PARIS -- Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today announced the industry's first complete carrier-class metropolitan Ethernet solution incorporating the Alcatel OmniSwitch 7000 and 8000 series of products. OmniSwitch features Smart Continuous Switching (SCS) - a unique feature that provides industry-leading availability which, when combined with high-density, carrier-test-lab-proven hardened software, and cost-optimized Ethernet connectivity, makes the Alcatel OmniSwitch the industry's only carrier-grade metro Ethernet switch.
"Alcatel is one of few vendors close enough to the customer to build products for the metropolitan Ethernet network, and experienced enough to incorporate all the required carrier-class features," says Michel Rahier, President of Alcatel's fixed networking activities. "The OmniSwitch's impressive reliability and ease of management help carriers slash costs while attacking the high-growth Ethernet market with profitable services such as virtual private networks (VPNs). OmniSwitch is the right product at the right time - it cuts costs while increasing revenues."
The OmniSwitch is a participant in the Metro Ethernet Forum's (MEF) first-ever public multi-vendor interoperability demonstration June 3-5 at Supercomm, in Atlanta, Georgia. The network demonstration is composed of equipment from 28 MEF member companies. As a founding member of the MEF, Alcatel works with service providers and other vendors to advance metro Ethernet service adoption and vendor interoperability in this important market.
The Alcatel metro Ethernet solution will be demonstrated at Supercomm in Booth # 21923.
Alcatel SA