Ciena Adds Dynamic Wavelength Routing to CN 4200 FlexSelect Platform
Ciena Corporation (news - alert) announced the addition of Dynamic Wavelength Routing capabilities to its CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform, creating a solution that uses a hybrid electrical and optical ROADM design to combine whole and sub-wavelength switching in one platform. Through efficient electrical grooming of services onto each wavelength, the CN 4200 ROADM uses up to 78 percent fewer wavelengths and, for the first time, brings the benefits of reconfigurable optical technology to any service rate down to 155 Mbps.
Combined with the CN 4200’s software-defined FlexiPort technology and Optical Transport Network (OTN) support, the CN 4200 delivers the most flexible ROADM solution for grooming and switching the most amount of traffic on the fewest wavelengths. The platform also cost-effectively scales capacity and degrees of switching based on customer demand and offers service level management across the entire network.
“Due to rapid growth, quality of service sensitivity, and dynamic bandwidth demands, IPTV, VOD, VoIP Ethernet, storage extension, and other advanced services are forcing service providers to increase their metro bandwidth flexibility for responding to unpredictable traffic patterns,” said Jason Marcheck, Principal Optical Infrastructure Analyst at Current Analysis. “Designed to eliminate stranded bandwidth and offer full and subwavelength switching support down to 155 Mbps granularity, Ciena’s hybrid approach to ROADM provides a flexible way to help carriers reduce the costs to plan, groom, switch and reconfigure optical transport.”
Ciena’s CN 4200 is the flagship product of its FlexSelect
Architecture, a standards-based, service-oriented approach to building next-generation network infrastructures. The CN 4200 family of multiservice transport and aggregation platforms is capable of ondemand support for any transport protocol — including SONET/SDH, Ethernet, storage (Fibre Channel, FICON, ESCON) or video—at any speed on any available port using the industry’s first universal line card with individual user-programmable ports.
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Combined with the CN 4200’s software-defined FlexiPort technology and Optical Transport Network (OTN) support, the CN 4200 delivers the most flexible ROADM solution for grooming and switching the most amount of traffic on the fewest wavelengths. The platform also cost-effectively scales capacity and degrees of switching based on customer demand and offers service level management across the entire network.
“Due to rapid growth, quality of service sensitivity, and dynamic bandwidth demands, IPTV, VOD, VoIP Ethernet, storage extension, and other advanced services are forcing service providers to increase their metro bandwidth flexibility for responding to unpredictable traffic patterns,” said Jason Marcheck, Principal Optical Infrastructure Analyst at Current Analysis. “Designed to eliminate stranded bandwidth and offer full and subwavelength switching support down to 155 Mbps granularity, Ciena’s hybrid approach to ROADM provides a flexible way to help carriers reduce the costs to plan, groom, switch and reconfigure optical transport.”
Ciena’s CN 4200 is the flagship product of its FlexSelect
Architecture, a standards-based, service-oriented approach to building next-generation network infrastructures. The CN 4200 family of multiservice transport and aggregation platforms is capable of ondemand support for any transport protocol — including SONET/SDH, Ethernet, storage (Fibre Channel, FICON, ESCON) or video—at any speed on any available port using the industry’s first universal line card with individual user-programmable ports.
http://www.ciena.com
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