METRO CORE TRANSPORT

DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES

The demand for new services in both the residential and business sectors including IPTV, Video-on-Demand, High Definition TV (HDTV), 3D TV and data growth in wireless networks is increasing the need for both TDM and Ethernet capacity. Legacy TDM-based infrastructures are not optimized for data service growth and do not support multi service requirements including oversubscription and aggregated handoff needed to streamline networks and reduce costs.

KEY APPLICATIONS

• Multiservice optical transport for carriers, cable and mobile operators
• Wholesale applications, including carrier’s carrier applications
• Wireline and wireless backhaul (broadband and triple play)
• Enterprise LAN connectivity
• Integration of legacy and NGN services on a single network (fiber relief)
   

SOLUTION

The FSP 3000 Metro Core solution comprises a flexible optical layer supporting an extended range of Ethernet, TDM and SAN network interfaces. It contains reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers and Layer-2 ADM-on-a blade providing scalable packet aggregation and Carrier Ethernet transport. It offers further end-to-end network and service management capability for rapid service turn-up and ongoing Service Level Agreement (SLA) management, across all network elements closely integrated with the carrier’s operational support systems.

FEATURES + BENEFITS

• Flexible optical layer using C/DWDM and ROADM technologies
• All client services supported from 8Mbit/s – 40Gbit/s on a single platform (100Gbit/s in near future)
• Multi-service trans- and muxponder cards supporting combinations of TDM, Ethernet and SAN interfaces.
• Integrated Packet multiplexers supporting aggregation and switching of Ethernet Virtual circuits for efficient handling of Ethernet flows including protection
• Pluggable and tunable interfaces to minimise number of card variants, reducing spares holding and operational costs.
• FSP 150 demarcation for end-to-end services