The
growing demand for higher bandwidth, QOS, packet services, bandwidth heavy
applications, and the increasing pressure to improve ARPU has led to a
pressing need for service providers to reduce cost and provisioning time. To
meet these challenges service providers are moving towards the cost
effective packet networks. The OEMs and service providers are looking at
evolutionary technologies that could combine the best of features of the
existing transport technologies and reduce the deployment and maintenance
cost of a packet network.
Packet
Optical Network Platform (Packet ONP) helps service providers to build a
cost-efficient optical packet network. Packet ONP combines the
functionalities of SONET, SDH, Ethernet, and Dense Wave Division Networking
(DWDM) and provides a solution to build the Optical Network platform for
packet networks.
The new
technology helps service providers to build a cost effective packet network.
Aricent, with its proven expertise and extensive experience in Optical and
Metro Ethernet space, helps manufacturers quickly build Packet ONP solutions
and to reduce the cost of development and testing.
With
more than 500 person-years of experience in Optical and Metro Ethernet
technologies, Aricent has deep domain knowledge, expertise, and scale to
provide software in the packet Optics space. Aricent software services range
from equipment and interface cards to individual modules and features for
various packet optics products.
Aricent
has a well-established practice in the Packet Optical network equipment
domain, which includes development of Control Plane software, Multi-port
Switch/trib card software, Ethernet over SONET/SDH, and testing of DWDM
network elements.
Besides
its expertise in Packet Optics, Aricent also has extensive skills in
developing software for Ethernet Switching devices on various platforms such
as Broadcom, Marvell, Xelerated, Wintegra, Agere, Infineon, and Intel and
for optical switching devices on platforms such as Agere, AMCC, and PMC
Sierra.
Aricent’s expertise in delivering Packet ONP solutions is demonstrated in
the following case studies.
A
leading OEM chose Aricent to develop value added convergence solutions on
its optical platform. Aricent quickly ramped up a team of dedicated
engineers and delivered the solution on time, meeting the customer’s
aggressive time-to-market objective. As part of the project, Aricent
provided software for Multiple GRE based tunneling and drivers for the new
cards of the product to support:
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STM1
and EoS services (RPR, LCAS and EPL),
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Next
generation switching fabric to handle 40 gigabit of data,
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Data
cards to support 10 gigabit of traffic
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L2
packet aggregation and switching
Assuming
the complete ownership of the product line Aricent also provided field
support to the client’s end customers.
A
leading Optical Metro Switch (OMS) vendor selected Aricent to test the black
box of its OMS. Assuming the complete ownership of the project, Aricent
provided testing services such as end-to-end testing of proprietary
switching card; feature and upgrade testing of some of the key product
features such as RPR, Point-to-Point, mGRE (RFC2784), SONMP, and the end-to-
end release testing and hardware regression testing.
With its
proven technical capabilities and experience in Ethernet technologies,
Aricent is a pioneer in providing software solutions for all the network
elements of an Optical Packet Network.
Working
with multiple Packet Optical network equipment vendors, Aricent has acquired
an unmatched expertise in testing packet optical network equipment
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HP
Cerjac for testing SONET / SDH / PDH / J-SDH
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OmniBer for testing OC3/STM1, OC12/STM4 & OC48/STM16 traffic
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Anritsu test equipment for testing OC3/STM1, OC12/STM4, OC48/STM16 &
OC192 traffic
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TektroniX test equipment for testing DS3 & STS1 electrical rate and
OC3/STM1 and OC12/STM4
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Digital Light Wave for testing OC3/STM1 & OC12/STM4 traffic
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SmartBits for testing 10BaseT, 100BaseT & GE traffic
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IXIA
for testing 10BaseT, 100BaseT, GE & 2.5GigE RPR traffic
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Accelar NNI redundancy testing
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Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) test equipment for point to point
traffic testing
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Acterna test equipment for testing DS1, DS3 & STS1 electrical rate and
OC3/STM1 & OC12/STM4 traffic
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Broadcom Ethernet to Optical Converters
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SAN
Tester – SAN Testing