Ciena Corp. (CIEN) announced Monday two new products: its 5400 family of reconfigurable switching systems and its CoreDirector FS Multiservice Optical Switch.
The 5400 family is a series of multiterabit Ethernet, OTN and TDM switching systems with integrated transport functionality that can be configured and reconfigured at any time for a variety of high-capacity optical, TDM or packet functions, including optical cross-connect switching, optical transport, Carrier Ethernet switching or converged packet-optical networking. So, Ciena’s 5400 family can be used to address immediate service needs, such as carrying packets across TDM infrastructure, and reconfigured in the future to migrate those networks to Ethernet and OTN.
The 5400 family integrates its own patent-pending technology with configurable components from Ciena’s other products, including the control plane of CoreDirector, OTN and FlexiPort technology of the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform and the True Carrier Ethernet functionality of the Carrier Ethernet Services Delivery (CESD) portfolio.
Initial products in the 5400 family will include the 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System and the 5410 Reconfigurable Switching System. The first release of the 5430 is a 44 RU, 30-slot system with 3.6tbps of capacity, while the 5410 is a 22 RU, 10-slot system with 1.2tbps of capacity. Both platforms are designed to scale beyond the initial capacities, up to 7.2tbps, as market demand evolves. All members of the 5400 family will share modules and software so customers can optimize each switch for the application, bandwidth, space, power and cost requirements of specific locations in their network.
Initial 5400 Reconfigurable Switching Systems will be in lab trials with customers later this year with general availability in the first half of 2010. Additional enhancements and platforms are expected to be available later in 2010.
A key ingredient in the 5400 family is Ciena OneOS, common service-aware operating software that unifies capabilities and behaviors as well as provides network and service awareness. With OneOS, Ciena products work together across the network enabling solutions that span the data, control and management planes to create highly-differentiated, automated and resilient optical and data services.
