BEIJING, June 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Carriers in
China have been aggressively
deploying 100G-capable OTN switching networks over the last few
years, and now its largest carrier is poised to launch a new
network to support government/enterprise leased-line services that
will leverage the international standard for dynamically adjusting
OTN connection bandwidth. As the only commercial silicon and
software supplier supporting the Hitless Adjustment of ODUflex
(HAO) specifications, Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), via
its Microsemi subsidiary, provided a benchmark solution based on
its DIGI OTN processor family that was key in enabling China
Mobile to complete multi-vendor interoperability tests. China
Mobile is now able to launch the world's first bandwidth-on-demand
leased-line services offering, providing government and enterprise
customers the flexibility to adjust their required network
bandwidth in real-time as workloads continue to move to the
cloud.
Microchip's DIGI family of OTN processors enables carriers to
extend OTN from their metro networks to the access layer for use in
delivering leased-line and other high-availability and
bandwidth-guaranteed services to government, enterprise and data
center customers. Each generation of DIGI OTN processors has also
integrated HAO functionality so that carriers can provide customers
the bandwidth they need when they need it. Without HAO, the
bandwidth of the end-to-end connections for delivering these
services is fixed, and to change the bandwidth, the connections
must be torn down, causing traffic disruption. China Mobile used
the DIGI OTN processors to verify technology and software readiness
to support roll out bandwidth-on-demand services at scale with the
support of multiple system vendors whose OTN equipment demonstrated
interoperability.
"China Mobile has deployed bandwidth-on-demand capabilities in
our new Government/Enterprise OTN network to benefit from all the
advantages of flexible bandwidth and services," said Yunbo Li, project manager at China Mobile
Research Institute. "We are the world's first carrier to specify
HAO product interoperability requirements and test specifications
and now, working with Microchip and our ecosystem of equipment
providers, we are pleased to have completed a major step toward
large-scale deploying this technology and paving the way for it to
become part of our new production network operations."
"We applaud China Mobile as the world's first carrier to
complete the necessary interoperability testing to begin a
large-scale deployment of bandwidth-on-demand services enabled by
flexible OTN switching networks," said Babak Samimi, vice president for Microchip's
Communications business unit. "We are proud that our DIGI OTN
processors played a pivotal role in proving the readiness of the
industry ecosystem, and we believe the momentum behind this
technology will now accelerate both in China and around the world, opening a new
chapter for carriers to provide an innovative new class of services
and new revenue streams tied to their enterprise customers'
real-time business demands."
Microchip helped create the HAO specifications, which are
defined in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) G.7044
standard. The company supports this technology through a
released Software Development Kit (SDK) for its DIGI-120G, DIGI-G4
and most recent DIGI-G5 OTN processors.
For additional information, contact a Microchip sales
representative or visit Microchip's Microsemi subsidiary
website.
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