Enhanced with OTN G.709 capabilities, Sycamore Universal Service Card
to be showcased in OIF Broadband On-Demand Global Interoperability
Demonstration
Sycamore Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMR) today announced the addition of
Optical Transport Network (OTN) capabilities to its suite of integrated
switching and transport offerings on the SN 16000 Intelligent Optical
Switching Platform. Already deployed in a Tier 1 carrier network, the
industry-standard (ITU-T G.709) interface module expands the rich
feature set of Sycamore’s Universal Service Card and provides network
operators with additional tools to reduce capital and operational costs
while improving network efficiencies, reliability, and end-to-end
service interoperability.
The cost-effective Universal Service Card (USC) for the SN 16000
Intelligent Optical Switching Platform supports – on a single card – a
wide range of client service rates and high-speed transport options,
including Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, SDH, and
in-service pluggable optics. Enhanced with the OTN G.709 Line Interface
Module (LIM), the full-featured USC further simplifies the design,
configuration, and deployment of different traffic types and converged
services over dynamic optical transport networks. Leveraging common
networking (BroadLeaf®) and management (SILVX®) intelligence shared by
all Sycamore optical switches, the Sycamore OTN solution brings a new
level of flexibility and efficiency to end-to-end, multi-service
transport.
The OTN G.709 USC solution supports both the standard Forward Error
Correction (FEC) and enhanced FEC optimized for long distance
transmission. The standards-based OTN interface module also supports
software configurable full C-band tunable optics, which dramatically
simplifies wavelength activation and allows network operators to reduce
the number of collocated DWDM equipment (e.g., transponders,
regenerators) in integrated switching and transport applications. As a
result, network operators can achieve significant cost savings by
reducing footprint, power, and sparing requirements as the network
scales.
