re: What's to Save Sycamore?"The SN 16000 can terminate rings, meshes, and linear spans on the same box."
From my experience, this is a theoretical truth, not an actual one. The company was/is so mesh-centric in their thinking that UPSR/BLSR features in the software architecure were placed waay back on the priority list. As the old Jeff Kiel mantra goes, "Rings bad, mesh good"....
While the overall control pane arch was pretty good in concept, they ask for too disruptive a network change. Everbody's got rings, so you better support rings, even if you run them as a virtual mesh.
I'm not certain their messaging was ever clear enough on this point to be effective.
re: What's to Save Sycamore?> Ciena took a big chance implementing a > proprietary control plane(to GMPLS), but > understood well the need to evolve the network > and co-exist with rings.
When Lightera developed their control plane, GMPLS did not exist, so there wasn't any "big chance".
re: What's to Save Sycamore?The bubble has burst for Sycamore.With no demand for its products, it cannot survive on a one billion dollars it has stashed away for the benefit of the management team.
Its management team has very rich while the poor workers are being laid off.
With a lot of optical companies closing down and workers are losing their jobs, but founders always have a way to rake money.
re: What's to Save Sycamore?Phanatron: The SN 16000 can also groom indivsual STS-1 between UPSRs, meshes, and linear spans. _______________________________________________________________________________
Yes, it probably can do all of those things, in instances where the line cards have not given up the ghost on first power up.
From my experience, this is a theoretical truth, not an actual one. The company was/is so mesh-centric in their thinking that UPSR/BLSR features in the software architecure were placed waay back on the priority list. As the old Jeff Kiel mantra goes, "Rings bad, mesh good"....
While the overall control pane arch was pretty good in concept, they ask for too disruptive a network change. Everbody's got rings, so you better support rings, even if you run them as a virtual mesh.
I'm not certain their messaging was ever clear enough on this point to be effective.