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New smaller scale platforms allow service providers to
extend advantages of Service Routing to furthest reaches of IP network edge at
a more economical price point
Paris, October 28, 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU) today announced the introduction of two new IP routers designed to give
service providers an economically viable alternative for offering smaller
communities the same advanced mobile, residential and business services
currently delivered in larger metropolitan areas. The new products, which will
expand the addressable market of Alcatel-Lucent’s industry-leading Service
Router portfolio, will extend the benefits of service routing further out into
the network and also enable mission-critical verticals such as utilities,
transportation, healthcare, public safety, and financial institutions to
confidently transform their networks to all-IP with a solution scaled to their
needs.
Alcatel-Lucent is extending its 7750 Service Router (SR) family with the
introduction of two new routers, the 7750 SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4. Both products
are fully featured multiservice routers offering the same rich suite of
applications for which the Service Router is known, but in a smaller
form-factor. The products are scaled to meet the requirements of smaller
‘points of presence’ in large service provider networks, and to address IP/MPLS
network requirements for smaller-scale service providers and mission critical
verticals. The Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4 are powered by the FP2
chipset, Alcatel-Lucent’s break through silicon which delivers sophisticated
and optimized network processing and traffic management at speeds up to
100Gb/s. Both also run under the same operating system as the entire Service
Router family for seamless interworking, consistent service delivery and
simplified operations.
“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,” said Glen
Hunt, principal analyst, Carrier Infrastructure, Current Analysis. “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.”
As the newest members of the Service Router family, the Alcatel-Lucent 7750
SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4 become key components of Alcatel-Lucent’s 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.
“Alcatel-Lucent continues to build out and strengthen its IP portfolio with
innovations such as the recently introduced 100GE interface, targeted at
massive bandwidth requirements, and now with our new high performance platforms
dimensioned for smaller points of presence,” said Basil Alwan, president of
Alcatel-Lucent’s IP activities. “Not only do the new Service Routers deliver
outstanding flexibility in their ability to deliver a full range of
Ethernet port speeds from 10Mb/s to 10Gb/s, but they’re also well suited to
programs designed to extend broadband connectivity, which is a driver for
economic development in all regions.”
The new Alcatel-Lucent Service Routers deliver up to 90 Gb/s of forwarding
capacity and can support edge routing interfaces speeds of up to 10GigE with
sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS), a highly scalable control plane, and
native IPv6 support in hardware. They offer proven high availability features
including non-stop routing, non-stop services, Multi-Chassis-LAG, Multi-link
PPP and pseudowire redundancy, and support a wide range of both legacy and
Ethernet interface types. Both platforms also run under the Alcatel-Lucent
Service Router Operating System (SROS), a single, feature rich operating system
which runs across all service router platforms, and the Alcatel-Lucent 5620
Service Aware Manager (SAM) providing integrated element, network, and service
management to enable seamless operations, administration and management
(OAM) and simplified, consistent services delivery.
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Over 280 service providers in more than 100 countries around the world have
selected the Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS portfolio as key elements of their IP
transformation. According to Ovum, Alcatel-Lucent holds the #2 position in the
IP/MPLS Edge market segment.
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