Alcatel-Lucent is expanding its metro optical networking portfolio by releasing new small form factor optical gears - 1830 PSS-4, 1830 PSS-8 and 1830 PSS-16 - to address the growing needs of service providers and large enterprises in coping with the ever-increasing demand for high-bandwidth data traffic in metro and data center networks. These optical switches which are under the company's 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) portfolio are designed to support any mix of high-performance packet, optical and photonic services.
According to Alcatel-Lucent, the new switches support communications network services such as access aggregation, content delivery, and mobile backhaul and boast a multi-functional technology that supports the network services needed by large enterprises, including data center interconnectivity and wide area networking. In addition, the switches allow both operators and enterprises to scale their network capacity according to traffic demand, allowing them to run optimized networks.
After spending the last few years renovating their core networks for 100G, operators are now moving to upgrade their metro networks. This is the single largest market opportunity and we estimate metro WDM investment will be $35 billion during the next five years. Alcatel-Lucent positioned itself for this opportunity by offering support for photonics, OTN and packet switched services in a single metro platform, a feature that in our research we find operators prefer in the metro.
Sam Bucci, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Terrestrial Optics, Alcatel-Lucent
As traffic continues to grow, operators and enterprises need to deploy optical transport switches specifically tuned for metro applications. By optimizing our 1830 PSS for the metro environment, we are able to offer solutions that are right-sized to help meet transport demand now at low initial cost, with the right scale and switching flexibility, allowing them to grow capacity and deliver services rapidly as demand grows.
