…Integrated Timing System bits/sym Bits per Symbol BLSR Bidirectional Line Switched Ring BML Business Management Layer BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman BOC Bell Operating Company BOL Beginning of Life BOM Bill of Materials BONDING Bandwidth ON Demand Interoperability Group BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol BP Backplane…

…switching solutions to mix private line and virtual private line services over the same infrastructure starting with the customer demarcation (CN 2300 for multiservice access) back through the central office (CN 4300 for service aggregation). Services are converged on the same optical network but are kept…

…achieved on relatively short lines. AIS (Alarm Indication Signal) A signal, transmitted by a system within a communications link, which lets the receiver know that some part of the link has failed. Two types of AIS signals are Alarm Indication Signal Path (AIS-P) and Alarm Indication Signal Line (AIS-L…

…   - TL-1 line-by-line user interface     - Optional PC graphical user interface     - RS-232 DTE data terminal modem port     - Optional JAVA-based interface for use       on PCs and workstations Office…

…line side SFP, as opposed to four previously, and does not require an optical multiplexer(OMX). With the addition of only a line side SFP, the 4 x GE can be optionally protected from fiber cuts by sending the 4Gbps signal down two separate fibers. The ports on the Optical Metro 5040 and Optical Metro…

…deploy in locations that require massive service aggregation and wavelength routing, such as high-density metro offices, data centers and head-ends. Delivering the same unique combination of on-demand programmable service delivery, G.709 OTN-based service transparency and intelligent service-level management…

…are expected to carry live traffic by February. MultiWave Metro enables iaxis to cost-effectively build and scale intra-city distribution networks that it believes will make broadband IP services as easy to provide as traditional private line services. Metro?s virtual topology will allow iaxis to rapidly…

…network, the new data solutions, including data line cards with native Ethernet interfaces and packet-aware intelligence, are designed for the market-leading CoreDirector® switching system and enable service providers to efficiently aggregate metro data services and interconnect them to a converged…

…Services Multiplexer – that power COS. Both the Swisscom service and Ciena platforms have been certified to deliver Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) compliant Ethernet Private Lines based on the group’s MEF9 technical specifications for Ethernet Services at the User Network Interface (UNI). The Swiss…

…acquisition of the optical networking and Carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel’s+ Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business. The newly combined product and service portfolio offers best-of-breed solutions focused on converged optical Ethernet to accelerate the transition to next-generation infrastructures…