Lucent Technologies announced that it has supplied Deutsche Telekom with its first compact optical transport system and switch, the LambdaUnite MultiService Switch (MSS). Deutsche Telekom will start testing the system in February to support and deploy broadband services in its global optical network.
According to Lucent, LambdaUnite MSS, generally available to customers this week, provides a bridge between data-intense metro networks and high-speed optical core networks, connecting cities, campuses and corporate networks to the larger, long-haul public networks.
Lucent claims that LambdaUnite MSS' design has the potential to save service providers up to 90 percent in equipment costs, power, infrastructure and floor space requirements when used in a typical high-capacity central office application. For example, two separate systems can fit into a single rack replacing multiple multiplexers and cross-connect systems needed in previous solutions. In additon, Lucent said the product supports both Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) and enables service providers to seamlessly upgrade their networks to 40G gigabits per second (Gb/s) allowing them to deliver new value-added services such as gigabit ethernet.
The standards-based product is a combination of a time division multiplexing (TDM) optical transport system with built-in switching capacity of up to 640 gigabits per second (Gb/s) per bay. LambdaUnite(TM) MSS' architecture handles a variety of interfaces ranging from 155 megabits per second to 40 gigabits per second and can support bandwidth increases with the addition of a hardware pack.
LambdaUnite MSS is part of the Lucent Lambda family of optical products which includes LambdaXtreme Transport, a long-haul DWDM system, LambdaManager Terabit MultiService Switch (TMSS) and Lambda Router All Optical Switch (AOS). LambdaXtreme Transport and Lambda Manager TMSS are slated to be available later this year.
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