Parama Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, announced a new centralized architecture for SONET/SDH Add/Drop Multiplexers that leverages its ADM-on-a-Chip (AoC) family. The company said it simplified architecture enables network equipment manufacturers to centralize the framing, cross connect and overhead processing functions of SONET and SDH. The architecture enables 50ms restoration in mesh networks, per service protection schemes, and transparent transport services. It also allows vendors to tap the bandwidth in the “overhead” channels for signaling and control purposes throughout the network.
Parama said its design supports simplified control plane implementations such as GMPLS for service provisioning and other tasks.
In addition, Parama has extended its ADM-on-a-Chip (AoC) family with a new device that incorporates eight programmable tributary interfaces to run at OC-3/12 or STM-1/4 rates, two OC-48/STM-16 line interfaces, and 10 Gbps of non-blocking cross-connect. http://www.paramanet.com
- In June 2004, Parama Networks announced that Movaz Networks is using its “ADM-on-a-Chip�? on a number of designs for its Movaz RAY family of wavelength services products, including its new reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer. The companies said the next-generation of transport equipment would drive the convergence of SONET/SDH and DWDM. This is expected to result in lower capital and operating costs, more flexible systems, simpler “per wavelength�? service reconfiguration, a unified control plane, more efficient use of wavelengths via grooming, and a unified network management system.