Sycamore Delivers Aggregation Solution for Regional/Metro Networking

Sycamore Networks has come out with the SN 9000 Intelligent Multiservice Switch, a new “right-sized” solution for regional/metro applications in the 80gbps to 320gbps range.

This high-density platform combines broadband and wideband cross-connect functionality with intelligent bandwidth management and any service/any port capability.

Key applications for the SN 9000 wireline and mobile traffic aggregation and grooming.

Service providers can buy licenses for the product at 80gbps, 160gbps or 320gbps and increase their capacities in service later with just an online software download.

Because the SN 9000 supports a wide variety of technologies and has no fixed card slots, service providers can, for instance, install a DS3 at a customer premises and later upgrade the customer to an MPLS- or cell-based service without doing a truck roll to deploy new gear. Instead, the service provider can simply run traffic over the same interface and the SN 9000 will redirect that to the correct service, explained Jim Mooney, vice president of product management and marketing. This also means the service provider doesn’t have to spare service-specific modules, he added.

The SN 9000 also has a distributed grooming architecture; supports mesh, ring and hybrid protection; and includes it own transponders, so there’s no need for a separate ROADM solution.

The new product, which starts at $50,000 for the base system, fits in between Sycamore’s lower-end SN 3000 and its SN 16000, which falls in the 320-640gig and beyond space. It competes with such products as multiservice provisioning platforms and optical cross-connects from the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu and Nortel.

Alcatel-Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal
Fujitsu www.fujitsu.com
Nortel www.nortel.com
Sycamore Networks www.sycamorenet.com

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