The Poznañ Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) selected the Alcatel 7770 OBX (Optical Broadband Exchange) for its PIONIER 5,000-km network that will connect all academic optical metropolitan area networks in Poland. The Alcatel 7770 OBX will be deployed as the IP backbone of PIONIER, as well as the peering point into the pan-European research network GÉANT, which connects 32 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Europe. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- The Alcatel 7770 Optical Broadband Exchange (OBX), which replaces the existing 7770 Routing Core Platform (RCP), features an ASIC-driven distributed switching fabric and scales from 100 Gbps to 1.9 Tbps of line card capacity. The 7770 OBX features the Alcatel Carrier Environment Internet Systems (ACEIS) to address both the high-cost of current core routing deployments as well as reliability concerns with exiting routers. The control plane, forwarding plane and management plane are completely separate. ACESIS provides “non-stop�? routing software for BGP-4, OSPF and IS-IS. Alcatel supports in-service software upgrades and selective re-starts. The new 7770 OBX features a standard, half-height rack mountable chassis, compared to a proprietary form factor in the prior system. Various expansion line-card shelves can be located up to 100 meters away from the switching shelf and connected via optical cable. Alcatel is offering dual stack IPv4/IPv6 as well as tunneling support for IPv6 over IPv4. The 7770 OBX also uses a new generation of network processors on each line card.