China Netcom Corporation will deploy Salira Optical Network Systems' optical access platforms in Beijing and in Changsha City (Hunan province) to deliver advanced voice, video and data services to business customers in a variety of Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) deployments. More specifically, China Network will use the Salira 2000 Platform to connect customers to existing SDH rings in order to deliver traditional E1 TDM services. China Netcom will also use the optical network for Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) for VPN services, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and VoIP. Salira's passive optical network (PON) architecture provides a 1:16 split.
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- In October 2002, China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) certified the Salira platform for commercial deployment. The company has sales offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen.
Salira's Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) platform for Fiber-to-the-Business (FTTB) features support for IP-centric broadband services as well as native-mode TDM services that are delivered over dedicated bandwidth. The ASIC driven platform allocates upstream and downstream bandwidth across the PON based on pre-defined class of service parameters at the port level, thereby enabling uniquely-defined SLAs for individual customers. TDM traffic is delivered transparently without any protocol encapsulation, conversion or translation. Salira's product portfolio will include the Salira 2500, a high port density optical line terminal, and the Salira 2300, a multi-customer, optical network unit (ONU). Each 2500 supports up to 14 optical line cards or PON circuits. Each optical line card supported 16 Salira 2300s that can be located at up to 20 kilometers from the central office on the same PON. The Salira 2300 is configured with eight fixed 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet ports and two bays for modular plug-ins. One plug-in is configured with eight 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet ports, and another contains four T1/E1 ports. The Salira 2300 could be used to support multiple customers from the same PON termination.
Investors in Salira include Mobius (formerly Softbank) Venture Capital, Sofinnova Ventures, Pac Rim Venture Partners and Manitou Ventures.
