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Industry-first test confirms carrier services at 100 GE
speeds on Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router
Calabasas, CA, Paris, France, July 28, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and
NYSE: ALU)and  Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA) today announced
that Isocore, a leading provider of cutting-edge networking technology
validation services, tested and verified the Alcatel-Lucent
7750 Service Router’s (SR) 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GE)
performance, using Ixia’s K2 100 GE test solution. The results
validate the Service Router’s ability to handle the broad range of capabilities
needed to support the scaling of high-touch service connections at 100 Gbps
line-rate speeds. The test results also demonstrate the viability of 100 GE for
broad deployment throughout carrier networks, extending beyond the IP core and
into the service edge and metro, where services meet the network.
100 GE represents a ten-fold leap forward in capacity for service providers
who need to scale their networks efficiently and with minimal risk to support
traffic growth in their business, residential and mobile services. With 100 GE,
an entire Blu-Ray DVD can be transmitted in just two seconds on a single
link.
This test is the first 100 GE demonstration of line-rate, loss-less
transmission using a diverse mix of service traffic types with thousands of
queues and service attributes, which are critical for service assurance. Ixia’s
K2 and IxNetwork were used to emulate the Ethernet and IP traffic seen on
business VPN services offered to corporate customers who have stringent
performance and service level agreement (SLA) expectations. The results
confirmed that the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR’s 100 GE interfaces supported and
sustained 100Gbps speeds while delivering residential broadband, subscriber
management, business Ethernet and virtual private networks (VPNs), and wireless
3G/LTE services.
Key Facts:
- In this ground-breaking test, Isocore and Ixia tested configurations that
emulated large-scale connection and service attributes in service provider
networks which offer high-touch IP and Ethernet VPN services. Isocore used
Ixia’s K2 100 GE test solution to transmit, capture and perform real-time
analysis with full line-rate 100 GE Internet mix (IMIX) traffic in conjunction
with layer 3 Virtual Private Networks (L3VPN), layer 2 VPNs, QinQ double
tagging at the customer edge, and Ethernet Virtual Private LAN Services
(VPLS).
- Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 SR 100GE solutions are the industry’s only 100 GE
products available today that support full edge services as well as full IP
routing and Ethernet switching. The test emulated both customer edge (CE) and
provider edge (PE) routers with OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), LDP (Label
Distribution Protocol) and MP-iBGP (multiprotocol-Interior Border Gateway
Protocol) sessions. The Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR was configured with 8,000
IP-VPNs, 4,000 Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) links, and 20,000 layer 2
VPNs. The 7750 SR maintained comprehensive quality of service (QoS) on each
flow while operating at 100 Gbps line rate.
- Ixia’s Higher Speed Ethernet (HSE) solutions are the only full-production
test products available today that validate IEEE 802.3ba standards-based
network elements. Ixia’s K2 modules generate and analyze 40 GE and 100 GE BERT
and layer 2-7 line-rate traffic, with up to one million distinct flows. K2
modules are compatible with Ixia’s award-winning testing applications, which
allowed Isocore to initially develop its configurations using 10 GE interfaces
and then to quickly adapt as needed to support Alcatel-Lucent’s 100 Gbps
service routing interfaces.
Supporting Quotes:
- “With a keen focus on enabling innovative IP and Ethernet-based service
offerings, and in support of our High Leverage Network architecture,
Alcatel-Lucent has extended the reach of 100GE to the service edge and metro,
where services meet the network,” said Basil Alwan, President, IP Division. “By
going far beyond faster transport in the core and enabling services at speed,
Alcatel-Lucent paves the way for service providers to deploy 100 GE wherever
they need it to efficiently grow their services, and to minimize risk and
complexity by doing so on existing Service Router platforms deployed in their
networks.”
- “The observed results of this testing confirm the ability of Alcatel-Lucent
7750 Service Router with 100 GE interfaces to sustain line-rate traffic, while
supporting a mix of thousands of layer 2 and layer 3 service instances at 100
Gbps throughput,” said Dr. Bijan Jabbari, president of Isocore. “The test
results also validate the Service Router’s comprehensive QoS on 100 GE modules,
confirming the solution based on the Service Router portfolio can be deployed
beyond core scenarios, into the metro and service edge of service provider
networks.”
- “Ixia’s proven, first-to-market, HSE test solutions accelerate network
equipment manufacturers’ and carriers’ time to market with 100 GE devices and
networks. K2 is part of Ixia’s single-platform solution that covers the full
range of Ethernet speeds, from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps," said Errol Ginsberg, Chief
Innovation Officer at Ixia. "Alcatel-Lucent’s successful test, using Ixia’s HSE
test solution, validates 100 GE’s ability to handle complex routing traffic in
diverse mixes that represent the needs of the evolving converged data
center.”
Resources:
Tags:
Alcatel-Lucent, Ixia, Isocore, 100GE, Ethernet, IP VPN, High Leverage
Network, Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router, service aware network.
About Ixia
Ixia is a leading provider of converged IP performance test systems and service
verification platforms for wireless and wired infrastructures and services.
Ixia’s test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers,
semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments and enterprises to
validate the performance and reliability of complex networks, devices and
applications. Ixia’s multiplay test systems address the growing need to test
voice, video and data services and network capability under real-world
conditions.
Ixia and the Ixia four-petal logo are registered trademarks or
trademarks of Ixia. Other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
About Isocore
Isocore provides technology validation, certification and product evaluation
services in emerging and next generation Internet and wireless technologies.
Isocore is leading validation and interoperability of novel technologies
including Carrier Ethernet, IPv6, IP Optical Integration, wireless backhauling
and Layer 2/3 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and currently focuses on IPTV
service deployment architecture validation and design. Major router and switch
vendors, Service Providers, and test equipment suppliers participate in Isocore
activities. Isocore has major offices in the USA (Washington DC area), Europe
(Paris, France) and Asia (Tokyo, Japan).
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