Fujitsu enhances SONET platform

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: OPTICAL NETWORKING
06/13/05

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Today's focus: Fujitsu enhances SONET platform

By Jim Duffy

Fujitsu Network Communications last week announced enhancements
to its Flashwave 4100 Multi-Service Provisioning Platform
designed to improve delivery of data services, including
Ethernet-over-SONET.

Fujitsu also announced two OEM deals, including one with edge
switch maker and marketing partner Hammerhead Systems.

The enhancements let carriers offer traditional private line,
Ethernet augmented with Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) technology,
and storage services in a single SONET platform that scales from
OC-3 to OC-48, Fujitsu says.

With this release, SONET, RPR, Generic Framing Procedure (GFP),
Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) and Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme
capabilities have been converged on the Flashwave 4100. This
lets users offer carrier-class 10M bit/sec to Gigabit Ethernet
Line and LAN services with detailed bandwidth provisioning,
statistical multiplexing, class of service and protection
switching, Fujitsu says. New Fibre Channel/Fibre Connection
interfaces provide support for storage-area network services for
disaster recovery, storage consolidation and remote data
mirroring.

New OC-n line and service interfaces include support for Small
Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) technology, intended to minimize
sparing requirements. To increase fiber capacity, the MSPP has
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing interface options
designed to enable multiple SONET networks to share a single
pair of fibers. A new quad-port OC-3 service unit and enhanced
OC-12 line unit offer increased density, Fujitsu says.

The Flashwave 4100 Large Shelf configuration offers OC-3 to
OC-48 line interfaces and 12 service interface slots. The Small
Shelf offers six service interface slots. Both versions share
all plug-in units and SFPs.

For edge switching, Fujitsu will resell Hammerhead's HSX 6000
switch as the Fujitsu Flashwave 6400 Layer 2.5 aggregation
switch. Hammerhead's switches are intended to help service
providers manage the transition of their legacy - but
revenue-rich - data services from an ATM core to an MPLS core,
and tap an Ethernet opportunity pegged by analysts to approach
$20 billion by 2010.

The switch performs Ethernet aggregation, packet-enabled access
and pseudowire termination, and integrates with the SONET/SDH
infrastructure using GFP and X.86 techniques. It competes with
multiservice edge aggregation features of switches from Lucent
and Nortel, and routers from Cisco and Juniper.

Fujitsu says it will also resell BTI Photonics Systems'
Netstender platform as the Flashwave 7120 optical extension
system. This system transports services over spans that exceed
the available fiber capacity or reach of metropolitan optics.

Netstender allows carriers to combine multiplexing,
amplification, signal conditioning, optical add/drop and
performance monitoring in a system deployed in metropolitan and
regional networks.

Flashwave 7120 scales to 23 service slots from multiple shelves,
managed as a single network element with a single processor.
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To contact: Jim Duffy

Jim Duffy is managing editor of Network World's service provider
equipment coverage
<http://www.networkworld.com/topics/service-providers.html>. He
has 18 years of high-tech reporting experience, including over
12 years at Network World. Previously, he was senior editor at
Computer Systems News and associate editor/reporter at
Electronic News and MIS Week. He can be reached at
<mailto:jduffy@nww.com>.
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'Managing Security', and 'Best Practices'.
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