ONI Systems delivers to the optical edge with new transport platform
ONI Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: ONIS), a provider of optical telecommunications systems for metropolitan and regional markets, launched its new ONLINE2500 Optical Edge Service Platform, the latest member of the ONLINE family of optical transport platforms. ONI will showcase a live demonstration of optical edge networks built with the ONLINE2500 at SuperComm Atlanta, June 5-7, 2001, with general availability following in the same month.
Building on the company's current metro, regional and access platforms, the ONLINE2500 transport platform marks ONI's entry into the optical edge, extending high bandwidth services from bandwidth rich core metro networks directly to end-users at the bandwidth starved network edge. The addition of the ONLINE2500 to ONI's comprehensive product portfolio will give service providers a broad selection of ONI products with complete end-to-end optical provisioning and management capabilities, spanning from the network core out to enterprise campuses, high-rise "smart buildings" and inside large enterprise campus networks.
The ONLINE2500 allows service providers to deploy a combined wavelength and services delivery platform by radically reducing both the cost and size of multi-service WDM equipment. The ONLINE2500 advances public networks by enabling a new cost structure for delivering high bandwidth applications like Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and traditional SONET services via WDM wavelengths to the edge of the network.
Incorporating technology acquired from Finisar Corporation, the ONLINE2500 combines multi-wavelength transport with managed wavelength services and multi-service grooming in a compact, modular, 2-rack unit (2RU) chassis. For true managed wavelength services, the ONLINE2500 provides rate and protocol-tunable interfaces with digital wrapper technology. These interfaces can be throttled to service rates between 100 Mbps and 2.5 Gbps and provide comprehensive performance monitoring capability. The ONLINE2500 utilizes coarse WDM technology to provide multi-wavelength capability, supporting up to 8 protected or 16 unprotected wavelengths per ring. The wide wavelength spacing of coarse WDM technology significantly relaxes component tolerances and drives down costs.
Integrating ONI's ONWAVE multiplexer family, the ONLINE2500 also uses sub-wavelength grooming to increase system capacity and reduce system costs. The ONWAVE products combine multiple Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FICON, and SONET/SDH signals into high-speed SONET framed signals. The SONET framed wavelengths are interoperable with legacy gear, enabling long-distance transport of LAN/storage area network (SAN) services. To date, throughput restrictions due to signaling delays have rendered long-distance SAN services impractical. The ONLINE2500 platform enables full bandwidth SAN service delivery at distances up to 6000 kilometers by incorporating sophisticated buffer credits that compensate for protocol signaling delay.
The ONLINE2500 can be integrated with ONI's ONLINE7000, ONLINE9000 and ONLINE11000 transport platforms, allowing network operators to plan, provision and manage services from origination through the core on a single, compact platform. The ONLINE2500, like the entire ONLINE product family, utilizes the OPTX(TM) operating system for wavelength and services management. Like ONI's existing portfolio, the ONLINE2500 provides internal management channels to simplify and streamline service monitoring and provisioning by eliminating the need for a separate overlay management network.
ONI will be offering a live demonstration of the new ONLINE2500 transport platform in Booth #7256, Hall G during exhibit hours at SuperComm Atlanta, June 5-7, 2001.
About ONI Systems:
ONI Systems (NASDAQ: ONIS) develops, markets and sells optical networking equipment specifically designed to address bandwidth and service limitations of regional and metropolitan networks. For more information, visit www.oni.com.