Alcatel Delivers Optical IP Internetworking With 7770 Routing Core Platform; Product Will Outperform Competition and Enable Profit-Generating "Qualitative IP Services" End-To-End.Business and Technology Editors SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2000 Alcatel (Paris: CGEP CGEP Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (Virginia) CGEP Center for Gifted Education Policy .PA and NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ALA) today announced the introduction of the Alcatel 7770 Routing Core Platform (RCP (networking, tool) rcp - (Remote copy) The Unix utility for copying files over Ethernet. Rcp is similar to FTP but uses the hosts.equiv user authentication method. Unix manual page: rcp(1). ), a multi-terabit IP core router A router that resides within the middle or backbone of the network rather than at its periphery. The routers that make up the backbone of the Internet are core routers. See edge router and WAN router. . Engineered to meet stringent carrier-class requirements, the 7770 RCP enables service providers to deliver differentiated IP services by guaranteeing network performance, a feature critical to the future of wide area networking. "France Telecom R&D is particularly interested in being involved in the definition of the specification of the equipment for the next generation networks at the earliest possible stage. France Telecom is involved for this reason in Alcatel's 7770 RCP partnership program", said Dominique Delisle, France Telecom R&D IP Program Director. "The 7770 provides high performance terabit routing and integration with optical transport which will be an essential requirement in the heart of next generation networks. The Alcatel 7770 RCP has been delivered to France Telecom R&D. Testing is commencing and will continue in the framework of the European Commission European Commission, branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) invested with executive and some legislative powers. Located in Brussels, Belgium, it was founded in 1967 when the three treaty organizations comprising what was then the European Community project ATRIUM." The RCP integrates IP routing with optical transport and provides the basic ingredients for multi-layer restoration, thus providing the architecture Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. need to grow their networks into the next generation. In addition, carriers are able to support premium end-to-end services for their IP customers due to innovative traffic engineering tools and the ability to support differentiated services Offerings that can be classified by type, or quality, of service. For example, a differentiated services network could prioritize real time traffic for a higher fee. across the core. These features are available on a true carrier grade product that continues to deliver full wirespeed routing/forwarding performance and is supported by award-winning network management tools that significantly reduce operations cost. "The ability to offer end-to-end, advanced networking solutions to IP-centric service providers makes the Alcatel 7770 Routing Core Platform a leading alternative for deploying next generation networks," said Michael Kennedy
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (February 27, 1958 – December 31, 1997), was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. , Network Strategy Partners. "The technical strengths of the 7770 RCP combined with Alcatel's unique ability to provide optical integration in a fully managed solution will make it a strong market contender." "The introduction of the Alcatel 7770 Routing Core Platform and the 7420 Edge Services Router, both based upon network processor technology, will make Alcatel a credible vendor in the service provider IP router market," said David Passmore, Research Director, The Burton Group. "We think Alcatel is a player to watch and expect them to become much more visible in this space." "The Alcatel 7770 is the future of reliable IP optical networking," said Dirk Van Den Berghen, Alcatel's executive vice president of Core Data. "Service level guarantees open a market for bandwidth provisioning and brokering that will generate the kind of revenue now seen by TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. and ATM network vendors. With the 7770, bandwidth is no longer a high-speed pipe. Rather, carriers can provide a specific service, with a contract for guaranteed performance and the requisite price tag attached - a business opportunity unique in the current IP world." Alcatel 7770 Features The 7770 RCP deploys a 640 Gb/s high capacity switching fabric that features a built-in ability to scale to 5 Tb/s and 10 Tb/s through in-service upgrades, with low footprint and no forklifts. It is unique in its use of IBM's state-of-the-art, PowerNP network processor and customized application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which allow high system scalability, distributed IP forwarding and wirespeed packet handling. The product deploys a powerful and reliable Phase 2 routing stack, and features high density multi-port POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale interfaces which support speeds ranging from OC-3 to OC-192. It has the ability to support OC-768 in future. The 7770 also supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet and very short range (VSR VSR Very Short Reach (Ciena/Cisco design for high speed, 10Gbps data) VSR Variable Speed Reversible VSR Very Short Reach (optical interconnection; Sprint) VSR Volume Search Radar ) optical interfaces for cost-effective interconnections to local, optics-based transmission equipment. Built-in intelligence that enables sophisticated MPLS-guided traffic engineering, multi-layer restoration, dynamic bandwidth allocation Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) is a technique by which traffic bandwidth in a shared telecommunications medium can be allocated on demand and fairly between different users of that bandwidth. and IP trunking uniquely qualifies the product as a "new breed of IP routers" to the industry. The product is carrier-grade with NEBs L.3 compliance and provides a high level of system reliability. With comprehensive protection schemes for all critical components - such as the switching fabric, route servers, control logic, power feeds and even software residing on the line cards - the 7770 RCP redefines the meaning of carrier grade IP transport. The Alcatel 7770 RCP Release 1 features 1-port OC-192, 4-port OC-48, 8-port OC-12, 16-port OC-3 and 8-port Giga Ethernet ports. Volume shipment begins in May 2001. An entry-level fully-redundant 640 Gigabit system starts at US$290K. About Alcatel IP Alcatel has extensive design and development expertise in X.25, TDM, frame relay, ATM and SONET-based equipment. The recently launched Alcatel 7770 RCP and Alcatel 7420 Edge Services Router, combined with the existing IP, DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing and optical product range - and all managed by a world-leading network and services management suite - now equips Alcatel to offer advanced networking solutions to IP-centric service providers. About Alcatel Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of EURO 23 billion in 1999, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com |
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