PARIS, March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is to address
the growing needs of service providers and large enterprises in
coping with ever-increasing demand for high-bandwidth data traffic
in metro and data center networks by expanding its portfolio of
agile optical networking technologies.
As Enterprises and consumers embrace the promise of cloud
services for content and applications, the metro network is coming
under increasing pressure from massive traffic growth as well as
changing traffic patterns. This is driving fundamental
architectural changes in an attempt to optimize network flexibility
and economics for service providers and their enterprise and
consumer customers.
Alcatel-Lucent is extending its successful 1830 Photonic Service
Switch (PSS) optical transport platform – to date in use by more
than 500 customers worldwide – with the addition of new family
members designed with a small form factor specifically for
deployment in metro networks. These flexible optical networking
units will allow operators and enterprises to scale their network
capacity with any mix of services as traffic increases.
The new platforms support communications network services such
as access aggregation, content delivery, and mobile backhaul to
meet the needs of service providers. In addition, the
multi-functional technology supports the network services needed by
large enterprises, including data center interconnectivity and wide
area networking.
The new 1830 PSS-4, 1830 PSS-8 and 1830 PSS-16 also extend
Alcatel-Lucent's cloud-optimized metro portfolio – designed to meet
the next generation of cloud-based customer demand by delivering
agility, scale and efficiency across metro networks. These
platforms support any mix of high-performance packet, optical and
photonic services. 'No compromise distributed switching' and the
ability to smoothly scale allow operators and enterprises to 'pay
as you grow', easily adding capacity to meet demand.
The 1830 PSS Cloud-Optimized Metro platforms address the future
needs of metro networks, which are expected to see 560% growth in
traffic by 2017, according to a study by Bell Labs. In its most recent optical networking
market share and forecast report*, Infonetics Research (a part of
IHS, Inc.) estimates that metro WDM investment will be $35 billion during the next five years.
Alcatel-Lucent's 1830 PSS Cloud-Optimized Metro Platforms
offer:
- 'No-compromise distributed switching' means operators can
right-size their capacity service to meet traffic demand at any
time, taking advantage of 'pay as you grow' scaling as traffic
increases.
- Switching flexibility, supporting any mix of packet, optical
transport network and photonic services as well as the intelligence
to dynamically reconfigure network resources and rapidly deploy
services to meet demand.
- Double the capacity of optical metro solutions available in the
industry today with platforms up to 50% smaller and delivering up
to 40% power savings.
- Smooth capacity scaling from 400Gbps to 1.6Tbps.
- Slot-to-slot card interconnectivity offering higher performance
and capacity while supporting any mix of 10G, 100G and 200G-based
services.
- Can be deployed further into the metro network in
space-constrained dense urban business districts and data
centers.
- SDN enabled to support application-driven, dynamic
service instantiation
The Alcatel-Lucent 1830 PSS family uses the 400G Photonic
Services Engine to dramatically boost the performance of today's
100G networks and lay the foundation for 400G transport in the
future. To-date Alcatel-Lucent has shipped more than 25,000 100G
units across the globe.
Alcatel-Lucent will present the capabilities of its 1830 PSS
Cloud-Optimized Metro Platforms as well as its Wavelength Routing
technologies on booth #2101 in the Los
Angeles Convention Center at The Optical Fiber Communication
Conference and Exposition 2015.
Quotes:
Andrew Schmitt, Principal
Analyst, Carrier Transport Networking, Infonetics Research (a part
of IHS, Inc.), said: "After spending the last few years
renovating their core networks for 100G, operators are now moving
to upgrade their metro networks. This is the single largest market
opportunity and we estimate metro WDM investment will be
$35 billion during the next five
years. Alcatel-Lucent positioned itself for this opportunity by
offering support for photonics, OTN and packet switched services in
a single metro platform, a feature that in our research we find
operators prefer in the metro."
Sam Bucci, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Terrestrial Optics, Alcatel-Lucent,
said: "As traffic continues to grow, operators and enterprises
need to deploy optical transport switches specifically tuned for
metro applications. By optimizing our 1830 PSS for the metro
environment, we are able to offer solutions that are right-sized to
help meet transport demand now at low initial cost, with the right
scale and switching flexibility, allowing them to grow capacity and
deliver services rapidly as demand grows."
*Infonetics Research: 4Q14-Optical-Network-H/W-Market-Forecast.
March 2, 2015
Additional Resources
- Blog: "The 3 'musts' of metro network transport platforms" –
http://www2.alcatel-lucent.com/techzine/3-musts-metro-network-transport-platforms/
- Podcast: "What happens in the metro stays in the metro" -
https://youtu.be/flSVaYhS1Xc?list=PL36CDE5139980E576
- Bell Labs Study: "Metro Network
Traffic Growth: An Architecture Impact Study" -
http://resources.alcatel-lucent.com/asset/171568
- Infographic: "Release the Pressure on Metro Networks" -
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/solutions/cloud-optimized-metro/infographic
- Metro-Optimized 1830 PSS images (flickr) –
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alcatel-lucent/sets/72157651234514616/with/16786531842/
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU)
Alcatel-Lucent is the leading IP
networking, ultra-broadband access and cloud technology specialist.
We are dedicated to making global communications more innovative,
sustainable and accessible for people, businesses and governments
worldwide. Our mission is to invent and deliver trusted networks to
help our customers unleash their value. Every success has its
network.
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