Enterprise customers seeking to maximize their investment in metropolitan-area optical networks can now aggregate up to 40 data connections over a single wavelength using the Cisco ONS 15530, Cisco’s new metro DWDM solution, introduced today.
By being able to consolidate multiple information streams over the same wavelength, customers can use more of the available bandwidth, which lowers the total cost of owning and managing their metro DWDM networks. As a result, customers can perform DWDM-optimized applications such as synchronous data replication (and other business resilience applications) at significantly reduced cost points.
In the initial version, a single Cisco ONS 15530 can multiplex up to 40 ESCON or Enterprise Systems Connection channels over one 10 gigabit-per-second wavelength. ESCON is a fiber optics-based storage protocol prevalent in large enterprise data center environments. Without the Cisco ONS 15530’s service aggregation feature, users would need to dedicate a separate wavelength for each ESCON channel. A single ESCON channel, however, operates at 200 megabits per second, which would utilize less than 2 percent of the available bandwidth in a wavelength transmitting at 10 gigabits per second.
The base Cisco ONS 15530 system is list priced at $54,000. The Cisco ONS 15530 is expected to be available in early July.
In other Cisco news, the company announced that Pinnacle West Capital Corp., parent company of APS, Arizona’s largest electricity provider, gained a 400 percent increase in available bandwidth and significantly improved its network’s performance and reliability by deploying a Cisco ONS 15540-based metro DWDM optical network. The vendor also announced that Réseau d'informations scientifiques du Québec (RISQ), Quebec's educational telecommunications infrastructure and service provider, has selected several products from the Cisco Complete Optical Multiservice Edge and Transport (COMET) portfolio. Values of the two deals were not disclosed.
