BANGALORE, INDIA: Alcatel-Lucent, had introduced what it asserts to be the industry's first 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) service routing interface for the edge.

The company says the new service interface leverages "unique silicon innovations" to deliver large bandwidth, high speed and quality, and improved power efficiency. The interface will appear first on the 7750 Service Router and 7450 Ethernet Service Switch.
 
Expanding capacity at the edge enables service providers to simultaneously reduce the cost per bit of IP transport substantially, while also enhancing their network to deliver increasingly sophisticated high-value services, Alcatel-Lucent asserts.

Alcatel-Lucent says its FP2 silicon and enhancements in thermal efficiency reduce power consumption to levels approaching 4 W per gigabit with the new 100GbE interface modules, a "significant" improvement compared to the 10- and 40-Gbps alternatives deployed today.

For service providers needing greater than 10-Gigabit Ethernet density, but not yet ready to move to 100GbE speeds, Alcatel-Lucent simultaneously introduced new 10-port 10-Gigabit Ethernet line cards for the 7750 SR and 7450 ESS. Based on the same FP2 silicon, these line cards deliver up to three hundred 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports in a standard telecom rack, including support for a full range of IP/MPLS services.

The new line cards will be available for demonstrations in 4Q 2009 and commercially in mid-2010.