June 15, 2005 Alameda, CA -- UTStarcom today announced that it will be supplying its NetRing 2500 STM-16 optical transport platform to Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), India's incumbent and largest provider of telecommunications services.
"BSNL is a key customer for UTStarcom in India, currently amongst the fastest growing telecommunications markets globally," says P. Krishna Kumar, director of south Asia operations for UTStarcom.
UTStarcom says its NetRing product line provides aggregation, grooming, crossconnect, and transport functionality to deliver high-density STM-1 to STM-64, PDH (E1/DS1, E3/DS3), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and ATM services in SDH-based carrier networks. According to the company, the NetRing product family combines Add-Drop Multiplexing (ADM), Digital Cross-Connect System (DCS), Ethernet switching, ATM multiplexing and RPR functionality into an integrated, "pay-as-you-grow" multi-service system; the company says all systems support full redundancy, multiple protection options, and in-service upgrades.
The NetRing product line consists of the NetRing 600, 2500, 2500S, and 10000 products. The 600, 2500, and 10000 products comply with ETSI telecom standards for SDH deployment. The company says the products are among the first to support virtual concatenation, based on relevant ITU standards. The company says this functionality provides carriers with provisioning granularity in any STS/VC increment, improving Ethernet/IP transport efficiency across SDH networks.
The products support advanced EoS protocols, such as Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), which provides standards-based data encapsulation for efficient mapping of a wide variety of data protocols, including Ethernet, ESCON, FICON, Fiber Channel, and digital video into SDH. The company says the products' link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS) functionality reduces carriers' operational costs, while increasing service velocity, and improving network reliability. Built-in Ethernet management functionality enables carriers to apply traffic shaping and limiting policies on a per-port or per-traffic-flow basis for point-to-point Ethernet, Ethernet aggregation, Layer 2 switching, and Ethernet VLAN applications. Statistical multiplexing capability allows native Ethernet/data switching and oversubscription.
"UTStarcom's NetRing multiservice transport solution joins our AN-2000 IP DSLAM and Total Control 1000 Multiservice Access solutions that are under implementation in the BSNL network," concludes Kumar. "The NetRing solution will enable BSNL to cost effectively augment their nationwide backbone to efficiently support their rapidly growing broadband and wireless subscriber base in India."