Verilink announced plans to extend its Orion 7400 Optical Multiservice Access Transport Platform for SDH-based Optical Ethernet transport services. The Orion 7400, which currently supports Ethernet over SONET (EoS), can be used for fiber extension beyond the reach of existing metro rings for the delivery of Ethernet-based services as well as traditional TDM services. The Orion 7400 can also be used for upgrading legacy SONET and SDH Add/Drop Multiplexers (ADMs) to enable the delivery of Ethernet services.
The 1RU high Orion 7400 incorporates standard Generic Framing Procedure (GFP)-based Ethernet over SONET technology, including LCAS and both Low-order (VT1.5/VC-12) and High-order (STS-1/VC-n) Virtual Concatenation (VCAT), enabling the provisioning and delivery of flexible bandwidth levels in small 1.5/2Mbps or large 34/45 Mbps increments.
In the U.S., the SONET version of the Orion 7400 is undergoing customer trials at several major domestic carriers, including an RBOC, an IXC, and several CLECs. The company plans to introduce the SDH version of its Orion 7400 product line in the first half of 2005. http://www.verilink.com
- Verilink acquired Larscom earlier this year. Larscom offers a range of metro access products, including optical edge access multiplexers for both TDM and Ethernet over SONET, integrated access devices (IADs), inverse multiplexers and CSU/DSUs.
