BELNET, the Belgian national research network for education, research and public communications services, will deploy the Alcatel 7770 Optical Broadband Exchange for its IP/MPLS core. The Alcatel 7770 OBX will also serve as the international gateway for BELNET’S nationwide network and will perform the peering to GÉANT, the European-wide research network sponsored by the EC. BELNET is currently supporting 340,000 users at 150 sites.
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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 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.
- 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 also serves as the peering point for GÉANT.
- The GÉANT network has been in full production service since December 2001, replacing the previous TEN-155 network. Nine circuits at the core of the network operate at 10 Gbps, while eleven others run at 2.5 Gbps. http://www.dante.net
