ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001--
Industry's Only Network Aware Grooming Switch Enables Service Providers to Reduce
Provisioning Costs and Decrease Time to Revenue by
Over 85 Percent While Utilizing Up to 100 Percent of Available
Bandwidth Resources
Sycamore Networks (NASDAQ: SCMR - news), a leader in intelligent optical networking,
announced the availability of its large grooming version of the SN 16000 intelligent optical
switch. With this release, the SN 16000 is able to scale to a 1024 x 1024 OC-48/STM-16
switch fabric with full grooming capabilities, provide dual network aware control planes and
offer voice quality restoration. Currently shipping in a 512 x 512 OC-48/STM-16 or 128 x
128 OC-192/STM-64 configuration, the SN 16000 is the highest density optical grooming
switch available on the market today. These features offer incumbent and emerging carriers
the industry's best mix of capacity utilization and advanced features in a space-saving
form-factor.
``We chose the SN 16000 because it allows our next-generation BellSouthMIX network to
offer unprecedented bandwidth, speed and performance to Internet Service Providers
(ISPs), Web hosting firms and other Internet-related businesses,'' said Susan Campbell,
senior director of BellSouth's Internet Exchange services. ``Sycamore's SN 16000
dynamically routes and re-routes traffic to support the rapid changes required by our
customers and is the intelligent infrastructure that will enable BellSouth to meet future
value-added service requirements for BellSouthMIX applications.''
Carriers using grooming optical switches are able to maximize available resources, revenues
and minimize additional investments in existing infrastructures. Capable of supporting a 1024
x 1024 switch fabric, the SN 16000, on display at Sycamore's SUPERCOMM Booth
(#2530), offers full grooming capabilities down to the STS-1/AU-3 level through
OC-192/STM-64 and allows for automatic recognition and switching for all standard SONET/SDH concatenation rates. The
automation is enabled with the introduction of dynamic channelization, a new soft-optic feature that allows service providers to
increase network and operator efficiency by automating end-to-end service provisioning. This capability results in significant
savings in both equipment and resources.
``The large grooming version of the SN 16000 offers the industry's most advanced grooming options, scalability and density,
while also providing embedded features that allow the SN 16000 to seamlessly co-exist in any network,'' said Jeff Kiel, vice
president and general manager of Sycamore's Core Switching Business Unit. ``By using Sycamore's SN 16000 instead of
traditional Digital Cross-Connect System (DCS) equipment, service providers can realize tremendous cost, power and space
savings today, while creating a solid foundation for offering next-generation services as their needs dictate.''
Sycamore's SN 16000 continues to leverage the intelligence of the BroadLeaf(TM) Network Operating System (NOS),
Sycamore's node-resident software platform, for optical routing and signaling control. The SN 16000 optimizes the use of
available network resources by leveraging BroadLeaf's optical insight to understand protection and restoration schemes, Virtual
Private Network (VPN) assignments, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and capacity allocations. BroadLeaf's open,
IP-centric architecture supports both current and emerging optical signaling standards such as GMPLS and OIF UNI 1.0 to
ensure interoperability with other networked devices.
The SN 16000 achieves true network awareness by sharing BroadLeaf's optical insight throughout the entire network, with the
use of a dual control plane. The dual control plane (in-band and out-of-band) protects critical configuration and management
information, ensuring it remains intact even if a circuit fails. This feature not only allows Sycamore's SN 16000 to optimize
available network resources and call up additional bandwidth as needed, it also allows seamless integration in multi-vendor
networks, regardless of topology.
Additional software enhancements enable the SN 16000 to offer sophisticated levels of protection and restoration options
regardless of network topology. Options such as tiered levels of protection, guaranteed diverse paths and sub-50 millisecond
SONET/SDH-level restoration not only provide operational savings, but also allow for service differentiation and the creation
of new revenue streams.
Offering intelligent optical transport, switching and management solutions from the edge through the core of the public network,
Sycamore's solutions can be used as a foundation for a fundamentally new network architecture -- mesh, or as a bridging
technology to help service providers enhance their existing ring-based architectures. Added to the host of unprecedented
features already available, the SN 16000 enables carriers to maximize their networking resources while addressing new
customer demands for high-speed, data optimized services. |
