Alcatel-Lucent Introduces New IP Routers

Alcatel-Lucent has announced the introduction of two new IP routers reportedly designed to offer smaller communities the same advanced mobile, residential and business services currently delivered in larger metropolitan areas. The new products will extend the benefits of service routing further out into the network and also enable mission-critical verticals such as utilities, transportation, healthcare, public safety, and financial institutions to transform their networks to all-IP.

Alcatel-Lucent is extending its 7750 Service Router (SR) family with the introduction of two new routers, the 7750 SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4. Both products are fully featured multiservice routers offering the same rich suite of applications for which the Service Router is known, but in a smaller form-factor, the company said. 7750 SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4 are powered by the FP2 chipset and can deliver network processing and traffic management at speeds up to 100Gb/s. Both also run under the same operating system as the entire Service Router family for seamless inter-working, consistent service delivery and simplified operations.

As the newest members of the Service Router family, the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4 become key components of Alcatel-Lucent's High Leverage Network architecture. "Alcatel-Lucent continues to build out and strengthen its IP portfolio with innovations such as the recently introduced 100GE interface, targeted at massive bandwidth requirements, and now with our new high performance platforms dimensioned for smaller points of presence," said Basil Alwan, President of Alcatel-Lucent's IP activities. "Not only do the new Service Routers deliver outstanding flexibility in their ability to deliver a full range of Ethernet port speeds from 10Mb/s to 10Gb/s, but they're also well suited to programs designed to extend broadband connectivity, which is a driver for economic development in all regions."

The new Alcatel-Lucent Service Routers, the company claims, deliver up to 90 Gb/s of forwarding capacity and can support edge routing interfaces speeds of up to 10GigE with sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS), a highly scalable control plane, and native IPv6 support in hardware. They offer features including non-stop routing, non-stop services, Multi-Chassis-LAG, Multi-link PPP and pseudowire redundancy, and support a wide range of both legacy and Ethernet interface types. Both platforms also run under the Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Operating System (SROS and the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) .