Optical core switching tops 4 Terabit-per-second.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 5:19PM After the launch of Alcatel-Lucent's 1870 TTS optical core switch, three experts comment.
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Alcatel-Lucent has launched its 1870 Transport Tera Switch (TTS) that has a switch capacity of 4 Terabits-per-second (Tbps). The platform switches and grooms traffic at 1Gbps granularity while supporting lightpaths up to 100Gbps.
“It is designed to address the explosion of traffic in core networks, driven by video and the move to cloud computing among others,” says Alberto Valsecchi, vice president of marketing, optics activities at Alcatel-Lucent.
The 1870 TTS supports next-generation Optical Transport Network (OTN), carrier Ethernet and SONET/SDH protocols, as well as generalized multiprotocol label switching/ automatically switched optical network(GMPLS/ ASON) control plane technology to enable network management and traffic off-load between the IP core and optical layers.
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It [the 1870 TTS] is designed to address the explosion of traffic in core networks"
Alberto Valsecchi, Alcatel-Lucent
