Alcatel-Lucent introduced the 7750 SR-e service router, a new mid-size form factor series of IP routers as a full-service router for network service edge, offering the same rich suite of applications as a fully fledged service router. The new service router expands from Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 Service Router (SR) family. The new 7750 SR-e variants include SR-1e (400Gb/s), SR-2e (800 Gb/s) and SR-3e (1.2 Tb/s), supporting GE, 10GE and 100GE interfaces.
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The 7750 SR-e platform is also cloud-ready and is a key element in Alcatel-Lucent’s portfolio supporting the evolution of networking to NFV and SDN. According to Alcatel-Lucent, it has attracted over 60 new customers worldwide in its first three months of availability, including India’s Bharti Airtel and Indonesia’s Indosat.
Operators are being driven to push edge service functions out from a few large, centralized sites to a more distributed architecture with many smaller locations to cater for the shift in cloud-based operations, the emerging Internet-of-Things, ultra-high definition video and the ongoing demand for bandwidth, said Alcatel-Lucent.
John M. Thompson, Chief Technology Officer at Indosat
We are using Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 SR-a platforms as aggregation and edge nodes in our mobile backhaul network. One of the key reasons we selected this platform is due to its much higher throughput, service and routing scale compared to other platforms on the market.
Basil Alwan, president of Alcatel-Lucent's Ip Routing and Transport Business
Our ‘Network Function Optimization’ approach recognizes that virtualized and integrated routing solutions will be required for different applications, and that choice will be dictated by the economics and architectural preference of each network operator.
