[May 29, 2002]

Salira Announces Intelligent Ethernet Passive Optical Network System Designed For Business

Salira Optical Network Systems, Inc. announced the Salira 2000 Platform, an intelligent Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) platform for Fiber-to-the-Business (FTTB) that combines support for native-mode TDM services and IP-centric broadband services. The Salira 2000 Platform is one of the first EPON systems with the intelligence to enable customized Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and real-time dynamic bandwidth allocation on an individual subscriber basis.

Until now, PON devices have been limited in their ability to deliver services to business customers. First-generation PON solutions were based on complex, costly and bandwidth-limiting ATM technology. Residential EPON solutions have focused on delivering consumer-oriented services via Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), mostly in the context of greenfield developments, and absent requirements for QoS or flexible SLAs.

In contrast, the Salira 2000 Platform leverages Ethernet's simplicity and scalability to reduce the cost of provisioning broadband services to businesses. The platform, which is designed to carrier-class standards, supports both native-mode TDM services and IP-centric multi-services. Salira supports legacy TDM services by transporting TDM traffic in its native protocol over dedicated bandwidth without any protocol encapsulation, conversion or translation. In this way, service providers are able to maintain their revenue from traditional services.

The platform's unique distributed intelligence architecture enables service providers to deliver customized services to meet the specific needs of individual customers. The Salira 2000 Platform delivers customized bandwidth to individual customers by enabling differing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) at the customer port level. For IP-based services, the platform allocates bandwidth in real time to meet actual customer demand according to Class of Service parameters and robust QoS.

The Salira 2000 Platform consists of the Salira 2500, one of the industry's highest port density optical line terminals, and the Salira 2300, the first multi-customer, optical network unit. The platform is driven by the Salira Access Operating System, and it is provisioned and managed by the Salira Access Management system.

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