World Wide Packets announced today two new additions to the LightningEdge product family that allow service providers to offer Virtual Private Services (VPS) delivered over Ethernet and/or MPLS.
The LE-54v Access Portal and LE-311v Access Concentrator give carriers the power to extend the services and capabilities of an MPLS core network directly to their business and residential subscribers.
With two, 1 Gb Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) optical Ethernet ports and eight 10/100 Mb copper subscriber ports, the LE-54v is a compact, high-performance customer service demarcation platform for ring-based topologies that offer QoS protection.When deployed with a single, 1 Gb optical Ethernet connection to the network, the second port can be configured as a subscriber interface. The LE-311v is equipped with four, 1 Gb SFP optical Ethernet ports, twenty-four 10/100mbps copper subscriber ports, and supports one or two pluggable AC or DC power supplies in a compact one rack-unit enclosure. Both the LE-54v and LE-311v support large numbers of MAC addresses and MPLS labels to enable cost-efficient large-scale subscriber deployments.
The LE-54v and LE-311v support any variant of LDP, RSVP, and BGP signaling protocols, enabling service providers to automate provisioning beyond the MPLS core switching platforms directly to the subscriber demarcation points. This empowers service providers to extend the operational cost-benefits of their MPLS infrastructure directly to the subscriber with the potential to dramatically lower ongoing operational expenses.
