Meeting the surging bandwidth demand from today's video and multimedia services, the FP3 gives a major boost to service providers building application-enabled, High Leverage Networks.
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The FP3 network processor can quadruple the speed of the most advanced networks available today. It unlocks value for the next generation of online applications, entertainment and communications while cutting power consumption by up to 50%. The FP3 400G network processor is the third generation of high-performance, service-aware network processors designed in-house by Alcatel-Lucent.
Ensuring networks can scale to address the challenge of booming bandwidth demand is not sufficient. Networks must also create value to deliver collaborative multimedia applications, new home entertainment service offerings, cloud-based services and more.
High performance routers with higher capacity line cards lessen the need for additional equipment to address escalating bandwidth demands, reducing footprint. The result? Fewer, more efficient platforms support a broader array of services, simplify networks and reduce greenhouse emissions.
* The 2008 Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) from their SMART 2020 report.
The FP3 network processor defines the kind of systems we can build in the future. Service providers are making the transition to 100G today. That means they need more and more port density in their current platforms.
The FP3 network processor defines the kind of systems we can build in the future. Service providers are making the transition to 100G today. That means they need more and more port density in their current platforms.
Silicon is the DNA of an IP/MPLS router. Used in the network processing chipset, silicon determines how the platform behaves, the features it provides and its potential to evolve. With the third generation of in-house designed silicon, Alcatel-Lucent is able to ensure feature consistency from generation to generation, while at the same time massively increasing the performance and services scale of the chipset.
The FP3 chipset is ideally dimensioned to offer high-density 10G Ethernet (GE), 40GE and 100GE line cards, while also offering a path to 400GE interfaces in the future.
The industry is just beginning to deliver IP routers based on 100G network processors (comparable to Alcatel-Lucent FP2 technology announced in 2008). Alcatel-Lucent is already shipping FP3 technology on a family of line cards ...
The industry is just beginning to deliver IP routers based on 100G network processors (comparable to Alcatel-Lucent FP2 technology announced in 2008).
Alcatel-Lucent is already shipping FP3 technology on a family of line cards for the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) and Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS). The new family of Integrated Media Module (IMM) line cards will be the highest density, most power-efficient line cards in the industry. They also support the full range of services offered on the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR.
The FP3 plays an important role in the Alcatel-Lucent vision of the High Leverage Network™ (HLN). The FP3 enables service providers to increase capacity, reduce costs and develop new revenue opportunities.
The FP3 plays an important role in the Alcatel-Lucent vision of the High Leverage Network™ (HLN).
The FP3 enables service providers to increase capacity, reduce costs and develop new revenue opportunities. The greater capacity of the silicon used in the Alcatel-Lucent portfolio of IP/MPLS routers will allow service providers to move from development to delivery of new services without capacity or reliability concerns.
With the FP3, the dawn of a new era in service provider edge routing has arrived. The FP3 builds on a proven foundation of in-house-developed silicon, optimized platforms, a feature-rich operating system and end-to-end service-aware management.
With the FP3, the dawn of a new era in service provider edge routing has arrived. The FP3 builds on a proven foundation of in-house-developed silicon, optimized platforms, a feature-rich operating system and end-to-end service-aware management. As a result, Alcatel-Lucent is poised to help service providers address the next wave of network challenges and opportunities:
The FP3 is a key part of Alcatel-Lucent solutions to the challenges service providers face — but only a part. Alcatel-Lucent also provides a comprehensive suite of services that ensure successful deployments of FP3-based products. Services include strategic planning, consulting, end-to-end network design and optimization, OSS/BSS integration and managed services.
Service providers that choose Alcatel-Lucent are choosing an architecture that supports their long-term goal of being the preferred broadband connection of choice.
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“According to Dell'Oro Group, advancements in silicon technologies for packet processing have enabled more ports per line card and led to lower prices. The increase in 10GE port and 100GE densities on a single line card will enable lower prices on a per-port basis and improve operational efficiencies—important factors for adoption by Service Providers. While the adoption of 100GE ports is still in its infancy, these ports will play an important role in service providers' evaluation of the next generation of routers and network architectures. Dell'Oro's most recent five-year forecast report included a projection for 100 GE port shipments to grow significantly with a compounded annual growth rate of more than 200% from 2010 through 2015.”
Analyst Shin Umeda, Carrier Ethernet & Routers Market Research
"Alcatel-Lucent is showing its technology roots, recently with lightRadio™ for the wireless market and now with the FP3 400G network processor for IP routing. I’m impressed that any company could develop such a high-capacity network processor, solving 400G in the electrical domain before the industry solves 400G for lightwaves. This 400G chipset is a generational advance that will improve router 100GE density/cost and will attract the eye of service providers.”
Michael Howard, Co-founder and Principal Analyst, Carrier and Data Center Networks, Infonetics Research
“A significant development milestone that will serve as a foundation upon which service router product development will be based for the next 5+ years, the FP3 network processor chip set targets operator requirements for scaling differentiated services with more dense and cost effective infrastructure, thereby supporting Alcatel-Lucent’s applications enablement and high leverage networks strategy and positioning.”
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David Dunphy, Author and Managing Partner, Telecom Strategy Partners
