SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - September 15, 2008) - Cisco (
NASDAQ:
CSCO) today announced the
availability of Carrier Ethernet innovations that help service providers
offer a complete set of compelling services for their customers' Connected
Life at home, at work and on the move. These solutions center on the
Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation
Network (IP NGN) Carrier Ethernet design and numerous key products that
service providers have deployed to scale current services and quickly
enable new ones.
Bandwidth demands are surging due to the increased adoption of consumer and
business services. The "
Cisco Visual Networking
Index (VNI) Forecast and Methodology, 2007-2012" forecasts IP traffic
to increase sixfold between 2007 and 2012, with video representing more
than half the consumer traffic. Similarly, mobile data is expected to grow
by 125 percent from 2007 to 2012. To meet such dramatic increases in
demand, many service providers are turning to Carrier Ethernet to
significantly expand their network capacities and enable them to take
advantage of this opportunity.
"The overall service provider edge and Ethernet markets are seeing sizable
expansion as providers prepare their networks to handle the growing traffic
demands," said Ray Mota, chief strategist and president of consulting at
Synergy Research. "Our research shows that many providers around the globe
are responding favorably to Cisco's encompassing approach to addressing
these requirements, as evident by Cisco extending its market share
leadership in both markets and Cisco's service provider edge share, in
particular, growing by a full 5 points to 57.8 percent since the first
quarter of 2007."
The Cisco Carrier Ethernet design represents key elements of the Cisco IP
NGN architecture that helps enable consistent service delivery that can be
optimized to meet specific demands. The most recent innovations consist
of:
Optimized Business and Consumer Video Services with New Innovations for the
Cisco 7600, 4500 and ME 3400 Series
Cisco has doubled aggregation service capacity with a new Ethernet Series
Plus 40G line card for the Cisco 7600 Series Routers, further extending the
return on investment of this market-leading platform, of which more than
70,000 units have been deployed worldwide. The Cisco 7600 Series 40G line
card delivers line-rate multicast and unicast along with per-subscriber
hierarchical quality of service (QoS). This doubles the Cisco 7600 Series
Routers' rich-services capability and helps enable service providers to
rapidly deploy new services.
This innovation extends the Cisco Internet Protocol over dense
wavelength-division multiplexing (IPoDWDM) capability to the Cisco 7600
Series Router, enabling IPoDWDM in aggregation, at the edge and in the core
of a service provider's IP NGN network. Cisco recently announced
IPoDWDM
enhancements to its CRS-1 Carrier Routing System and XR 12000 Series
Routers.
Additionally, Cisco announced enhancements to two key Ethernet access
platforms. The Cisco ME 4500 Series increases platform switching capacity
by 2.5 times to a total of 160 Gigabits per second (Gbps) and increased its
per-slot capacity four-fold to 24 Gbps while adding increased service
delivery capability, investment protection, simplified operations, and a
green footprint. The Cisco ME 3400E Series, a next generation of the Cisco
ME 3400 Carrier Ethernet Access Switches, is designed to enhance
availability, flexibility, manageability and security for Ethernet business
services.
These enhancements build on an already video-optimized Cisco IP NGN Carrier
Ethernet design, which today offers visual quality experience (VQE), video
connection admission control (CAC) and video monitoring to help ensure a
high quality of experience for the consumer.
Broadband Mobility with new Cisco MWR 2941 and Cisco 7600
Cisco introduced a new cell-site router, the Cisco Mobile Wireless Router
(MWR) 2941, which extends the Cisco mobile-transport-over-pseudowire (MToP)
solution and supports the seamless backhaul of IP radio-access network
(RAN) traffic from the cell site over Carrier Ethernet. The Cisco MWR 2941
thus makes possible a cost-effective fixed-mobile convergence.
This new platform is a key component of the Cisco MToP solution, which also
includes the Cisco 7600 Series Router. It allows operators to backhaul 2G,
3G and evolving 4G mobile traffic from the cell site over Carrier Ethernet.
The increasingly popular approach of using Ethernet for mobile backhaul
dramatically improves the cost-effectiveness of service providers'
operations while providing a foundation for richer mobile services and
seamless fixed-mobile convergence.
Service-level agreement to deliver carrier-class availability
Cisco has also announced a network-availability service-level agreement
(SLA) for its Carrier Ethernet solution based on a foundation of lifecycle
support services. This contractual agreement between Cisco and service
providers offers assurance that best practices are being implemented to
optimize network performance and operational efficiencies.
Telenor Deploys Cisco 7600 Series 40G Carrier Ethernet Infrastructure
Cisco IP NGN Carrier Ethernet technologies integrated directly into Cisco
7600 40G line cards enable service providers like Telenor to offer
"any-play" services as demand increases for converged voice, video, data
and mobility services. Telenor Sweden AB will use the Cisco 7600 Series
40G line cards to provide Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
aggregation services on the company's installed base of Cisco 7600 Series
Routers.
Lars-Åke Norling, head of networking at Telenor, said: "Cisco is giving us
the ability to converge our networks, so we can deliver all services, for
both consumer and business customers, over one common platform. This
development gives us a clear migration path and increased return on
investment for our Cisco infrastructure, which will help us reduce
operating costs and deliver a consistently high quality of experience to
our customers."
"Network convergence is now more widely accepted by service providers to
efficiently and cost-effectively provide converged voice, video, data and
mobility services," said Kelly Ahuja, vice president and general manager of
the service provider routing technology group at Cisco. "Furthermore,
service providers want to achieve additional cost reductions by using IP
next-generation networks to backhaul wireless and mobile traffic, thus
reducing the need to continue investing in legacy TDM and ATM network
infrastructures."
Find More Information Online:
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Cisco IP NGN Carrier Ethernet
Design
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Cisco Web Site
Cisco Service Provider Solutions
Recent Cisco IP NGN Carrier Ethernet News
New Cisco
IPoDWDM Enhancements Transport Service Providers Networks to ''Zettabyte
Era'
The
Cisco Visual Networking
Index Forecast and Methodology, 2007-2012 and the associated updated
"Approaching the
Zettabyte Era" Cisco white paper are part of the
Cisco Visual
Networking Index, an ongoing Cisco initiative designed to provide
quantitative and qualitative information regarding trends in IP network
demand and usage.
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