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Alcatel-Lucent announces 1870 optical core switch

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PARIS, FRANCE: Alcatel-Lucent introduced its 1870 Transport Tera Switch (TTS), an optical core switching platform with the implementation of the next-generation optical transport network (OTN) standard.

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This gives operators the flexibility to transport IP traffic, including video, at the most cost-effective layer of the network while increasing profitability by freeing up bandwidth for higher value services.

The Alcatel-Lucent 1870 TTS is a part of the company’s recently introduced Converged Backbone Transformation (CBT) solution for next generation IP optical core networks, part of the High Leverage Network architecture - a fully converged, scalable, next generation, all-IP multiservice infrastructure.

The Alcatel-Lucent 1870 TTS builds on a unique set of features including an industry-first, proprietary chip which allows universal switching – at one terabit per second (TBits/s) -- of any traffic mix on a single chip. The product scales as high as four Tbit/s in its first release and is “hardware ready” to support 8 Tbit/s.

Romano Valussi, president, optics activities, Alcatel-Lucent, said: “Network costs are growing proportionally with traffic, but revenue and profit are not. To address this disconnect, operators need to ensure that their IP core can manage ever increasing volumes of traffic at the lowest possible cost."

The Alcatel-Lucent 1870 TTS supports multiple transport networking options, including Carrier Ethernet and SONET/SDH, and offers Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching/Automatically Switched Optical Network (GMPLS/ASON) control plane intelligence for added-value applications such as advanced restoration, resource virtualization and cross-layer automation.

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