Ciena's CN 3600™ Intelligent Optical Multiservice Switch family is the first solution to fully integrate the functionality of a next generation SONET/SDH Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM), Digital Cross-Connect (DCS), and Ethernet services platform in one carrier-class system. The CN 3600 delivers OC-3 to OC-192 SONET, DS1, DS3/EC-1, equivalent SDH services as well as Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet services with scalable broadband and wideband switching fabrics for DSC applications.

The CN 3600’s modular, distributed switching architecture on each service card enables dramatic scalability advantages and cost savings over traditional solutions that require a full switching matrix for the initial service. Its ability to perform both low order and high order grooming provides savings up to 50% in equipment, 70% in power, and 80% in space utilization over multi-platform DCS and ADM aggregation solutions. When deployed as a distributed ADM+DCS in the metro, the CN 3600 pre-grooms local traffic, eliminating the need to backhaul local low order traffic to the central office. This optimizes metro ring bandwidth as well as offloads DCS ports at the main hub. Integrated test access along with bridge and roll capability enables simplified remote management and hitless service changes. The CN 3600 maintains industry leading support for both SONET and SDH from T1/E1 to OC-192/STM-64. Add leading edge Ethernet over SONET features and the CN 3600 becomes the ideal platform for efficiently aggregating IP services over existing SONET/SDH networks.

The Cisco ONS 15454 SONET and Cisco ONS 15454 SDH multiservice provisioning platforms are industry leaders with more than 1000 customers and 40,000 systems deployed worldwide. The Cisco ONS 15454 provides the functions of many traditional SONET and SDH network elements in a single platform, combining advanced SONET/SDH transport through OC-192/STM-64, integrated dense wavelength-division multiplexing optical networking, and multiservice interfaces.

The Cisco ONS 15454 SONET Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP) provides the functions of multiple network elements in a single platform. The Cisco ONS 15454 SONET provides TDM solutions with interfaces such as DS-1, DS-3, EC-1, and data solutions with 10/100/1000 Ethernet solutions with OC-3 to OC-192 optical transport bit rates including integrated DWDM wavelengths.