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Optical Services Platform
Pioneering AdvancedTCA® in the
Optical Network Layer
The LambdaNode 5000 Optical Services Platform leads the way
in the rapid provisioning of optical services for access, metro,
and regional applications, offering customers flexibility and
investment protection. Based on the Advanced Telecom Computing
Architecture (AdvancedTCA®), the LambdaNode 5000 platform
takes a lead role in the rapid provisioning of optical services
for access and metro applications. The AdvancedTCA shelf supports
standardization of optical transport systems and provides increased
flexibility via a competitive blade (circuit pack) environment.
Increased flexibility, lower cost,
and investment protection
Incorporating leading edge technology, the LambdaNode 5000 platform
provides unprecedented switching capability that extends from
two-degree ring topologies to multi-degree mesh topologies.
Among the benefits offered by the LambdaNode 5000 platform:
- Reduce CapEx costs through standardization
of integrated optical systems such as Wavelength Selectable
Switching (WSS) and ROADMs (reconfigurable add/drop multiplexers)
on AdvancedTCA
- Reduce OpEx costs through GMPLS control-plane
with auto discovery, automated inventory, provisioning,
and fault management
- Improve optical network flexibility with
a path from rings to mesh topology and dynamic reconfigurability
- Rapidly customize specific applications
just by changing circuit packs.
- Simplify management through common control
and management software
Complementing the LambdaNode 2000
and LambdaCreate™ software
The LambdaNode 5000 platform complements the features of the
LambdaNode 2000, the industry’s first integrated, all-optical
switch, while continuing to offer:
- simplified network engineering and operation
- dynamic, flexible network configuration
- high-availability service protection
- differentiated transport services
- elimination of costly O-E-O conversions
- scalability to 40 Gbps
- carrier-class fault and performance management
- protocol and bit-rate independence.
Based on these attributes, the LambdaNode
5000 platform is the ideal choice to support legacy ATM and
Sonet/SDH networks as well as converged IP, IPTV, Internet-based
video, interactive gaming, storage area networking, Ethernet,
Lambda Grid, WSS, and ROADM applications. |
