OPINION
DRIVING PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY WaveRouter is the industry’s first purpose-built router for the converged metro designed to support the growing demand for high-bandwidth services like 5G, high-speed broadband, enterprise business services, and cloud. It meets the rigorous demands of metro networks by bringing together the best of platform architecture, transport technologies, and software to eliminate trade-offs in space, power, cooling, and scalability.
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nlike other metro routing platforms, WaveRouter is optimally designed to scale and evolve via an extensible and flexible converged architecture, across multiple dimensions— routing, optical, and compute. WaveRouter features a unique, extensible router switch fabric for in-service hardware upgrades without performance degradation, making it possible for service providers to scale as they grow so they don’t have to make capacity deployment decisions upfront. It also utilizes industry-leading WaveLogic coherent optics which allow service providers to integrate the latest coherent advancements without having to perform forklift upgrades. With WaveRouter, service providers can manage IP and optical network services in a single interface, reducing operating costs and driving optimal network performance and growth.
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Legacy and current router platform architectures are not designed for the demands of metro networks—in many cases forcing operators to sacrifice in the areas of scalability, operational simplicity, and sustainability. They have trade-offs that can lead to mixed business results such as decreased return on investment (ROI), increased total cost of ownership (TCO) (capex, opex), or limited sustainability: l Chassis: Limited by backplane, heat and power, space, and multi-chassis extensibility l DDC: Low sustainability, energy efficiency, and operational efficiency
WaveRouter is a sustainable and flexible solution that does not compromise performance. Legacy telco offices generally have controlled environmental constraints. WaveRouter’s distributed housing and footprint-efficient design improve thermal flexibility, enabling it to overcome space and power constraints. It is also highly adaptable, allowing for deployment in non-adjacent racks/rows, and it uses front-toback air-cooling efficiency to overcome thermal limitations. The solution’s angled faceplates enable the use of low-cost, industry-standard Direct Attached Copper (DAC) cables instead of more expensive optical fabric cables. This not
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Leaf-spine: Operational complexity and inability to cost-effectively grow in some situations Whereas WaveRouter is an innovative platform architecture that doesn’t have a direct competitive solution. It features the best aspects of traditional chassis and leaf-spine for increased sustainability, higher ROI, and lower TCO: l Chassis: Housing with common fan and cooling; N+1 power l Leaf-spine: Distributed, disaggregated, and extensible fabric; server-based clustering for control plane l Transport: Continuously evolve to industryleading coherent optics to deliver the highest capacity at the lowest space, power, and cost Software for programmability and scale: Routing and operations, administration, maintenance (OAM); multi-layer network intelligence
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