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November 24, 2008
Ericsson joins T-MPLS packet-optical crowd
FierceTelecom: Packet-optical transport has been one of the hottest and most actively debated telecom technology segments of the last 18 months. The initial fascination with provider backbone transport (PBT, also called provider backbone bridging-traffic engineering in the standards world) has faded a bit, as transport-multiprotocol label switching (T-MPLS, also called MPLS-transport profile for standards purposes) has picked up steam. Now, after companies such as Fujitsu, Ciena, Tellabs, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and others have been busy parsing out acronym advantages, Ericsson is finally set to join the packet-optical market with a new platform.
Posted by imlazar at November 24, 2008 09:48 AM