Juniper Networks said that the Shanghai Branch of China Telecom has deployed its multi-chassis routing system in a production environment.
Juniper said that China Telecom can continue scaling the core of its super metro area network in Shanghai and support Expo 2010, with the implementation of the Juniper Networks TX Matrix Plus, interconnecting Juniper Networks T1600 Core Routers.
According to Juniper Networks, the systems are currently connected to network links including OC768, OC192, OC48, 10GbE and Gigabit Ethernet ports. China Telecom can scale its Shanghai core network as needed with addition of more line cards including Juniper Networks’ new 100GbE interface.
The company said that TX Matrix Plus leverages T1600 technology. The T1600 and TX Matrix Plus lower total cost of ownership by delivering up to 25% more routing capacity in half the footprint, and with up to 40% less power.
The TX Matrix Plus architecture supports up to 25 Tbps of throughput and 30 billion packets a second of forwarding capacity by integrating up to sixteen T1600s into a single multi-chassis routing node.
Luc Ceuppens, vice president of product marketing at Juniper Infrastructure Products Group, said: "The TX Matrix Plus system and T1600 Core Routers were designed to address some of the latest network engineering challenges faced by telecommunications service providers, and scaling broadband service in Shanghai is an example of such a challenge.
"Our core network solution scales in multiple dimensions — on the forwarding, control, and service planes – providing a reliable, high-performance, and flexible architecture that can carry a wide breadth of services over a common IP/MPLS infrastructure.
"That means China Telecom can continue to scale its Shanghai network and conform to stringent service-level agreements while minimising both capital and operational expenditures."
