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Alcatel-Lucent has introduced two compact IP routing platforms designed to
enable service providers to offer smaller communities the same advanced
residential and business services delivered
in larger metropolitan areas. The new products extend the benefits of
service routing further out in the network, and enable mission-critical
verticals including utility, local government and financial institutions to
confidently undertake IP transformation activities.
The new platforms for 7750 Service Router (SR) family are the 7750 SR-c12
and 7750 SR-c4. Both platforms are high performance multiservice routers
optimized to the requirements of smaller network deployments. These two
platforms leverage many of the same proven elements for which the service
router portfolio is known:
- The Alcatel-Lucent 100-Gig FP2 silicon
- The highly fault tolerant and feature rich Service Router Operating System
(SR OS)
- The industry-leading 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM)
- An unmatched range of common interface adapters
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“With these additions, Alcatel-Lucent is effectively
extending a proven, feature-rich platform to address new market opportunities
where they need the capacity and capability, but at more cost-effective price
points. The elegant integration with the existing portfolio – especially with a
single operating system from end-to-end - makes it attractive to operators who
are looking to deliver full featured, high performance services from their
smaller or more remote points of presence in order to drive new revenues. This
is the next logical evolution of the portfolio, and these platforms are
powerful additions to the 7750 SR family
Glen Hunt, Principal Analyst,
Carrier Infrastructure,
Current Analysis
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With 90 Gb/s of forwarding capacity, highly scalable multicore CPUs, and
interface speeds up to 10 Gb/s, these two platforms offer the unique ability to
address legacy, lower speed requirements while concurrently enabling operators
to evolve toward high-speed MPLS-enabled carrier Ethernet services.
Business benefits include:
- Fully-featured IP/MPLS platform in a form-factor and price point that is
optimized for lower-capacity service needs
- Leading high availability feature set supports requirements for mission
critical applications with uninterrupted service delivery
- Maximized return on investment by consolidating all services and networks
onto an integrated IP/MPLS multi-service IP network
- Minimized management and operational expenses with 5620 Service Aware
Manager (SAM), a fully integrated node, network, and service management
system
- Reduced carbon footprint and environmental impact by delivering a smaller
foot print, lower-power consuming platform
- Increased service revenues and profitability by delivering
high-touch, differentiated features and service capabilities
“Alcatel-Lucent continues to innovate and strengthen its IP portfolio with
the addition of these two smaller service router platforms which both deliver
the high performance and service scale of FP2-enabled service routing to a
wider, underserved market,” said Basil Alwan, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s
IP activities. “We’re broadening the appeal of our flagship 7750 SR
portfolio with new products which are ideally suited to deliver
high-performance routing out to the furthest reaches of large scale networks or
alternately, to enable the full benefits of service routing in smaller scale
networks.”
As the newest members of the Service Router family, the Alcatel-Lucent 7750
SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4 become key components of the Alcatel-Lucent High Leverage
Network™ architecture—a fully converged, scalable, next-generation, all-IP
multiservice infrastructure that enables operators to deliver traffic more
reliably, efficiently and at the lowest cost, while also leveraging the network
to generate revenue from sophisticated managed services and applications.
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