White Rock Networks began shipping a newly enhanced VLX2020 OC-48/192 SONET Transport Platform that provides both a small-office DCS (Digital Cross-Connect System) and an edge Ethernet aggregation platform in a single package. The platform can now pre-groom both packet and TDM broadband and wideband traffic “at the edge” reducing backhaul bandwidth and the port costs associated with large centralized DCS systems, as well as providing an integrated SONET transport and DCS system for smaller central offices. It offers a non-blocking broadband STS-n matrix and optional wideband (VT1.5) matrices together with integrated Ethernet Layer 2 aggregation plus support for multiple subtended UPSR and BLSR rings.
The VLX2020 also allows multiple remote Ethernet-based data-streams to be aggregated into a single GbE “pipe.
White Rock noted that its VLX2020 supports SONET-compliant alarms, performance monitoring, and loop backs, as well as capabilities typically only found in major DCS systems, such as PRBS pattern generation and BER calculation. http://www.whiterock.com
