Alcatel-Lucent has introduced two new IP routers – the 7750 SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4. They are designed to give service providers an economically viable alternative for offering smaller communities the same advanced mobile, residential and business services currently delivered in larger metropolitan areas.
The new products, which will expand the addressable market of Alcatel-Lucent’s industry-leading Service Router portfolio, will extend the benefits of service routing further out into the network.
The introduction of these two new routers is an extension of Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 Service Router (SR) family. Both the 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 7750 SR-c12 and 7750 SR-c4 are powered by the FP2 chipset, Alcatel-Lucent’s breakthrough silicon which delivers sophisticated and optimized network processing and traffic management at speeds up to 100Gb/s. They 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).
“With these additions, Alcatel-Lucent is effectively extending a proven, feature-rich platform to address new market opportunities where they need the capacity and capability, but at a more cost-effective price points,” said Glen Hunt, Principal Analyst, Carrier Infrastructure, Current Analysis. “The elegant integration with the existing portfolio, especially with a single operating system from end-to-end, makes it attractive to operators who are looking to deliver full featured, high-performance services from their smaller or more remote points of presence in order to drive new revenues.”
Over 280 service providers in more than 100 countries around the world have selected the Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS portfolio as key elements of their IP transformation. According to Ovum, Alcatel-Lucent holds the No. 2 position in the IP/MPLS Edge market segment.
