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Wednesday
Nov242010

Cisco's P-OTS: Denser and distributed

Cisco Systems’ carrier packet transport (CPT) product family adds metro packet optical transport to its existing switch and router offerings.

Cisco claims the CPT is its second-generation packet optical transport system (P-OTS), complementing the ONS 15454. But some analysts view the CPT as the vendor’s first true packet optical transport product.

 

"This announcement is an acknowledgement that P-OTS equipment is important and that operators are insisting on it"

Sterling Perrin, Heavy Reading

 

 

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Tuesday
Sep142010

AT&T domain suppliers

Date

Domain

Partners

Sept 2009

Wireline Access 

Ericsson

Feb 2010

Radio Access Network

Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson

April 2010

Optical and transport equipment 

Ciena

July 2010

IP/MPLS/Ethernet/Evolved Packet Core

Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper, Cisco

 

The table shows the selected players in AT&T's domain supplier programme announced to date.

AT&T has stated that there will likely be eight domain supplier categories overall so four more have still to be detailed.

Looking at the list, several thoughts arise:

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Friday
Jul162010

Wireless backhaul: The many routes to packet 

What is being announced?

ECI Telecom has detailed its wireless backhaul offering that spans the cell tower to the metro network. The 1Net wireless backhaul architecture supports traditional Sonet/SDH to full packet transport, with hybrid options in between, across various physical media.

“We can support any migration scheme an operator may have over any type of technology and physical medium, be it copper, fibre or microwave,” says Gil Epshtein, senior product marketing manager, network solutions division at ECI Telecom.

 

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