Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router
Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 Service Router delivers next-gen IP services for over 200 service providers. SR OS Release 6.1 introduces the next generation of silicon, which delivers Terabit performance plus rich service delivery at the network edge. (6/12/2008)

Price: $495

Cisco 10008 Edge Services Router
Cisco’s 10008 provides a strong BRAS edge solution, with competitive scalability and market share leadership, although other edge routers have exceeded its port density and switching capacities. New features include support for Cisco’s ISG. (4/4/2008)

Price: $495

Cisco 7600 Series
Cisco’s 7600 is the cornerstone of its service provider IP NGN edge offering. A steady stream of performance and feature enhancements (to support emerging NGN network requirements) earned Cisco 56% of the multiservice edge router market in 2007. (8/11/2008)

Price: $495

ECI Telecom Edge Switch Routing
ECI's ST-series "all in one solution" for IP edge routing and subscriber management has gained favor at another local exchange carrier, Ringgold Telephone Company, for an integrated platform to support IPTV service offerings. (4/4/2008)

Price: $495

Ericsson SmartEdge 1200 Series Router
Redback’s SmartEdge Multi-Service Edge Router addresses service provider needs in key IP edge network areas, such as next-gen BRAS, triple play services, Ethernet aggregation, and security. The SmartEdge 1200 doubles the system’s capacity. (4/4/2008)

Price: $495

Juniper Networks M320 Multiservice Edge Router
Juniper’s M-series benefits from innovations like MPLS Plug N Play and features to support rapid services creation and deployment plus circuit emulation PICs designed to address mobile backhaul requirements. (4/5/2008)

Price: $495

Laurel Networks/ECI Telecom ST-Series
ECI’s ST-series “all in one solution” for IP edge routing and subscriber management has gained favor at another local exchange carrier, Ringgold Telephone Company, for an integrated platform to support IPTV service offerings. (9/20/2007)

Price: $495

Tellabs 8800 MSR
Tellabs garnered 5% of the multiservice router market in 2007 with its 8800 MultiService Router portfolio, serving the edge switching/routing needs of service providers. The 8800 MSR also provides solutions for mobile backhaul applications. (4/4/2008)

Price: $495

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• - Product Strengths & Weaknesses
• - Product Buying Criteria
• - Product Metrics

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• Buying Criteria
  • Performance and Architecture
    • Performance is the switching and routing capacity and throughput of the system.
  • Service Assurance
    • Service assurance is the ability of the system to deliver highly available and robust services in the event of hardware or software failures, the ability to provide hitless software upgrades, and ability to recover from link or facility failures, the OAM features, and other recovery features.
  • Interface Support
    • Interface support encompasses the LAN and WAN interfaces Supported, Electrical, Optical, POS, WDM.
  • System and Service Management
    • Accounting and management features are defined that enable the service provider to manage the devices, provide support for provisioning, OAM, OSS/BSS integration, security and other specialized applications that may exist within the vendor or vendor/partnership for the product or product family.
  • Footprint and Port Density
    • The size of a platform and the functionality it provides within a given space.
    Routing and Service Features
    • The systems ability to provide routing and service features which includes the platforms ability to provide Ethernet services, the level of routing support, Qualtiy of Service (QoS), Route scalability, MPLS, and Pseudowire support and others.

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• Product Metrics
  • System Performance and Architecture
    • Total Switching Capacity, Gbps
    • Full Duplex Switching Cap.
    • Routing/Switching
    • Service Performance per Slot
    • Rack Density
  • Architecture
    • Switch Fabric
    • Dist. of Intelligence
    • Queuing, Buffering
  • Service Assurance
    • Hardware Redundancy
    • Redundant Power, Fans, Feeds
    • Interface Redundancy 1:1
    • Interface Redundancy, 1:N
    • Redundant Hot Swappable Components
    • SONET APS
    • RPR, Standard/Propietary
    • Resilience/Availability
    • Control, Data, and Management Plane Separation
    • Graceful Restart
    • 50 ms Link Failover
    • MPLS Fast Reroute
    • Non-Stop Switcing/Hitless Layer 2 failover
    • Non-Stop Routing/Hitless Layer 3 failover
    • Non-Stop Services/Hitless Layer 4
    • Hitless Software Upgrade
  • Interface Density
    • 10 Gbps Ports/Chassis (non-blocking)
    • 10 Gbps Ports/Chassis (oversubscribed)
    • 1 Gbps Ports/Chassis (non-blocking)
    • 1 Gbps Ports/Chassis (oversubscribed)
    • 1 Gbps Ports/Rack
    • 10/100 Mbps Ports/Chassis
    • 10/100 Mbps Ports/Rack
    • 100 Mbps Ports/Chassis
    • T3/E3 Ports/Chassis
    • ATM Ports/Chassis (OC-3)
    • ATM Ports/Chassis (OC-12)
    • ATM Ports/Chassis (OC-48)
    • ATM Ports/Chassis (OC-192)
    • POS Ports/Chassis (OC-3)
    • POS Ports/Chassis (OC-12)
    • POS Ports/Chassis (OC-48)
    • POS Ports/Chassis (OC-192)
    • WDM Lambdas/Chassis
  • Features
    • CoS/QoS
    • Hardware-based QoS
    • Number of Forwarding Classes Supported per Port
    • Service-based QoS
    • Interface-based QoS
    • Subscriber-based QoS
    • Rate Shaping/Limiting/Marking
    • Line rate forwarding with all features enabled
    • Layer 2, IEE 802.1p Traffic Prioritization
    • Policy-based Traffic Management
    • Hierarchial QoS
    • Load Balancing
    • Link Aggregation
    • MPLS
    • Routed Protocols
    • Routing Protocols
    • Route Scalability
    • VLANs/Multicast
  • Network Management
    • EMS
    • Fault Management
    • Configuration Management
    • Accounting
    • Performance Management
    • Security
    • Provisioning
  • Physical Specifications
    • Slots/Chassis
    • I/O slots
    • Dimensions
    • MTBF
    • NEBS Compliance
    • Power Requirements
    • Power Draw & Thermal Load
    • Chassis Options
    • System Applications
    • RU
    • Chassis/Rack
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Price (List)
    • Availability
  • Interfaces
    • 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
    • 100 Mbps Ethernet
    • 100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
    • 1 Gbps Ethernet
    • 10 Gbps Ethernet
    • DS-1/DS-3/HSSI
    • ATM
    • POS
  • Additional Information
    • Customers
    • Partners

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