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Networking:
Tellabs Enhances 8800 Series Of
Multi-Service Routers
Tellabs has added several new features to its Tellabs 8800 multi-service
routers (MSRs) that will enable service providers to leverage their existing
infrastructure to more cost-effectively address their customers' emerging data
services needs. With these enhancements, which are available now as part of
feature package 3.1, the Tellabs 8800 MSR gains a unique ability to support
the following MPLS-based applications on a single platform: Ethernet, IP
virtual private networks (VPN), virtual private LAN services (VPLS) and Layer
2 VPNs with interworking. Ultimately, service providers will have the
flexibility needed to implement any application first then layer on additional
applications as demanded by the end-customer.
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"We enhanced the Tellabs 8800 series of intelligent multi-service routers
to
provide our customers with a graceful migration path to a fully-converged data
services network in a cost-effective manner," said Mike Kazban, vice president
of marketing for Tellabs Advanced Data Products group. "By continuing to
develop the Tellabs 8800 multi-service routers with new technology, we are
advancing our leadership in offering our customers the most advanced
multi-service routers in the industry."
The new hardware and software enhancements to the Tellabs 8800 series of
intelligent multi-service routers include:
- IP/MPLS VPNs which give service providers a new IP network service
infrastructure that can enable high-growth revenue opportunities and offer
corporations significant business advantages. The IP/MPLS VPNs are based on
the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) RFC 2547bis
specification.
- Frame Relay link management and support for DS-1 and fractional DS-0
circuits which enable service providers to create highly-demanded, IP-enabled
Frame Relay VPNs that complement their existing high-speed Frame Relay service
offerings.
- Address Resolution Protocol mediation for IP interworking of Layer 2
VPNs
that offers service providers additional service flexibility. This enhancement
also improves the platform's presently-supported any-to-any service and
bridged interworking capabilities for Frame Relay, ATM and Ethernet, and is
based on the IETF's shah-draft.
- IP Connection Admission Control that enables service providers to turn
traditional best-effort IP services into more profitable IP services by using
Tellabs' hardware-based Quality of Service to deliver mission-critical
applications over an IP network.
- VPLS that offer multi-point to multi-point WAN extensions of Ethernet
networks to enable new service offerings. This enhancement has support for
granular bandwidth management across the MPLS network, conforms to the Metro
Ethernet Forum's standards and adds additional scale to the IETF's Virtual
Leased Line draft Martini standard.
- Support for Ethernet frames over DS-3 encapsulation using the Ethernet-
over-SONET standard (ITU-T x.86) that is essential for the delivery of metro
Ethernet services over copper-rich metro access networks.
- Flexible, plugable Gigabit Ethernet interface modules to give service
providers the ability to choose between short-reach or long-reach optics on an
interface by interface basis within a given line card.
- Support for stringent security access to enable service providers to
prevent unauthorized access to the Tellabs 8800 platform by encrypting
critical configuration files including passwords. This enhancement is based on
the IETF's secure shell v1/v2 standard.
- Extensive network management data collection that gathers historical
statistics across the network to enable service providers to analyze network
performance, perform traffic modelling and plan capacity. With historical data
records, service providers can generate network utilization reports that can
confirm their customers' Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Hardware interfaces that are being introduced in feature package 3.1
for
the Tellabs 8800 platform include:
- 6 port Channelized DS-3 (3/1/0) Physical Line Module (PLM)
- 6 Port DS-3/EC-3 Clear Channel PLM
- OC-48c/STM-16c Long Reach-1 PLM
- OC-48/STM-16 Long Reach-1 PLM
The newly-enhanced Tellabs 8800 MSRs have completed successful lab trials
with
several major service providers and were recently showcased at a live
interoperability demonstration at the Isocore headquarters in McLean, Va., and
at the MPLS World Congress in Paris.
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