Sycamore Networks Expands Suite of Integrated Switching and Transport Offerings

Sycamore Networks, Inc. announced the addition of Optical Transport Network (OTN) capabilities to its suite of integrated switching and transport offerings on the SN 16000 Intelligent Optical Switching Platform.

The Universal Service Card (USC) for the SN 16000 Intelligent Optical Switching Platform supports - on a single card - a range of client service rates and high-speed transport options, including Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, SDH, and in-service pluggable optics. The USC enables the design, configuration, and deployment of different traffic types and converged services over optical transport networks. Leveraging common networking (BroadLeaf) and management (SILVX) intelligence shared by all Sycamore optical switches, the Sycamore OTN solution provides multi-service transport.

The OTN G.709 USC solution supports both the standard Forward Error Correction (FEC) and enhanced FEC optimized for long distance transmission. The standards-based OTN interface module also supports software configurable full C-band tunable optics.

The company also said it is one of ten telecommunications equipment suppliers uniting under the banner of the Optical Internetworking Forum to showcase multi-vendor interoperability in a multi-carrier environment at the OIF's Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration - Enabling Broadband On-Demand Services. In addition to its BroadLeaf control plane technology, Sycamore will feature the SN 16000 Universal Service Card during this multi-vendor interoperability event.

The OIF's fourth worldwide interoperability test and demonstration will be conducted simultaneously at carrier labs in China, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. The event highlights network-interoperable solutions among participating equipment suppliers employing OIF UNI 2.0 and E-NNI implementation agreements. The demo addresses Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) Services over multiple, control plane-enabled intelligent optical core networks with technologies ranging from Layer 2 transport to OTN, the company noted in a release.

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