Aricent releases new ISS-Metro

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Unveiling a new licensable, pre-packaged software framework that jumpstarts the development and integration of advanced switching products, technology company Aricent has said that its new Intelligent Switching Solution (ISS) ISS-Metro has been specifically optimized for carrier and metro Ethernet product development.

The new product has already been picked by more than 35 networking and telecom equipment manufacturers globally. Targeted at networking and telecom equipment manufacturers building products and services to deploy high performance Ethernet in access, aggregation, edge and transport equipment, the new software is capable of providing an extensive collection of standards-based protocol software that manufacturers use in order that their engineering groups can focus on adding value and differentiation, said the company.

According to Aricent, the new ISS-Metro adds the just-standardized PBB-TE to complex switching functions that carriers demand these days. Michael Howard, principal analyst at Infonetics Research, said: “The demand for high-performance Ethernet for enterprise and metro applications is increasing each year, and frameworks such as ISS-Metro support the aggressive schedules, advanced features, and operational assurance customers want.”

These deployments range from greenfield build-outs to replacement of ATM and SONET infrastructure. Applications include FTTH, FTTC, Ethernet DSL access, MSAN, mobile backhaul/cellular backhaul and VPNs over packet infrastructure.

The new ISS-Metro is believed to offer advanced spanning tree algorithms, Ethernet Operations, Administration and Management (OAM) capabilities, Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM), Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB), Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), virtualization of switching components, fault tolerant high availability, and Ethernet protection switching. Aricent also offers MPLS as an add-on to the ISS-Metro package.