Siemens debuts SURPASS hiT 7300 for regional, long-haul applications
SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 -- Siemens Communications (search Siemens) today announced the U.S. introduction of its SURPASS hiT 7300 optical transport platform, which it claims is a highly automated yet low-cost transport platform for regional and long-haul applications.
According to the company, this debut comes soon after market research firm Infonetics announced that Siemens holds a No. 1 global position in the long-haul reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) market, with a 35% year-to-date revenue share and #1 market leadership in 2005.
Thanks to an intelligent automation strategy, the new Siemens SURPASS hiT 7300 platform combines the simplicity of metro systems with the performance of long-haul systems, explain company representatives. This intelligent automation strategy minimizes complexity, which, in turn, reduces procedural errors and simplifies network turn-up, operation, and maintenance--with savings of more than 60%, based on actual monitoring of build service costs to date, Siemens reports.
With the SURPASS hiT 7300 DWDM transport platform, Siemens has realized a clear objective: to reduce the necessity for onsite work to an absolute minimum and to automate system setup to a major extent. Anything else that is required in terms of configuration, monitoring, or software updating, is carried out from a central location.
"Siemens has enhanced its competitiveness with the SURPASS hiT 7300, addressing service operator requirements for scalability, flexibility in service interfaces, and reduced operating expenses for service provisioning," notes Dave Dunphy, research director of Network Infrastructure at Ovum-RHK. "The hiT 7300 also offers service providers a migration path to automatically switched optical networks, giving them a means to increase network reliability and address the increasingly dynamic service needs of end customers."
What's more, its low cost makes these benefits available to many network operators who may not have previously considered DWDM before. "The SURPASS hiT 7300 is an extremely flexible, cost-efficient way for network service providers, small and large, to deploy DWDM in their networks," contends Harald Braun, president, Networks Division, Siemens Communications Inc. "Its proven features and automation capabilities can help make networks increasingly transparent, with service provisioning in minutes instead of months, and total cost-of-ownership reduced by as much as one order of magnitude. That payback alone really makes a compelling business case," he says.
SURPASS hiT7300 offers the key ingredients of flexible and dynamic optical networking including OADM, ROADM, and photonic cross connect (PXC) options. Ethernet, SONET/SDH, SAN, or OTH service interfaces are available to be remotely provisioned via software commands.
The SURPASS hiT 7300 platform's range of throughput capacity from 2.5 Gbits/sec to 3.2 Tbits/sec and topology flexibility from point-to-point to rings to meshed networks offers service providers tremendous flexibility, says the company. Deployments can range from passive, unamplified 8-channel Coarse WDM (CWDM) for smaller metro access applications, all the way up to active, amplified 80-channel DWDM applications for long-haul and ultra-long-haul.