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• RBOCs
• ILECs
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• PPTs
• ELECs
• IXCs
• Incumbent and new service provider entrants
Features and Benefits
Industry-leading intelligence
• Any-to-any auto discovery for single point
provisioning
• MPLS VPN and traffic engineering
• Enables SLA enforcement
• Network processor-based design delivers peak
performance with investment protection
• Enables L2-L3 VPN interoperability
Bandwidth flexibility and smart tools
• Tunable bandwidth from 1M to 1000M in 1M
increments without additional network
engineering or customer equipment
• Committed rate and allowable burst using traffic
policing and shaping
• Robust QoS controls mapping a customer's
802.1p/q priority information and supporting
service levels, service type and class of service
Massive bandwidth and performance
• MPLS support optimises use of metro bandwidth
• Best in class 64Gbps full line rate
• Processing power of 96Mpps beats the
competition by 3X
• 4-port MPLS module delivers best-in-class density
(with 8-port upgrade available in a future release)
OPTera Metro 8000 Services Switch
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OPTera Metro 8000 Services Switch
Overview
Service providers looking for ways to scale Ethernet-based services and maximize profitability need look no
further than Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 8000 Services Switch. This new and innovative product delivers
unsurpassed reliability, massive bandwidth, exceptional performance and industry-leading intelligence.
Enabling a distributed logical provider edge model that replaces the complex and expensive fully meshed
metro networks of today with a dramatically simplified hub and spoke model, OPTera Metro 8000 is leading
the Optical Ethernet revolution and delivering on the promise of faster, simpler, more reliable, and more
profitable networks for leading providers. It also is the first product in the industry capable of supporting
any-to-any Layer 2 MPLS transparent LAN and VPN services.
OPTera Metro 8000, featuring the new Optical Services Module, is a flexible component of the new MPLS-
based metro network, delivering intelligence as a provider edge device (PE). The Optical Services Module
brings MPLS VPN and traffic engineering capabilities to the provider edge using an array of programmable -
and field upgradeable -network processors. This innovative networking processing-based design delivers a
potent combination of speed and flexibility -without forklift upgrades. The OPTera Metro 8000 sets a new
standard for delivering Optical Ethernet services such as:
• Highly scalable multipoint Layer 2 VPNs
• Secure high-bandwidth metro access
• Private/leased line replacement
• IP VPN service scaling and interworking
• MPLS-based traffic engineering and SLA support.
The OPTera Metro 8000 is available in four chassis variations, with a 10-slot NEBS-3 certified chassis and 10, 6,
and 3-slot chassis also available.