NTT Communications has chosen Turin's Traverse Multiservice Transport Platform to support their Ethernet Leased Line Services in Japan. NTT Com is deploying Turin's Traverse 600 on the customer premises to support its Ether Arcstream service. The Traverse 600 is a compact, multiservice transport solution that combines next-generation SONET/SDH transport and Ethernet switching capabilities in a single platform optimized for metro access applications. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.turinnetworks.com
- Earlier this month, Turin Networks announced that it had reached the 75th customer milestone. The company said it is gaining momentum with Independent Operating Company (IOC) customers and other service providers due to its ability to provide SONET transport, multi-bandwidth management as well as Ethernet capabilities a compact, highly integrated system.
- Turin's Traverse platform integrates scalable OC-3 to OC-192 SONET transport, multi-ring bandwidth management, wideband and broadband DCS, and Ethernet over SONET switching in one system. It is based on a custom, distributed ASIC switch-fabric that grooms and switches both TDM and packet traffic. It supports the full SONET feature set, including UPSR, BLSR and 1+1 APS. It also incorporates a unified optical control plane and advanced bandwidth management system, including virtual concatenation and rate shaping features, as well as capabilities that enable the fast activation and delivery of dynamically scalable Ethernet services.
