ADVA Delivers Standards-based GigE Termination Solution for Wholesale Apps

ADVA Optical Networking is taking the wraps off its FSP 150CCf-825, which the company is now calling the flagship member of its FSP family of intelligent Ethernet access products. The 825, which is aimed at wholesale applications, is among the products BT will be using as part of its recently announced deal with ADVA.

“The CCf-825 is a new unit that includes a lot of new features. It’s positioned as a next-generation service demarcation focusing on gigabit Ethernet service termination,” said Brian McCann, the company’s chief marketing and strategy officer. “It supports up to five clients, in a combination up to four 10/100s and a gigE over a gigE uplink. Covaro [which ADVA acquired in 2005] did a lot around pioneering the whole EtherJack OAM, UNI, NID functionality, and what we’ve done with them is expand the feature sets and now brought it to be compliant for MEF, ITU and IEEE. So that’s kind of the next natural step to the evolution.”

In addition to the standards compliance, the 825 brings with it additional features like remote loopbacks, built-in testing, single-end and book-ended applications, said McCann. The 825, which supports up to 400 Ethernet virtual circuits, also features hot-swappable power supplies, support for the IEEE’s 802.1ag and the ITU-T’s 1731, MEF-compliant three-color marketing and eight-level COS, MAC-to-tag learning into Ethernet virtual circuits and C-tag to S-tag mapping.

The initial version of the 825, which is shipping in volume now, supports PBB-TE. But McCann said future versions of the 825 will support T-MPLS and other MPLS structures. “Essentially it’s ubiquitous, regardless of the data plane,” he said. “We believe the access market will be fragmented; there will not be one clear winner. We will support all of them.”

BT plans to begin installing the 825 gear in the second half of this year, according to McCann, who added that ADVA is the only vendor to offer a solution of this kind in volume today.

“The FSP 150CCf-825 represents an innovation in Ethernet access solutions,” he said. “With this product we are able to deliver the most advanced carrier Ethernet service demarcation available on the market today and thereby remove the final barriers for service providers to move from legacy technologies. The FSP 150CCf is a true next-generation platform that no other equipment vendor can provide today.”

ADVA Optical Networking www.advaoptical.com

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