Ireland’s Intune grants Optical Packet Switch & Transport network contract to Aricent
Telecom Tiger, December 24, 2009
Aricent bagged a contract to develop Optical Packet Switch and Transport network platform capable of supporting NGN for Ireland’s Intune Networks.
Aricent says that while IP and Ethernet are changing the overall nature of communications with the convergence of Ethernet and the Transport Network, a significant bottleneck is posed by the stacked network switching equipment and the associated static optical transport interconnects which continue to exist.
According to Aricent its solution helps Intune to address this issue by virtualizing physical networks through a distributed Layer 2 switch, the advantage being that the resultant network design is a highly simplified network with predictability and quality of performance guaranteed. Aircent claims that the solution also delivers up to 75% reduction in power consumption compared to existing designs.
