Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router
Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 Service Router delivers next-gen IP services to over 270 service providers. SR OS Release 7.0 introduces enhanced feature and services scale leveraging the FP2/IOM3 capabilities, a new switch fabric and additional I/O modules. (8/31/2009)
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Cisco 7600 Series
Cisco’s 7600 is the cornerstone of its service provider IP NGN edge offering and it continues to receive a steady stream of performance and feature enhancements to support emerging NGN network applications such as in-line video quality monitoring. (7/3/2009)
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Cisco XR 12000
The XR 12000 series is one of the cornerstones of Cisco’s service provider IP NGN edge offering. Now positioned as an edge platform, it leverages IOS XR to deliver solid edge services in concert with the 7600. (7/3/2009)
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ECI Telecom ST-series 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. (7/2/2009)
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Ericsson SmartEdge Series
Ericsson’s SmartEdge Multi-Service Edge Router addresses service provider needs in key IP edge application areas, such as next-gen subscriber management, triple play services, Ethernet aggregation, session border control and security. (7/2/2009)
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Juniper Networks M320 Multiservice Edge Router
Juniper’s M Series, an integral part of its Intelligent Services Edge strategy (ISE), benefits from innovations such as JUNOS, MPLS Plug N Play and the multiservice PIC-based applications to deliver advanced services. (7/3/2009)
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Tellabs 8800 MSR
Tellabs’ 8800 multiservice router continues to bolster its position in mobile backhaul and business services, where it provides a rich set of QoS and service delivery capabilities to help operators meet challenging new network service objectives. (7/2/2009)
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- Sections
- - Current Perspective Rating
- - 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
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