Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave® Platform—a multi-terabit programmable coherent DWDM packet switch— addresses the growing need to efficiently aggregate and switch large quantities of packet traffic while guaranteeing stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs), revolutionizing the capital and operational economics of 10GbE and 100GbE services in metro and regional networks.
As data center and end-user applications continue to proliferate, packet-dominated traffic is surging, running from user to content and from content to content. This growth creates significant changes to the patterns, dynamics, and scale of traffic within metro networks. The 8700 is purpose-built to provide seamless, MEFcompliant services, together with L3 services, over a carrier-class, connectionoriented infrastructure. The 8700 uses both MPLS-TE and MPLS-TP, with future support of segment routing for further scalability and programmability.
Due to continued bandwidth demand growth in metro networks worldwide, this particular part of the global network infrastructure has become crux of network transformation opportunity. The rising popularity of 10GbE and 100GbE ports, connections, and services has created a new business requirement for optimized 10GbE to 100GbE switching and aggregation that leverages the very latest in packet networking and Ciena’s WaveLogic 3 Nano 100G coherent DWDM optical technologies. Available in both 4-slot and 10-slot variants (counting only I/O slots) the 8700 provides 1G/10G/40G/100G ports with up to 680Gb/s per slot, for a total non-blocking capacity of up to 2.7 Tb/s (4-slot) and 6.8 Tb/s (10-slot).
| CIENA Corporation | |
|---|---|
| Product Category | Network Equipment |
| Product Number | 8700 |
| Product Name | Service Delivery Switch |
| Network Equipment | Switch |
