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News Release from: Galazar Networks | Subject: CopperNode and CopperNodeHE
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 November 2006
IC package puts Ethernet over existing
copper
Galazar Networks has expanded its portfolio of carrier Ethernet transport solutions with the introduction of its CopperNode and CopperNodeHE products.
Galazar Networks has expanded its portfolio of carrier Ethernet transport solutions with the introduction of its CopperNode and CopperNodeHE products This highly integrated solution family is targeted at delivering Ethernet services over the widely deployed and reliable, copper based PDH infrastructure that serves over 90% of enterprise locations and cellular basestation sites
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In order to support advanced, packet based mobile applications, cellular equipment at both the basestation and the network controller are being evolved to an IP based architecture with Ethernet interfaces.
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At the same time, carriers want to serve the small to medium enterprises that represent over 80% of their customer base without costly deployment of new fibre.
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Together, these trends are driving fixed and mobile service providers to seek Ethernet transport solutions that can be reliably delivered over the dominant DS1/E1 PDH based copper access infrastructure.
These solutions must provide the same reliability and robustness that has been expected of time domain multiplexed (TDM) traffic over the PDH network, combined with bandwidth efficiency and flexibility.
ITU standardised technologies such as generic framing procedure (GFP) and virtual concatenation (VCAT) with link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS) have delivered these benefits to Sonet/SDH and, with these new devices, have been extended to do the same for PDH.
Virtual concatenation based bonding of DS1/E1 along with efficient GFP encapsulation provide an ideal solution for delivering Ethernet services in the 5 to 25Mbit/s range demanded by small and mid-sised enterprises, and by HSDPA and 1xEV-DO based cellular basestations.
The CopperNode and CopperNodeHE Ethernet over PDH products join Galazar's existing broad portfolio of Ethernet over Sonet/SDH solutions such as MSF250, VersaNode, CompactNode and RadioNode and enjoys the same look and feel for both hardware and software interfaces.
All Galazar IC solutions are packaged with comprehensive device management software, documentation and support which has enabled remarkable acceleration of design and integration to greatly reduce time to market in the development of industry leading media conversion, MicroMSPP and MSPP solutions available today.
This application focused approach allows system integrators to rapidly develop a range of platforms based on reusable Galazar IC and software technology.
CopperNode and CopperNodeHE hardware and software design tools will be available in Q4 of 2006.
CopperNode, CopperNodeHE and associated software packages will be available in Q1 of 2007.
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