN that will be used.

ABOUT ALCATEL-LUCENT ESS 7450

"The Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS is a high-performance platform providing Carrier Ethernet service aggregation with industry-leading throughput, densities, and reliability. Enabling a broad service mix and a graceful migration to a converged service environment, the 7450 ESS is the platform of choice to enable wide-scale Carrier Ethernet adoption, implementation, and transformation.
The 7450 ESS integrates the scalability, resiliency and predictability of MPLS along with the performance and economics of Ethernet, to enable a metro-wide, converged packet aggregation infrastructure using Carrier Ethernet to deliver next-generation services. With the flexibility to support advanced Ethernet and IP services, the MEF-certified Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS allows customers to evolve their networks forward to create revenue expansion opportunities while simultaneously protecting investments made previously.
Supporting service speeds up to 100 Gb/s with no sacrifice in performance with advanced features fully enabled, the 7450 ESS scales Carrier Ethernet metros from 10 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s infrastructures with a clear path to 400 Gb/s. Additionally, with the industry’s most advanced PBB/VPLS implementation, customers have the ability to flexibly deploy either native Carrier Ethernet or MPLS-based services and functions in any combination, as their network plans require."
 
Taken From : http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

In several network providers in my country, Indonesia, have already implemented it for their metro-ethernet services. This device, or should I say, router, is used for their vc-switching things which will convert L2 VLAN from switches / routers and bind a vc-tag to it. And in the end, it uses the vc-tag for switching.

We'll learn it on the next post.

Hello World

Test Post.

- Arif P. Zulkarnain