BTI Bandwidth Summer 2009 Edition
FROM THE CEO
Welcome to the June edition of BANDWIDTH.
BTI is riding the HD-video & web services wave with innovative products, solutions and technologies. Over the past year BTI has evolved to address the increasing demand for packet services, greater optical capacity, dynamic networking, and management simplicity in service provider and enterprise networks.
This edition provides insight on how we’re continuing to evolve the BTI portfolio to address diverse customer requirements, positioning BTI in new solution areas, and providing customer confidence with certified solutions. I am also deeply focused on positioning the company for continued growth and to meet the accelerated demand for packet optical networking globally; you can also read about some of the corporate initiatives we’ve undertaken recently.
Greg Koss, CEO
CHIEF ARCHITECT INSIGHT — OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK
Larry Samberg, Chief Architect
The Optical Transport Network, OTN, is a networking architecture developed by the ITU in the late 1990s. It was viewed as a successor to the SONET/SDH infrastructure broadly deployed by carriers but improved upon SONET/SDH in several ways.
There are four primary benefits of OTN (when compared to SONET/SDH): Strong Forward Error Correction, more levels of Tandem Connection Monitoring, Bit Transparent Transport of both synchronous and asynchronous payloads, and more granular and scalable switching.
OTN technology is a common networking strategy across BTI 7000 Series client service modules, continue reading about our use of the technology here.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
Introducing the 8-port Multiprotocol Muxponder
Network initiatives are focused on consolidating low-speed SONET/SDH connections and enabling a more packet-enabled infrastructure with Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for higher capacity and simplified WAN interconnect. It’s not effective to leverage a 2.5 Gbps or 10 Gbps wavelength to transport a single 155 Mbps connection over WDM infrastructure.
BTI’s new 8-port Multiprotocol Muxponder (8-port MXP) provides sub-wavelength aggregation of these connections for a wide variety of protocols used in today’s service provider and enterprise networks onto resilient, 2.5 Gbps wavelengths.
Key Module Features
- Protocol Support: Gigabit Ethernet, SONET/SDH (OC-3/12, STM-1/4), Fibre Channel, and SD-SDI video
- Efficient Ethernet transport with sub- and full-rate bandwidth allocation using GFP and VCAT
- G.709 OTN and SONET OC-48/SDH STM-16 mapping for simplified service interconnect, resiliency, and network interoperability
- Distributed add/drop networking enables cross connecting client signals between any sites sharing the same wavelength
- Superior service and network visibility with extensive optical and protocol performance monitoring
Leverage the 8-port MXP for SONET/SDH ring consolidation, data traffic offload onto Ethernet for wireless backhaul implementations, Fibre Channel data center interconnect, and video distribution network interconnect solutions.
Contact your local sales representative to learn more about BTI’s new 8-port Multiprotocol Muxponder.
BTI 700 Series now MEF Certified
MEF’s globally recognized certification program provides independent validation of equipment interoperability and ensures standardized approaches to Carrier Ethernet service delivery.
Certified solutions dramatically reduce testing costs, time-to-market and installation time for end customers of Carrier Ethernet equipment and services.
The BTI 700 Ethernet Access Series provides intelligent demarcation, extension, and aggregation functionality for simplified distribution of Ethernet and IP services. The entire portfolio is MEF certified. Read more about BTI’s certification initiative here.
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