Alcatel-Lucent Launches IP Optical Backbone
The company's Converged Backbone Transformation is designed to trim transport costs, reduce operational capacity, and keep up with mounting demands on network transmission.
September 16, 2009
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Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a converged IP optical backbone product that is designed to trim transport costs, reduce operational capacity, and keep up with mounting demands on network transmission.
Announced Wednesday, Alcatel-Lucent's Converged Backbone Transformation is part of the firm's High-Leverage Network strategy, key pieces of which have already been selected by some service providers.
Qwest Communications is using the Alcatel-Lucent solution to help roll out Qwest's nationwide backbone network. In a statement, Qwest chief technology officer Pieter Poll said, "Qwest is working with Alcatel-Lucent to evolve our nationwide backbone network to reach industry-leading 100 gigabits per second speeds by implementing Alcatel-Lucent's LambdaXtreme and 7750 Service Routers."
The Alcatel-Lucent solution is designed to more tightly integrate IP and optical transport resources to help deal with the rapid growth of traffic over networks. The company -- formed by a merger of France's Alcatel and the United States' Lucent Technologies -- is situating intelligent control plane integration between optical and IP layers. In the process, optical and IP portfolios are on the way to supporting 40-gigabit and 100-gigabit speeds in data planes.
Alcatel-Lucent noted that its Converged Backbone Transformation product features a broad range of traffic solutions that are aimed at increasing network efficiency and help pinpoint the most economical layers in networks. These include wavelength-level, port-level, and sub-port-level grooming of IP traffic.
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