Ciena has expanded its Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery (CESD) portfolio with the launch of CN 5150 service aggregation switch, which it claims to support subscriber scalability, extended operating temperatures (-40° to 149°F), higher port density and advanced features including a range of connection-oriented ethernet services.
The company said that the new offering supports wireless backhaul, ethernet business service aggregation and delivery, and multi-purpose carrier ethernet-based infrastructures. It satisfies LTE backhaul requirements, including support for the X2 interface, clock synchronisation, scalability and difficult operating environments.
Ciena said that the new service aggregation switch supports up to 256,000 MAC addresses; IEEE 1588v2 precision timing protocol and synchronous ethernet; and range of encapsulation options including Q-in-Q, PBB-TE and MPLS. It also provides port density in a 2 RU form factor with 48 x 1Gbps and up to 4 x 10Gbps ethernet ports.
The CN 5150 offers interworking with CN 5410, CN 5305 and CN 5140 service aggregation switches and the entire service delivery switch portfolio, the company said.
Philippe Morin, senior vice president of global products group at Ciena, said: “With the rapid growth of ethernet services and the continuous demand for more bandwidth at new points in the network, fiber aggregation points are being pushed further and further towards the edge.
“The addition of CN 5150 to this portfolio means our customers now have a fully manageable, GbE to 10GbE aggregation platform that can be deployed in any extended temperature location.”
