Alcatel Introduces 7710 Service Router

Alcatel has announced availability of its 7710 Service Router (SR), a compact, optimized service routing platform with a throughput of 12gbps. With a compact form factor, variety of lower-speed interfaces, and purpose-built high availability, the Alcatel 7710 SR is targeted at mobile operators, service providers with smaller PoPs and emerging markets.

The 7710 SR incorporates all of the strengths of the Alcatel 7750 service router portfolio, including high availability, service richness and QoS features.

The addition of the 7710 SR to Alcatel’s portfolio illustrates its continuing commitment to IP. Alcatel is responsible for the development of the world’s first service router and the first implementation of high availability on a router; it is this combination that enables IP network transformation to support voice, video and data services in an always-on, highly resilient manner. As well, Alcatel delivers integrated IP/MPLS network and service management that makes provisioning and proactive troubleshooting a point-and-click exercise.

Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI) has chosen to deploy the 7710 SR in its international PoPs, including the United States and the United Kingdom, to carry its international traffic.

“TNZI selected the 7710 SR to complement the base of 7750 SRs for its international network because it offered us a scaled-down footprint, interface density and interface variety to meet our needs whilst retaining the feature parity and resiliency of the 7750 SR,” said Geoff Burrell, CTO of TNZI. “Alcatel provides a solution spanning service routers, service and network management applications, design and build expertise, and local support.”

“The introduction of the 7710 SR reflects the strengthening and broadening of our IP portfolio,” said Basil Alwan, president of Alcatel’s IP activities. “It’s also a continuing validation that service routing is the most important new phase in the IP industry. Extending all the performance and QoS features of our service routers into a scaled-down form factor gives operators the service richness, velocity and flexibility that have made Alcatel’s IP family so successful already.”

Worldwide, the Alcatel IP portfolio has been selected by more than 100 service providers, including AT&T Inc. as part of its Project Lightspeed, which will provide broadband access for up to 18 million households in the United States, as well as for network transformation projects at BT, Deutsche Telekom and China Telecom.

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