Alcatel-Lucent 1870 TTS Brings Intelligence To The Network

Alcatel-Lucent has introduced the Alcatel-Lucent 1870 Transport Tera Switch (TTS) for service providers to manage the growth of IP traffic in backbone networks. This optical core switching platform, an implementation of the next-generation Optical Transport Network (OTN) standard, gives operators the flexibility to transport IP traffic, including video, at the most cost-effective layer of the network while increasing profitability by freeing up bandwidth for higher value services.

Leveraging the latest silicon innovations, the Alcatel-Lucent 1870 TTS builds on a unique set of features including a proprietary chip, which allows universal switching -- at one terabit per second (TBits/s) -- of any traffic mix on a single chip. The product scales as high as four Tbit/s in its first release and is ‘hardware ready’ to support 8 Tbit/s.

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The Alcatel-Lucent 1870 TTS supports multiple transport networking options, including Carrier Ethernet and SONET/SDH, and offers Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching/ Automatically Switched Optical Network (GMPLS/ ASON) control plane intelligence for added-value applications such as advanced restoration, resource virtualisation and cross-layer automation. Providing seamless integration into existing assets, this enables resilient transport and dynamic bandwidth provisioning across multiple transport networking layers for high network efficiency.

Additionally, the 1870 TTS provides multiple bandwidth management options, giving service providers the flexibility to move transit traffic across lower cost optical infrastructure as appropriate according to service mix and IP traffic destination. The product features an innovative technology, a variable rate ‘virtual container’ called optical data unit flex (ODUFlex), which allows universal traffic grooming between optical transport equipment and IP routers in a manner that efficiently addresses incremental bandwidth growth, in steps as granular as 1Gbit/s.