The new feature release, available immediately, doubles the performance and scalability capabilities of the CPX, an innovative module set for the Company's DNX-11/88 multiservice cross-connect platforms. The CPX solution enables network operators to cost-effectively migrate from TDM to IP in transmission networks while ensuring reliability for end-user services and critical SS7 signaling traffic.
Designed to integrate circuit and packet processing functionality in a highly compact, multiservice cross-connect system, the DNX 11/88 with a CPX interface now supports up to 1024 DS0s or 32 T1/E1 virtual WAN connections. By doubling CPX performance and scalability, Sycamore customers can respond to traffic growth with little or no additional equipment or rack space. The new CPX software release also delivers improved link utilization and reporting features that enable network operators to simplify performance management and improve capacity planning. These enhancements provide the tools to more effectively monitor SS7 and IP traffic loads and proactively preempt network congestion and traffic bottlenecks as the network scales.
"As emerging broadband applications place greater pressure on existing SS7 networks, service providers need practical and cost-effective ways to accommodate increased signaling traffic without sacrificing network reliability," said Jim Mooney, vice president of product management and marketing, Sycamore Networks. "These new feature enhancements allow network operators to further optimize their networks for TDM to IP migration while delivering the performance levels required for a new generation of IP-enabled SS7 signaling network elements."
Empowered by a unique IP forwarding engine, the DNX/CPX solution integrates IP/Ethernet traffic with traditional circuit-based services to facilitate cost-effective migration within a single network element. Fully interoperable with Ethernet/PPP-compliant routers and SS7 signaling network elements, the CPX module set aggregates circuit traffic onto higher-speed uplinks in traditional DCS grooming fashion; it also routes downstream traffic from multiple networks into a statistically multiplexed packet-switched uplink to optimize bandwidth in the packet network. Since both circuit and packet functions are located in the same network element, network operators can mix and match traffic for maximum efficiency, control, and robustness. In addition, innovative IP/Ethernet test access features bring all the circuit-based, carrier-grade diagnostics and test facilities of DNX cross-connect platforms to packet switched networks. The DNX/CPX solution extends traditional MonE/F testing to IP/Ethernet, and simplifies Sigtran testing and troubleshooting, with support for simultaneous remote monitoring of up to seven Ethernet ports. -Sycamore
