ECI Apollo

ECI Apollo: Defining the Next Generation of Optimized Multi-Layer Transport

ECI Apollo: Defining the Next Generation of Optimized Multi-Layer Transport White Paper September 2011

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CONTENTS

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Table of Contents

The Challenges ...................................................................................................................... 5

What Operators Need to Meet These Challenges ............................................................... 6

The Operator Response .................................................................................................. 7

The Solution Operators Really Need .................................................................................... 8

Offerings To Date ............................................................................................................. 8

Optimized Multi-Layer Transport ......................................................................................... 9

ECIs Apollo OMLT ........................................................................................................... 9

The Apollo Platforms .......................................................................................................... 12

Passive Modules ............................................................................................................ 13

Apollo Network Applications .............................................................................................. 14

Apollo Architecture and Technologies ......................................................................... 15

Apollo Support for Services ................................................................................................ 17

Apollo Makes the Difference .............................................................................................. 19

Conclusion ........................................................................................................................... 20

About ECI Telecom .............................................................................................................. 20

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List of Figures

Figure 1: The architecture of the Apollo product range ................................................. 10

Figure 2: The ECI Apollo product range in the network ................................................. 11

Figure 3: The Apollo 9600 OMLT portfolio active platforms ........................................ 12

Figure 4: The Apollo solutions Artemis series of passive modules .............................. 13

Figure 5: Router offload and savings by switching at the lowest possible layer ............ 15

Figure 6: ECI Apollo multi-layer management with LightSoft ....................................... 16

List of Tables

Table 1: Apollo OMLT OPT9600 series* .......................................................................... 13

Table 2: Network applications with optimized Apollo platforms example configurations of OPT9624 cage ...................................................................................... 14

Table 3: Apollo support for services ................................................................................ 17

Table 4: Flexibility of ECIs Apollo OMLT ......................................................................... 19

THE CHALLENGES

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The Challenges

The rapid evolution of new packet services, the resulting changes in traffic mix, and declining revenue per bit have collectively issued operators a mandate: Overcome planning uncertainty; acquire greater cost-effective scalability; utilize bandwidth and network assets better; and manage network performance more effectively. Operations must be streamlined and total cost of ownership (TCO) minimized. Greater flexibility to create new and differentiated services more quickly and cost effectively is essential. And, with all this, equally effective support for packet-, circuit-, and wavelength-based services is required.

WHAT OPERATORS NEED TO MEET THESE CHALLENGES

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What Operators Need to Meet These Challenges

Achieving the new scalability, performance, manageability, and revenue objectives which the evolving market environment demands, and doing so cost effectively, require that operators adopt a more efficient approach to building and operating networks. A more flexible, efficient, manageable, and automated next-gen (NG) transport solution is needed, one that integrates packet and optical technology in an innovative way that provides support for legacy services while being optimized for delivering high-growth services.

This new solution must offer maximum bandwidth efficiency, provide the ability to dynamically allocate network resources when and where needed most, take advantage of increased automation, and offer greater awareness and control over the network. But the savvy operator knows that ongoing success requires more than simply the better leveraging of network assets and control of network costs. It also requires the capability to flexibly and rapidly create new services and to ensure a differentiated experience for customers, so that profitable new revenue streams can be built. It is necessary to fine-tune control of QoS down to the per-service or individual customer level, and to correlate management events and conditions across network layers.

Integration of network layers into one device has sparked very strong interest from operators worldwide. It provides potential synergies in packaging, power, ports, cabling, and network management, resulting in expected cost savings and network simplification. The declining revenue-per-bit yield from bandwidth-intensive packet services has made more efficient use of network bandwidth a critical objective for operators. This need for greater efficiency has led to a heightened interest in meshed restoration, since the cost of dedicating bandwidth resources solely to the function of protection has become increasingly prohibitive in this new market environment.

Cost pressures have also led to increased interest in maximizing the efficiency of aggregation networks. That, plus the advantages of service transparency, effective support of legacy SDH/SONET traffic, and the need for scalability to 100G and beyond, has led to the creation of a standards-based multiplexing hierarchy and to offering Layer 1 switching that allows efficient grooming of electrical domain services onto wavelengths.

The need for more deterministic Ethernet performance has created a demand for enhanced OAM. The need for operational synergies with the IP/MPLS core has led to the development of metro-friendly Layer 2 protocols that streamline MPLS to provide a more cost-effective Layer 2 alternative for the metro. The need for standardization has encouraged wide support of MEF-certified Ethernet services.

The rise of mobile computing and growing interest in Cloud services have brought about two main changes: bandwidth demand is increasingly dynamic, and the locations and timing of bandwidth use increasingly uncertain. It is therefore increasingly important to dynamically allocate network resources when and where needed, a function of multidegree wavelength-switching capabilities that offer greater flexibility and are non-blocking in nature. At the same time, the need for greater automation, more efficient restoration mechanisms, and a tighter coupling of the optical transport network with higher and more intelligent network layers has heightened operator interest in a control plane that spans layers, particularly when used in conjunction with reconfigurable networks offering dynamic wavelength-switching capabilities.

WHAT OPERATORS NEED TO MEET THESE CHALLENGES


The evolution of packet services from best effort to an expanded service portfolio with tiered services that include more differentiated and deterministic offerings, has led operators to take greater interest in a better OAM model, one equally applicable to all traffic types. Operators are increasingly focused on growing their portfolio of differentiated packet services and on being able to respond quickly to new service opportunities. Their aim is to ensure a good quality of experience for those services while potentially supporting some of them with marketable SLAs. Quick fault detection, correlation, and problem resolution are required. For a network offering a mix of packet and circuit services while leveraging underlying optical transport, a multi-layer network management solution is needed to help operators correlate service performance to what is going on across multiple network layers. Last but not least, the need to streamline operations has led to increasing interest in automated provisioning and to stronger linkages between provisioning and planning tools.

The Operator Response

As they examine changing market requirements and the impact of new services on their revenue opportunities and network operations objectives, an increasing number of service operators are coming to a conclusion: The time is right to integrate network elements (NEs) and associated network management spanning L0, L1, L2, and elements of Layer 3 intelligence, while leveraging the most cost-effective network layer that provides the required functionality.

The operators expect this to achieve both CAPEX and OPEX savings while meeting green initiatives. However, to date, many operators have moved cautiously toward this goal. Although it offers many potential benefits, it also involves potential pitfalls or lost opportunities if not done with the right design approach and architecture. So, although operator interest in greater integration of network layers has remained strong, lessons learned have often left them waiting for a solution that better meets their long-term needs.

THE SOLUTION OPERATORS REALLY NEED


The Solution Operators Really Need

Offerings To Date

While much of the technology in the first generations of packet-optical transport platforms was mature, its implementation led to relatively slow uptake. Vendors tried to repurpose existing platforms and leverage past development expenditures rather than innovate in developing the best mix of packaging, architecture, technologies, and operating paradigm. As a result, they developed suboptimal solutions that better met their needs than solve the operators problems.

(For a more in-depth discussion on why many early packet-optical transport solutions were sub-optimal, refer to Telecom Strategy Partners White Paper entitled Replacing the Packet-OTS: What Operators Need In Next-Gen Transport.)

The New Solution: Optimized Multi-Layer Transport (OMLT). What operators really need is NG transport infrastructure that fully marries the scalability, performance, cost, and OAM model of optical networks with the adaptability, cost efficiencies, and flexible service-creation opportunities of packet networks. Operators need a portfolio of products which build a more intelligent, efficient, and flexible network that integrates packet and optical technology, scales cost effectively, makes maximum use of network resources, minimizes TCO, and enables the creation of new revenue opportunities while protecting existing revenue streams. In other words, they need an intelligent, fully integrated multi-layer transport solution that simplifies operations and optimizes performance and cost for a diverse and changing mix of packet-, circuit-, and wavelength-based services.

The architecture must accommodate different network starting points and different future objectives. It needs to reduce the necessity for planning certainty, minimize up-front CAPEX, eliminate the potential stranding of assets, and future proof the network investment. Consistent carrier class OAM applied to all traffic types in the network must be offered, and operators must have the ability to transport circuit, packet, and wavelength traffic equally well while supporting tiered service levels and marketable SLAs. The result must be an intelligent multi-layer transport network that can respond to traffic load and network impairments, dynamically allocate bandwidth and reroute traffic when and where required, so directing traffic to the most cost-effective network layer that best meets the functional requirements and cost objectives of each part of the network.

The repurposed packet-optical transport platforms of the past have not been the solution. What operators need is a new breed of infrastructure, an optimized multi-layer transport (OMLT) platform.

OPTIMIZED MULTI-LAYER TRANSPORT


Optimized Multi-Layer Transport

The intelligent NG OMLT solution must be based on mature and proven L0, L1, L2 technologies and management with L3 intelligence, and incorporate an innovative design philosophy and modular architecture that enable strategic flexibility and fine-tuned control of the network. It should integrate packet and optical networks in a way that maximizes the full cost-containment and revenue-creation synergies possible, while providing the greatest flexibility, performance, control, and manageability possible. Operators need a low first-in cost, a pay-as-you-grow approach, future proofing, streamlined operations, minimized TCO, and the ability to quickly allocate network resources when and where needed, as well as the flexibility to maximize new revenue opportunities.

ECIs Apollo OMLT

ECI has taken a market-leading position in defining and rolling out the unique combination of architecture, technology, and packaging needed to make OMLT a reality. The Apollo is a groundbreaking, purpose-built, NG modular transport portfolio integrating L0, L1, and L2 plus L3 intelligence, providing a strong OAM model equally applicable to circuit and packet traffic, and offering an integrated multi-layer management view. A range of active cost-optimized platforms are part of end-to-end solutions that span metro access, edge, and core/regional/long haul requirements.

The product of ECIs extensive transport experience together with operator input and market-leading optical technology and innovation, the Apollo OMLT combines ECIs well-recognized strengths in transport with best-in-class packet networking technologies and integrated multi-layer management. The modular design and practical focus of Apollos innovative architecture give operators the opportunity to build the best solution for their needs today, while ensuring they keep the door open for the right solution in the future. And it incurs no penalty or stranding of assets for the operator, regardless of the pace or path with which they choose to address the migration from circuit to packet traffic. For those operators with the eventual goal of convergence of all packet and circuit traffic onto a single packet network, Apollo provides an ideal, practical, and cost-effective migration path toward that objective, and an optimal solution when the operator gets there.

Based on modular building blocks and a series of cost-optimized platforms, Apollo gives operators the option to start implementing either a complete, optimized, multi-layer transport solution, or only selected sections of that solution on a standalone basis as needed (for instance, the operator can start out only with optical transport or Carrier Ethernet switch router capabilities and add more functionalities as needed). This can be done without fear of stranding assets, or having initial-deployment decisions limit future options, or committing to a solution that is less optimized for one type of traffic in favor of another providing operators with significant future proofing. Apollos modular design and innovative architecture offer an effective solution regardless of a networks starting point or the operators future objectives. The Apollo range of platforms offers choices in scalability, functionality, and cost objectives for each part of the network.



Designed from the ground up as a purpose-built OMLT solution, the Apollo portfolio provides operators with all the advantages and synergies of a tightly integrated, intelligent system. Depending on their needs, operators can scale to 44 or 88 wavelengths, deploy a centralized switch fabric or not, and deploy IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP where needed as part of an end-to-end solution. Figure 1 shows the basic architecture upon which the Apollo product range is built.

Figure 1: The architecture of the Apollo product range

Gaining true operational efficiency requires an end-to-end solution with cost-optimized platforms for each part of the network, a common management system, and common interfaces to operational support systems (OSSs) that give operators flexibility while streamlining the number of different platforms that must be managed.



Figure 2 shows the ECI Apollo product range deployed in the network from metro access, core, and core/regional roles.

Figure 2: The ECI Apollo product range in the network

THE APOLLO PLATFORMS


The Apollo Platforms

The Apollo 9600 series of OMLT platforms comprises a complete range of products providing cost-optimized functionality for networks ranging from metro access to metro edge, metro core, and regional/long haul. The Apollo platforms are complemented by ECIs series of Artemis modules, which provide passive optics. The active platforms in the Apollo solution are shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: The Apollo 9600 OMLT portfolio active platforms

The Apollo SR9601 and OPT9603 are compact platforms for metro access needs. The Apollo SR9604 and OPT9608 are for use at the metro edge, and feature 4 and 8 I/O slots, respectively, in a stackable chassis that can be deployed simply as WDM or can include 100 Gbps full duplex of Ethernet/MPLS packet-switching capabilities. The Apollo OPT9624 and OPT9648 are for metro core and regional/long haul applications and offer 24 and 48 I/O slots in a stackable chassis, include a terabit universal switch for ODU cross connect and packet-switching functionality, and provide options for deployment of standalone DWDM or for DWDM and the addition of OTN and packet functionality. Table 1 summarizes the capabilities of the Apollo OPT9600 series platforms.

THE APOLLO PLATFORMS


Table 1: Apollo OMLT OPT9600 series*

Platform Summary description

SR9601 Access Pizza box form factor 10G Ethernet/MPLS switching capacity full duplex

OPT9603 Access 3 I/O slots

SR9604 Metro edge 4 I/O slots 50G Ethernet/MPLS switching capacity full duplex

OPT9608

Metro edge 8 I/O slots 100G Ethernet/MPLS switching capacity full duplex

OPT9624

Metro core/regional 24 I/O slots Universal OTN/packet switching fabric Terabit switching capacity

OPT9648

Regional/long haul 48 I/O slots Universal OTN/packet switching fabric Terabit switching capability

*Includes support for OTN and ODU-level OTN switching, offers 2-degree ROADM and multidegree directionless, colorless, and contentionless ROADM, and a unique MPLS-TP to IP/MPLS gateway. In addition, it offers strong support for L2 Carrier Ethernet and L3 MPLS services, as well as SDH circuits, storage networking protocols, and wavelength services.

Passive Modules

The Apollo OPT9600 series platforms are complemented by the Artemis series of passive modules, shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: The Apollo solutions Artemis series of passive modules

Artemis provides a complete range of cost-optimized 1U, 2U, and 4U sized cages for passive modules offering dispersion compensated fiber, Mux/DeMux functionality, fixed OADM (FOADM) capabilities, and splitters/couplers. The 1U, 2U, and 4U cages house 2, 4, and 8 passive cards, respectively. Note that the passive cards can also be installed directly in the Apollo cage.

APOLLO NETWORK APPLICATIONS


Apollo Network Applications

The flexible Apollo can be custom tailored as a platform optimized for a number of applications. Table 2 highlights some of the network applications for which the Apollo OPT9624 and OPT9648 platforms can cost effectively be optimized, thanks to their modular design ranging from pure WDM deployment to metro packet OTS, metro/core/regional packet OTS, or CESR platform.

Table 2: Network applications with optimized Apollo platforms example configurations of OPT9624 cage

Pure WDM application 24 universal slots

Photonic modules L1 service cards

CESR application 4 slots for 1 Tbps universal fabric

cards 20 universal slots

L2 / L3 data cards

Metro Core/Regional/LH OMLT 4 slots for 1 Tbps universal fabric cards 20 universal slots

Photonic modules L1 service cards L2 / L3 data cards

Metro OMLT Application 2 slots for 100G fabric cards 22 universal slots

Photonic modules L1 service cards L2/L3 data cards

Apollo provides an end-to-end packet-optical solution that is remotely reconfigurable from access to core. Apollo also enables operators to engage in a router and ODU-XC offload approach, saving routing functionality for the traffic that really needs it and following a multi-layer version of the route where you must, switch where you can philosophy which provides strong cost optimization.

Because of the modular design, operators have the flexibility to minimize initial CAPEX and upgrade capabilities only when needed. For instance, Apollo can first be deployed as an optical solution providing wavelength services to a building, then upgraded with Carrier Ethernet capabilities to provide GbE services to a nearby cell tower. Or an initial deployment of Carrier Ethernet in support of PON can be upgraded with additional optical wavelengths in order to transition from broadcast video to more personalized video on demand services. And, as operators with an LTE network have an increasing mix of peer-to-peer traffic in the metro, they might choose to add packet technologies to an initial optical deployment to support the greater meshed traffic patterns they must serve.



Figure 5 illustrates the options and cost benefits that Apollo offers in terms of router offload. This will become an increasingly valuable tool for operators as a higher percentage of links in the network migrate to 40G and 100G capacity.

Figure 5: Router offload and savings by switching at the lowest possible layer

Apollo Architecture and Technologies

In the Apollo portfolio, ECI has selected the right mix of technologies that carriers need to build the OMLT network that maximizes revenues and minimizes costs in the future. ECI offers MPLS-TP as a cost-optimized complement to the IP/MPLS core. The ECI Apollo OMLT can leverage MPLS-TP for applications such as mobile backhaul, where limited path diversity requirements make it a more cost-effective approach than MPLS, given there is no need to reference large routing tables. Further, it provides an efficient gateway to interconnect the MPLS-TP and IP/MPLS domains. ECI implements OTN switching at the ODU level, offers directionless, colorless, and contentionless ROADM technology, and utilizes a GMPLS control plane.

From the perspective of architecture, ECI has implemented a universal fabric that, in addition to packet switching, provides OTN switching at the ODU level. The chassis of Apollo 9600 series platforms features universal I/O slots and the modular design enables selective deployment of technologies as and when needed. And an end-to-end integrated multi-layer management view provides correlation between services, customer experience, and network performance.

Universal fabric ensures there is no stranding of assets over time as the traffic mix changes, and support for OTN as well as packet traffic ensures strong multiservice support of both new packet and legacy circuit-based services.

Universal I/O slots ensure full utilization of each chassis and backplane and also eliminate the potential stranding of any I/O card assets. Photonic modules and service cards can be installed in any of the universal slots. In standalone optical configuration, the fabric slots are used as any other universal slot in the system, so utilizing all the slots.

Modular design ensures operators have a low first in cost, not paying for functionality not needed, and operating a pay as you grow model by scaling I/O and adding new technologies, such as WDM or CESR, only when needed.



Leading density of 100 XFPs per cage or 300 per rack gives operators highly efficient footprint and power requirements.

Integrated multi-layer management by the ECI LightSoft management system gives operators full FCAPS support for all ECI transport equipment and technologies, shortening the learning curve. It provides advanced automatic path finding, and takes a multi-layer topology approach by offering multiple task-specific views of the network. By offering unified OAM, alarm correlation, and root cause analysis spanning the data and optical layers, and correlating that with the network topology, it provides a complete view of the network that simplifies management tasks and reduces the length of out-of-service periods.

The LightSoft network manager and ECIs multi-layer management are shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6: ECI Apollo multi-layer management with LightSoft

APOLLO SUPPORT FOR SERVICES


Apollo Support for Services

Apollo supports Layer 2 services and MPLS and Layer 3 services, as shown in Table 3.

Table 3: Apollo support for services

L2 Carrier Ethernet features and services

MPLS and L3 features and services

MEF-certified E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree services

Hierarchical VPLS including auto-discovery

802.3ad link aggregation Point-to-point PWE3 802.1ad provider bridging and VLAN stacking

RSVP-TE signaling

L2/3 Hierarchical QoS LDP signaling L2/L3 classification and filtering MPLS fast re-route (FRR) IEEE 802.1ag, Y.1731/1711, 802.3ah hardware-assisted OAM

Primary/secondary standby LSPs

IEEE 802.1d STP, 802.1w RSTP, 802.1s MSTP, per VLAN STP

MPLS-TP and IP/MPLS signaling gateway

BFD and Y.1731 OAM

The technologies ECI has chosen to incorporate in Apollo are geared to the OMLT solution of the future, and include:

MPLS-TP enables operators to leverage operational synergies with the IP/MPLS core while offering a Layer 2 technology that complements full MPLS with a lower cost and streamlined profile of MPLS functionality appropriate for the metro and access networks. MPLS-TP enables consolidation of metro access and aggregation networks onto a common Carrier Ethernet/MPLS infrastructure that effectively supports converged fixed and mobile services, and provides deterministic performance for applications such as mobile backhaul. MPLS-TP also provides flexible QoS and strong OAM, resilience, and protection-switching capabilities. The use of MPLS-TP rather than a full Layer 3 implementation can also enhance security by eliminating the need for NEs to have IP addresses that expose them to potential attacks on the network.

OTN provides FEC, transparency, a standards-based multiplexing hierarchy, and effective support for legacy circuit traffic, storage protocols, and wavelengths. OTN Switching at the ODU level enables aggregation down to the GbE, enabling efficient electrical grooming of services onto optical wavelengths in the metro core and regional network to ensure maximum bandwidth efficiency and network utilization. The OTN switch provides the NG Layer 1 replacement to the legacy SDH/SONET cross connect.

APOLLO SUPPORT FOR SERVICES


Choices in ROADM give operators the chance to implement a cost-effective 2-degree ROADM for add/drop on rings, or a more capable multidegree colorless, directionless, and contentionless ROADM that enables dynamic switching of wavelengths onto network paths, allows for color conversion of wavelengths as needed, and offers a full non-blocking architecture.

GMPLS Control Plane automates discovery of NEs, cards, neighbors, and network topology, optical equalization, connection management, and routing (through route computation), and provides multiple protection and restoration options to increase survivability and create differentiated service offerings. With a single GMPLS control plane spanning both the packet and optical layers, operators gain benefits such as operational cost savings and faster service activation times.

APOLLO MAKES THE DIFFERENCE


Apollo Makes the Difference

Apollo provides operators with an innovative mix of packaging, multi-layer management, and modular architecture designed to create the greatest flexibility, opportunity for service differentiation, and operational efficiency possible. The mature and proven optical and packet networking technologies upon which Apollo is based aim to maximize service revenues and minimize costs. The Apollo portfolio enables operators to build an end-to-end OMLT network while reducing the number of different NE types in the network, simplifying operations, reducing footprint and power requirements, and providing a single interface to OSSs. And ECIs LightSoft manages ECIs entire transport portfolio, including microwave, DWDM, MSPPs, and CESR platforms, providing significant potential for operational synergies throughout the network.

Apollo fully integrates L0, L1, L2, and elements of Layer 3, reducing packaging costs and the port consumption and cabling requirements associated with discrete NEs. Apollos modular architecture gives operators the flexibility to selectively deploy only the network functionality they require, minimizing unnecessary up front capital expenditures while enabling pay-as-you-grow scalability. Apollos universal I/O slot architecture ensures that the chassis and backplane are fully utilized. And Apollo provides full integration, not only of hardware, but also of management, offering correlated multi-layer and task-sensitive views spanning the entire network end-to-end.

In terms of ECI-wide portfolio synergies, the Apollo 9600 OMLT portfolio and the entire ECI transport product range (including WDM, MSPPs, microwave, and CESR platforms) run on the LightSoft NMS. There is full interoperability between the Apollo 9600 and data cards used in the installed base of ECIs XDM portfolio.

In addition, Apollo shares the same operations paradigm and data functionality as ECIs 9700 and 9600 CESR product lines, creating synergies for operators with an installed base of CESR products today, and opportunities for synergy for those that might be able to leverage these products in their network in the future.

Compared to other platforms addressing operators future multi-layer transport needs, ECIs Apollo provides greater flexibility and better enables operators to optimize multi-layer transport. Table 4 compares the ECI Apollo OMLTs capabilities to those of competing categories of platforms.

Table 4: Flexibility of ECIs Apollo OMLT

PTN WDM/P-OTS CESR ECI Apollo

Layer 3 Yes No Yes Yes IP/MPLS Yes No Yes Yes MPLS-TP No Yes No Yes Layer 2 Yes Limited Yes Yes Tbit-class ODU XC No Yes No Yes ROADMS, Amps No Yes No Yes

CONCLUSION


Conclusion

Operators face unprecedented challenges. Meeting these challenges in a way that enables them to survive and thrive in the new market environment requires a new approach to NG transport: an optimized multi-layer transport network that provides a modular flexible approach to building networks that fully integrate packet and optical networking technologies.

ECIs Apollo OMLT is an innovative purpose-built platform based on operator input, ECIs significant experience in optical networking, and best-in-class packet networking technologies. Offering the right packaging and integration of the best choice and mix of technologies, ECIs Apollo provides a unique end-to-end solution that minimizes TCO and maximizes new revenue opportunities.

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ECI Apollo: Defining the Next Generation of Optimized Multilayer TransportTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesThe Challenges What Operators Need to Meet These Challenges The Operator Response

The Solution Operators Really Need Offerings To Date

Optimized Multi-Layer TransportECIs Apollo OMLT

The Apollo Platforms Passive Modules

Apollo Network ApplicationsApollo Architecture and Technologies

Apollo Support for ServicesApollo Makes the DifferenceConclusionAbout ECI Telecom

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