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Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) has announced extensive enhancements to its IP service routing portfolio. The company implemented these enhancements in order to help operators around the world meet the demand for higher bandwidth and scale, a richer service mix, reduced cost and increased availability.

 

The 7750 Service Router (SR) and the 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS) have been enhanced to deliver Terabit performance in order to provide the bandwidth, scale and service awareness required to support the growing market for more personalized, broadband offerings such as IPTV, WebTV, Virtual Private Networks and 3G/4G mobile.

 

These enhancements leverage Alcatel-Lucent’s unique new FP2 chipset which delivers sophisticated and optimized network processing and traffic management at speeds up to 100 Gb/s. Upgrades include more than double the density of Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and supporting up to 10 times the number of services per router.

The FP2 chipset is designed to provide a clear path to 100 Gigabit Ethernet, which can vastly improve Return on Investment (ROI) versus other edge routers which currently use much lower performing and lower scale 10 Gb/s Network Processors. 

 

“Telstra’s (News - Alert) wireline transformation to implement a common IP core network is delivering multiple services at lower costs and faster speeds with improved network reliability. This enables us to provide our customers with access to more scaleable and advanced broadband services, offering 99.999 per cent reliability,” said Greg Winn, Telstra Chief Operations Officer, in a Thursday statement.

 

Winn continued: “Alcatel-Lucent’s technology is a part of our Telstra Next IP™ network and the latest upgrades will enable Telstra to continue to innovate and grow our broadband service offerings.”

The Terabit enhancements to the Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS service routing portfolio address three fundamental service provider requirements for IP network transformation, including more speed, more services and more availability.

 

Since 2004, Alcatel-Lucent has shipped more than 20,000 IP/MPLS systems, resulting in an installed base of more than 200 service provider customers in more than 90 countries.

 

The new portfolio enhancements address a Service Provider Router and Metro Ethernet Switch market with a forecasted CAPEX of more than USD 50 billion between 2006 and 2010.

 

“We’ve established a solid history of innovation and reliability in IP/MPLS platforms, software and services, which has resulted in new revenue opportunities for our customers,” said Basil Alwan, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP business, in Thursday’s statement.

 

Alwan added: “This is a transformative period in our industry and, since 2003, we’ve led the way with a transformative service-aware and application-aware approach to IP/MPLS routing. With these seamless Terabit service routing upgrades, massive service scaling and integration as well as best-in-class high availability, we’re continuing to deliver on this commitment to our customers.”

Routing requirements continue to change and in order to remain competitive, vendors must be able to anticipate trends and take a proactive approach to releases to ensure that companies not only have the functionality that they need, but also that these solutions are flexible and scalable to meet the changing demands within the enterprise.

 

 

Susan J. Campbell is a contributing editor for TMCnet and has also written for eastbiz.com. To read more of Susan’s articles, please visit her columnist page.