Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled two new IP routers, which it claims to give service providers an economically viable alternative for offering smaller communities mobile, residential and business services.
Alcatel-Lucent is extending its 7750 Service Router (SR) family with the addition of two new routers, the 7750 SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4. These are powered by the FP2 chipset, the company’s silicon that offers optimised network processing and traffic management at speeds up to 100Gb/s. Both products are fully featured multiservice routers offering the same suite of applications in a smaller form-factor.
The company claims that its new IP routers become key components of its High Leverage Network architecture that enables operators to deliver traffic more reliably, efficiently and at the lowest cost.
Alcatel-Lucent said that the new IP routers will deliver up to 90Gb/s of forwarding capacity and can support edge routing interface speeds of up to 10GigE with Quality of Service (QoS), a control plane, and native IPv6 support in hardware.
According to Alcatel-Lucent, the new service routers offer non-stop routing, non-stop services, Multi-Chassis-LAG, Multi-link PPP and pseudowire redundancy, and support a wide range of both legacy and ethernet interface types. Both platforms run under the Service Router Operating System (SROS) that runs across all service router platforms, and the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) providing integrated element, network, and service management to enable operations, administration and management (OAM) and consistent services delivery.
Basil Alwan, president of IP activities at Alcatel-Lucent, said: Alcatel-Lucent continues to build out and strengthen its IP portfolio with innovations such as the recently introduced 100GE interface, targeted at massive bandwidth requirements, and now with our new high performance platforms dimensioned for smaller points of presence.
“Not only do the new Service Routers deliver outstanding flexibility in their ability to deliver a full range of ethernet port speeds from 10Mb/s to 10Gb/s, but they’re also well suited to programs designed to extend broadband connectivity, which is a driver for economic development in all regions.
