MRV debuts OptiSwitch 940 intelligent demarcation system for optical Ethernet
AUGUST 10, 2010 -- MRV Communications Inc. has announced the OptiSwitch 940 (OS940) Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)/10GbE multi-port network interface device (NID) for connecting and monitoring enterprise Carrier Ethernet services and mobile backhaul services.
The small form-factor (1RU) OS940 features high-performance, non-blocking switching throughput on all four 10GbE ports and 12 tri-mode (10/100/1000) GbE interfaces and provides carriers with significant savings including minimal power consumption, MRV asserts.
The OS940 is designed to offer service providers a suite of carrier-grade Ethernet services along with high-availability, enhanced quality of service, security, and operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) support. Together, these features offer SONET-like guaranteed service level agreements (SLAs) over an IP infrastructure, MRV says.
The OS940 targets a wide range of aggregation and multi-tenant Carrier Ethernet applications, including business broadband delivery to office parks or buildings such as multiple dwelling units or multiple tenant units, mobile backhaul applications requiring aggregation of data from multiple high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) cell sites, and NID applications supporting both metro Ethernet and SONET/SDH backbone connections where network failover support is required.
The OS940 incorporates hardware-based test tools designed to reduce operational and capital network maintenance costs and enables flexible service awareness and rigid SLAs. To help carriers reduce the cost of testing and provisioning these advanced services across a network built with equipment from multiple vendors, the OS940 includes fully implemented IEEE, ITU, and IETF standards and Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) specifications.
“The Carrier Ethernet equipment market is growing strongly and will continue for the next few years driven by traditional triple play, business applications, and quickly ramping cell site backhaul deployments,” said Michael Howard, co-founder and principal analyst at Infonetics Research. “Over 95% of operators’ Ethernet service revenues come from sub rate GbE and 10GbE services, and we believe the range of demarcation devices backed up by built-in measurements tools will help to differentiate MRV in this market.”
As part of the OptiSwitch Family, the OS940 is supported by MRV’s Pro-Vision, a graphical user interface (GUI) that simplifies end-to-end provisioning, maintenance and management of bonded copper or fiber Carrier Ethernet services.
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