Alcatel Boosts 7670 Routing Switch Platform

Alcatel is boosting the features and capabilities of its multiservice 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP). Alcatel said the latest release of the platform is optimized to deliver multiple new and existing services on a converged IP/MPLS infrastructure.



New software includes high availability IP VPN rfc2547 service enhancements leveraging the company's ACEIS Non-Stop Routing technology, Ethernet virtual leased line service over MPLS, and Ethernet to Frame Relay/ATM service interworking over MPLS. Improved MPLS service resiliency is provided along with MPLS label switch path "modify without break," which is the ability to increase the bandwidth of a label switch path without disrupting service.

New hardware includes a channelized multi-rate 48-line card (MR48). This card supports 2.4 Gbps of wire-rate IP, MPLS and ATM forwarding, including concurrent routing and signaling protocols for IP/MPLS and ATM private network to network interface on the same port. Fully software configurable, the MR48 card enables any service on any port using any protocol.



Separately, Alcatel announced that Proximus, the leading mobile communications network operator in Belgium, has deployed the first phase of a data backbone network for 3G mobile communications using the Alcatel multiservice network solution. The Proximus high-speed data transfer mobile network is based on the Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP) and the Alcatel 5620 Network Manager, a managed, single-platform solution that supports aggregation and transport network consolidation of all generations of mobile traffic. http://www.alcatel.comRecently, Korea Telecom and India's VSNL announced they would deploy the Alcatel 7670 RSP for nationwide MPLS-based IP-VPN delivery; British Telecom will use it to deliver Ethernet services; and Slovak Telecom selected it to provide the IP/MPLS backbone network needed to move to a next-generation packet infrastructure for voice and multimedia services.