Marconi Ships Metro 16-64 Platform

Marconi announced the general availability of its optical multiservice, metro 16-64 platform, which is designed to serve as both a high-density service delivery platform as well as a compact, high-capacity traffic aggregation and switching device. The platform combines multiple line rate, Ethernet transport/switching and scalable, fully non-blocking cross-connect capability. The Marconi multiservice metro 16-64 leverages a dual data and TDM bus architecture that supports Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) and Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) solutions. Multiple traffic types are supported from STM-1 through STM-64, PDH interfaces at 1.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 34 Mbps, 45 Mbps, as well as support for 10/100 Mbps and GigE Ethernet services with L2 switching.

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