AMS-IX Network Grows Further With DWDM Technology From MRV
April 29th, 2010
CHATSWORTH, CA – April 29, 2010 – MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC., today announced that its LambdaDriver™ series dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) equipment will enable the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the world’s largest public Internet exchanges, to continue to grow in its inter-switch infrastructure. AMS-IX interconnects networks for more than 350 IP network providers, carriers, content providers and the like. MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading supplier of optical communication systems and related networking equipment, and services for high-speed carrier and enterprise networks and specialized aerospace, defense and other communications networks.
AMS-IX recently moved to a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)/ virtual private LAN services (VPLS) setup to continue to grow beyond the limitations of a pure layer 2 platform, for which larger switches or switches with 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports were not available on the market yet. “Meanwhile, in a few months we will move to a double density blade allowing the Brocade's NetIron MLX32 routers we use to support 256 10-Gbit/s Ethernet ports each,” says Henk Steenman AMS-IX CTO. “However”, he adds, “this blade does not have integrated optics. The edge and core routers with double-density blades will therefore have to rely on DWDM systems to connect to one another,” explaining the addition of the MRV systems to the exchange infrastructure.
The network has a total capacity 2.2 Terrabits divided over 220 x 10 Gigabit in a quadruple redundant hub/spoke topology. The developments in the optical transport market are going fast and AMS-IX will move towards 100 Gigabit DWDM links in 2011.
“The sheer bandwidth needed by AMS-IX demonstrates to the industry that the LambdaDriver can scale to service even the largest, most high performance networks,” said Noam Lotan, chief executive officer of MRV Communications. “Another key component is the low latency delivered by our optics, which helps in these data center applications where real-time performance is critical.”
”The optical transport market continues to heat up, and we’re expecting to see WDM bandwidth double over the next few years,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst, carrier and data center networks for Infonetics Research. “I’ve visited the AMS-IX and seen their innovative network in the past--this latest installation puts the Internet exchange in good position to grow to meet this challenge.”
About MRV's LambdaDriver Platforms
MRV’s LambdaDriver is its premiere optical transport system for building high-performance enterprise access, metropolitan carrier and long haul transport networks. The LambdaDriver is a multi-functional, compact, modular WDM system that supports both dense wavelength division multiplexing and coarse wavelength division multiplexing technology. LambdaDriver also serves as a packet optical transport system by integrating Carrier Ethernet connection-oriented services and reconfigurable OADM for automated optical mesh topologies with wavelength-level switching. The LambdaDriver series can support data rates from 8 Mbps up to 40 Gbps with seamless future upgrades to 100 Gbps.
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of packet switching, packet optical (P-OTS), physical layer and out-of-band networking equipment, services and optical components for high-speed carrier and enterprise networks and specialized aerospace, defense and other communications networks. Through its wholly owned subsidiary SourcePhotonics, Inc., the company provides optical communications components for carrier access and fiber-to-the-premises applications. MRV markets and sells its products worldwide, with operations in Europe that provide network system design and integration. For more information please call (978) 431-5011 or visit our websites at www.mrv.com and www.sourcephotonics.com.
AMS-IX
AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is a neutral and independent Internet exchange providing services since the early 1990s. AMS-IX is one of the largest Internet hubs worldwide. More than 350 Internet-facing networks come together in Amsterdam from all over the world to exchange Internet traffic. The AMS-IX platform provides professional, high quality, non-blocking peering services for Internet traffic with a diverse profile be it regular IP data such as e-mail but also video/TV, as well as voice. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobile peering point worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX). More information on: www.ams-ix.net
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