Alcatel-Lucent CDMA2000 Mobile Switching Center

(MSC)
Product Overview
Our Alcatel-Lucent CDMA2000 Mobile Switching Center (MSC) provides operators with unparalleled
freedom in the design and operation of their CDMA voice network with components that are modular,
flexible and highly reliable for high performance operation and scalable cost effective growth. Our solution
complies with open industry standards and as network needs change, evolves with maximum investment
protection, low cost of operation, and high reliability.
The Alcatel-Lucent CDMA2000 MSC is comprised of 3 components
- Alcatel-Lucent 9281 Packet Switch
- Alcatel-Lucent 9290 Mobility Manager
- Alcatel-Lucent 9256 Operations and Management Platform
The CDMA2000 Mobile Switching Center:
Enables platform independence and interoperability across networks
Allows rapid deployment of features across a global network
Promotes economies of scale through common wireless platforms
and provides:
A robust, low footprint solution with a highly scalable capacity of up to 7.5 million BHCA and 4000 cells.
Efficient and cost effective all-IP operation (backhaul, signaling, handoff, and bearer)
Centralized and integrated OA&M with intuitive control, streamlining the way to keep your CDMA network
reliable, secure, efficient, and cost effective.
Support for Integrated HLR or Standalone HLR
99.999% Reliability

The Alcatel-Lucent CDMA2000 Mobile Switching Center delivers greater network efficiencies through
capacity enhancements, lower operating costs and investment protection. Our solution provides a launch
point for the packet core and IMS services vision.
Cost effective, high reliable, end-to-end MSC solution
Separate call control and bearer traffic - 9290 Mobility Manager supports mobility call control and the
9281 Packet Switch supports media gateway and media resource functions WITHsupport for radio
management and vocoding
Integrated BSC lowers OPEX/CAPEX by reducing the number of network elements and utilizing a
centralized vocoder pool
Fully scalable solution enables increased capacity in existing footprint
The modular distributed architecture allows smooth growth in both switching and call processing capacity
Low total cost of ownership - Five 9s reliability built into individual elements and architecture, no
redundant duplicate network elements are needed (i.e. MSC pooling) even for high BHCA systems

 High performance, with extremely low dropped call and call setup failures, through time tested,
sophisticated, efficient call processing algorithms and rich paging features
Supports revenue generating value added services

The modular, distributed architecture of the Alcatel-Lucent CDMA2000 MSC allows smooth growth in
both switching and mobile call control capacity.
A robust, low footprint solution with a highly scalable capacity of up to 7.5 million BHCA and 4000 cells
IP Backhaul, Transcoder Free Operation/Remote Transcoder Operation, IP Soft Handover, SIGTRAN
signaling for efficient and cost effective all-IP operation.
EVRC-B vocoder increases RAN capacity
Centralized and integrated OA&M with easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) for intuitive control,
streamlining the way to keep your wireless network reliable, secure, efficient, and cost effective.
Supports Integrated HLR or Standalone HLR
99.999% Reliability