OPTISWITCH® 900 (OS900) Demarcation Series increases revenue stream for
Ethernet carriers with multilayer remote provision and management and
dynamic QoS on demand
CHATSWORTH, Calif., October 17,
2006 -- MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Nasdaq: MRVC), a leading provider of
products and services for Metro Ethernet Demarcation and Ethernet Access, WDM
and optical transport, out-of-band networking, fiber optic components, 10GE and
other service aware networking solutions, today announced the
OptiSwitch 900 (“OS900”) series, a compact, carrier-class Metro Ethernet
demarcation device designed to deliver managed Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet
carrier services with advanced Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) for network
demarcation.
The
OS900 series is built on MRV’s pioneering work in Ethernet demarcation and
is compliant with the Metro Ethernet Forum (“MEF”) services. As part of the
carrier Ethernet commitment, the OS900 successfully passed the traffic
management MEF 14 certification for compliance with all three services defined
for Metro Ethernet, including Ethernet Private Line (“EPL”), Ethernet Virtual
Private Line (“EVPL”) and Ethernet LAN (“E-LAN”).
The
MRV OS900 is optimized to bring cost-effective VLAN-cross-connect, enhanced
L2 and L3 Ethernet switching and intelligent traffic management to network
demarcation, enabling carriers to provision new Gigabit services on-demand with
automated traffic management, using an innovative CoS-aware rate limit to
dynamically reuse bandwidth profiles in real-time. Additionally, the OS900
allows for the future extension of an MPLS domain to the demarcation point via
the tunneling of layer 2 pseudo-wire VPNs or hierarchical virtual private LAN
services (“H-VPLS”) for MTUs.
The OS900 demarcation series is equipped with the optimal port-count of Gigabit
Ethernet customer-facing and network-facing ports. It features 10K Jumbo frames
transmission, 802.3ad provider bridging (QinQ), 50ms service protection and
advanced automated device management through operations, administration and
maintenance (“OAM”). These innovative features help carriers isolate faults in
the network, determining if the problem is on the carrier’s or the customer’s
side of a connection.
The OS900 series is a compact system (only 1U-high and 8.45 inches wide) giving
carriers the option to mount two per rack for optimal dual homing protected
services. The OS900 demarcation series is currently comprised of two models: the
OS910 and the OS912.
The
OS910 has eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports for connecting to customer
networks, and two SFP slots. The SFP pluggable optics offers versatile
connectivity, supporting either Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet optical
connectivity, including single fiber and WDM fiber-optic connections. The
OS912 offers two additional optical ports.
“Through MRV’s OS900 Ethernet Demarcation system, we have answered the Carriers’
demands for a means to address the growing customer demand for managed Gigabit
Ethernet services” said Noam Lotan, MRV president and CEO. “The introduction of
the OS900 series to premium customer was easy, thanks to the OS900’s ability to
create new revenue streams for Carriers by offering intelligent L2VPNs and
L3VPNs Gigabit demarcation services together with leading management and
provision capabilities, enabling the Carrier to provide next-generation service
on demand. “
To provide enhanced OAM and service capabilities, the OS900 Metro Demarcation
technologies include advanced real-time fiber performance monitoring on the
fiber network side and cable testing on the user UNI interfaces, with
performance and SLA monitoring, less than 50ms protection, hardware-based
multilayer QoS protection to protect the service and the device, remote loopback
on an interface level or specific VLAN, VLAN based remote sniffer, and
simplified service provisioning with innovative CoS-aware rate limit to
dynamically reuse bandwidth profiles. These multilayer management and service
enabling functions contribute to improved efficiency, increased effectiveness
and increase the revenue stream for Ethernet carriers.
Availability
The OS900 Ethernet Demarcation is available immediately from MRV’s network of
resellers worldwide. More information is available at
www.mrv.com.
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. (“MRV”) is a leading provider of network equipment and
services, and optical components. MRV’s networking business provides equipment
used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service
providers, and includes switches, routers, physical layer products and
out-of-band management products as well as specialized networking products for
aerospace, defense and other applications including voice and cellular
communication. MRV’s optical components business provides optical communications
components for metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the-Premises applications,
through its wholly owned subsidiary LuminentOIC, Inc. MRV markets and sells its
products worldwide through a variety of channels, including a dedicated direct
sales force, manufacturers' representatives, value-added-resellers, distributors
and systems integrators. MRV also has operations in Europe that provide network
system design, integration and distribution services that include products
manufactured by third-party vendors, as well as internally developed and
manufactured products. Publicly traded since 1992, MRV is listed on the NASDAQ
National Market under the symbol MRVC. For more information about MRV and its
products, please call (818) 773-0900 or visit our websites at
www.mrv.com and
www.luminentoic.com.
Media Relations
MRV Communications, Inc.
David Rodewald
(805) 494-9508
pr@mrv.com
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