Turin Networks Inc. said it has introduced the Traverse Multiservice Optical Transport Platform, which the company describes as "a powerful, unified Ethernet + SONET solution for service providers that addresses the challenges associated with delivering high-growth, differentiated packet services over today's resilient SONET-based infrastructure.
Turin's Traverse platform integrates Next Generation SONET Add-Drop Multiplexer (ADM), digital cross connect (DCS) and edge switching in a single compact system that scales economically from DS1 to OC-192 per system slot and supports unprecedented 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet and OC-N densities.
"We worked closely with established carriers to create a solution that integrates with their existing infrastructure and allows them to deploy SONET-based services and native packet services as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible," said John Webley, Turin's President and CEO. "With our Traverse platform, service providers can deliver flexible Ethernet services without having to build an overlay network, or change their current operational models. This speeds time to market and allows them to derive the maximum performance and revenue potential from the existing infrastructure as they migrate economically to next-generation packet services."
Turin's Traverse platform unifies intelligent optical transport with multiservice aggregation and switching in a single carrier-class shelf. Its highly scalable and versatile architecture is based on a groundbreaking custom, distributed ASIC switch-fabric that grooms and switches both time division multiplexing (TDM) and packet-based traffic and provides true "pay-as-you-grow" economics. Applications that previously required multiple shelves of equipment can now be offered from a single compact and powerful system that lowers carriers' operational costs and enables incremental performance and service growth, Turin said.
The scalable Traverse platform provides up to four times the OC-192 density and STS-1 switching/grooming capacity of competitive "Next-Generation SONET" systems, along with an unequaled ability to natively switch and transport Ethernet services as well as traditional voice and private lines. An intelligent, standards-based unified optical control plane and advanced bandwidth management techniques, including virtual concatenation and rate shaping, enable the fast activation and efficient delivery of dynamically scalable Ethernet services. At the same time, a carrier-grade design that supports the full SONET feature set including UPSR, BLSR and 1+1 APS enables the Traverse platform to deliver packet services with a level of quality and reliability that simply cannot be matched by pure "Metro Ethernet" systems.
Currently shipping to several customers, Turin also has trials, or trial agreements, with multiple IXCs and ILECs, an RBOC, and other leading carriers.
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