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Packet-Optical Transport System Overview

Access-to-Metro-to-Core Robust, flexible ASON & WSON

optimized transport solutions network restoration

Best performing 100Gbps coherent Simple point-and-click

for both Long Haul and Metro end-to-end service creation and
management
Carrier Ethernet with MPLS-TP
connection-oriented performance Automation through SDN network
programming capabilities

Outstanding Value Proposition

The Apollo Packet-Optical Transport System (P-OTS) delivers transport solutions that enable
telecommunications service providers, who face exponentially growing data traffic and a
demanding competitive environment, to increase their service responsiveness while lowering
initial and ongoing costs.
Apollo's differentiation is based on three outstanding features, which combine to provide
irresistible value; powerful optical transport, integrated packet functionality, and operational
efficiency.

Apollo Access through Core Packet-Optical Transport

 Powerful Optical Transport

Modular Access-Metro-Core Platforms

Apollo leverages a common set of blades that can be used Apollo OPT9603 Platform
interchangeably across a family of small, medium, and
large platforms to drive economies-of-scale and ease-of-
planning to create transport solutions that are optimized
from the Access through the Metro to the Regional
Core. These blades feature advanced capabilities and
a packaging density to ensure that the networks they
Edge-to-Edge Optical Encryption
power are at the cutting edge of competiveness.
To protect against the interception of enterprise data by
passively tapping into an optical fiber, Apollo provides
Optimized Regional and Metro 100G Layer 1 optical encryption that can be applied to Ethernet,
Coherent Fibre Channel, and TDM client services. Data is secured
Apollo's best-in-class long-haul 100 Gbps high-capacity from the point at which it enters the network until it
coherent links lead the industry for distance without leaves, using a 256-bit key, which is the highest level of
regeneration, which they achieve through superior the Advanced Encryption Standard.
Soft Decision FEC algorithms, as well as hybrid EDFA/
Apollo Layer 1 Optical Encryption
Raman and single stage variable amplifiers, optimized
for maximum reach.
Apollo also offers a unique metro 100G blade optimized
for the aggressive cost-performance expectations of
the metro segment. This cutting-edge blade is based
on a 100G CFP coherent pluggable that directly embeds
OSNR measurements.

Optimized Regional and Metro 100G Coherent

Spectrum Efficiency and Routing

Flexibility
Apollo is fully committed to the efficient use of optical
spectrum. A universal switching fabric provides an ODU
cross-connect—which, in the future, will also support
Dense, Economical Metro Platform packet switching—to optimize grooming of multiple
services onto DWDM optical wavelengths.
To accommodate the metro 100G blade — or any Apollo
blade — Apollo offers the OPT9603 as a small, flexible For maximum flexibility in creating end-to-end light
platform, designed especially for economical Metro and paths, Apollo provides full colorless, directionless,
Edge applications. The ultra-dense TR10_12 blade is and contentionless ROADMs, with different port count
ideally suited for this platform. It features an industry- models optimized for Metro and Regional networks.
leading six SFP+ 10G tunable transponders, enabling Moreover, Apollo ROADMs support flexible, or
Apollo to deliver eighteen 10G transponders in a 2U box. gridless, spectrum allocation, which is essential for
future-proofing networks to transport emerging
Apollo's metro solutions are also supported by the
higher-capacity 400G and 1T signals.
Artemis passive optics platform, which requires no
electrical power and can be deployed in extreme outside
plant environments.
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 Apollo Gridless Wavelength Routing Apollo integrates L1 optical transport services and L2
Carrier Ethernet services in a single platform under
common network management. This simplifies network
builds and operation, and reduces the Total Cost Of
Ownership.
Apollo offers a dense single-slot L2 muxponder blade
that supports combinations of 1GbE and 10GbE/OTU2
ports, with the following powerful packet capabilities:
MEF-defined E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, and E-Access
Carrier Ethernet services
Statistical multiplexing for grooming and efficient
transport of multiple 1GbE and 10GbE ports onto a
Intelligent Dynamic Service Restoration single 10GbE port

Making further use of the flexibility of the switching fabric Integrated MPLS-TP switching and connection-
and optical ROADMs, Apollo leverages an intelligent oriented transport
control plane and inter-node GMPLS signaling to provide Inter-card connectivity for automatic protection
both ASON service-level and WSON wavelength-level switching and fan out
dynamic restoration. These supplement automatic Apollo also provides additional value by integrating these
protection switching and are particularly useful for packet capabilities with OTN:
guaranteeing service level agreements in complex mesh Built-in colored OTN interfaces, eliminating the need
networks. for separate transponders for packet traffic
Apollo's powerful optical transport capabilities A common view of L1/L2 parameters and controls
ensure end-to-end transport services that go furthest to the LightSoft NMS for simple and efficient network
and fastest, with the greatest flexibility and highest management of combined transport and packet
availability, on an optimized, cost-effective network. services
Extended reach with G/EFEC for amplified and
non-amplified networks
Integrated Packet Functionality
Use of OTN performance monitoring as a trigger for
MPLS-TP restoration
Integrated Carrier Ethernet
Carrier Ethernet, which extends enterprise LANs into MPLS-TP Transport Advantages
the Wide Area Network, has typically been supported by
A particular advantage of Apollo is its selection of
specialized equipment designed to process Layer 2 (L2)
MPLS-TP, which is widely regarded as the optimal
packet protocols, which, in turn, interfaced to separate
protocol to implement Carrier Ethernet based on its
Layer 1 (L1) equipment for network-wide transport. With
multiple value-added features, such as:
the ongoing growth of data services, this dual equipment
Scalability to handle thousands of packet traffic
approach is no longer sustainable.
instances

Apollo Packet-Optical Integration Guaranteed SLAs using deterministic bi-directional

connection-oriented paths
High reliability with 50ms fast re-route automatic
protection switching
Transport grade OAM for performance monitoring
and fault management

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 Operational Efficiency

SmartLight Application Aware Transport

SmartLight is ECI's 360° software support ecosystem LightSoft Main Window
for provisioning and managing multi-layer,
multi-technology transport networks to be
application-aware and operationally efficient.
SmartLight works closely with Apollo and other
ECI networking products, and can even encompass
third-party products to ensure complete and
unified transport solutions.

SmartLight Application Aware Transport

LightPlan Network Design

LightPlan is a powerful iterative planning and design
tool that ensures you get just the network you need.
It encompasses all layers of transport networks, from
Long Haul through Regional and Metro, down to the
Access, and from the transmission to the physical layer,
L.ightSoft Network Management including the site layer, for all technology layers (OTN,
LightSoft provides intuitive point-and-click end-to-end data, SDH/SONET and optics).
service creation and network management of Apollo LightPlan includes a value-added ’plug and play‘
services and platforms. With a rich set of northbound capability of downloading configuration files to LightSoft,
interfaces to OSS and southbound interfaces to guaranteeing rapid and error-free turn up of Apollo sites.
third-party equipment, LightSoft ensures there is no gap
LightPlan Network Design Cycle
in capability or coverage.
LightSoft provides complete network management
from a single platform, including configuration,
service provisioning, fault management, performance
monitoring, and security control. As a single integrated
management system, it enables full control of all NEs
regardless of their manufacturer, while providing a view
of the entire network at a glance. Multiple operators can
simultaneously configure the network without conflicts.
A particularly powerful LightSoft feature is
real-time processing of Apollo's Optical Network Control
Parameters (ONCP) for detailed performance monitoring
of each Apollo light path, as well as rapid fault
sectionalization, if required.

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LightApp SDN Services Automation
LightApp provides services automation using LightApp Services Scheduling
network virtualization and Software Defined Network
programming capabilities. It extends control to end
users for bandwidth-on-demand, service scheduling,
and automated congestion relief.
With Bandwidth-on-Demand, LightApp allocates network
resources dynamically, as needed. This allows both
customers and external applications to use services only
when they are really required, and to vary the allocation
of resources to applications, according to actual needs.
This saves network resources and dramatically improves
network utilization.
LightApp leverages LightSoft’s ’Path Finder‘ capabilities
to create paths for both point-to-point and mesh
topologies, and to eliminate them when no longer
needed. The paths created are automatically provisioned
across all relevant layers (packet, OTN, WDM) to achieve
the optimal configuration.
With the Services Scheduling feature, LightApp provides
a calendar-like solution to reserve resources in advance,
allowing explicit scheduling of a network service (start
time, end time, specific endpoints, required bandwidth)
for a specific amount of time. This responds to the
requirement that services are required only at certain
times and for predictable durations. For example, with Summary
cyclic pattern network loads during the daylight hours, The Apollo family combines powerful Access-through-
most of the traffic is generated by trade and industry Core optical transport with integrated Carrier Ethernet,
users, while there is far less traffic from residential placing them under the umbrella of SmartLight application
areas. In the evening, in contrast, most of the traffic is awareness and operational efficiency. Apollo provides the
residential, while the industrial traffic declines. LightApp ultimate solution set to satisfy your customers' transport
Services Scheduling can adjust resources to deal with service needs, now and in the future, while enabling tight
such cyclic loads. control of initial and ongoing costs.
With the Congestion Relief feature, Light App avoids
Acronym Definition
network traffic congestion and bottlenecks that cause
ASON Automatic switched optical network
service interruption. The Congestion Relief algorithm
DWDM Dense wavelength division multiplexing
tracks performance monitoring (PM) notifications and
FEC Forward error correction
traffic overload alarms. Then, according to predefined GMPLS Generalized multi-protocol label switching
thresholds, it anticipates or detects any overload MEF Metro Ethernet Form
that might adversely affect the Quality of Service and MPLS-TP Multi-protocol label switching – transport
automatically reallocates network resources for the profile
current network load by rerouting tunnels and services NMS Network management system
to the best available path. ODU Optical data unit
Optical Optical signal to noise ratio
data unit
LightPath Network Restoration
OTN Optical Transport Network (standard)
LightPath combines policy-driven service priorities with P-OTS Packet optical transport system
peer-to-peer signaling among Apollo nodes, to execute ROADM Reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer
dynamic restoration at both the service and light path
levels. It provides a top-down network management
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 Technical Specifications
Topologies Mesh, hub, ring, linear, point-to-point
Platforms OPT9603 (3 blades)
OPT9608 (8 blades)
OPT9624 (24 blades)
OPT9914 (14 blades)
OPT9932 (32 blades)
Spectrum C-band
Fixed spectrum – up to 88 channels at 50 GHz, 44 channels at 100 GHz
Flexible spectrum allocation (gridless)
Fiber type G.652/3/4/5 leaf and TW
Capacity Link: 8.8 Tbps (88 ch x 100 Gbps)
Service interfaces Ethernet (1GbE, 10GbE, 40GbE, 100GbE)
SDH/SONET (STM-1,4,16,64 / OC-3,12,48,192)
SAN (FC-1,2,4,8,16)
Video (DVB-ASI, SDI 270, HD-SDI 1.5G/3G)

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OTU (1, 2, 2e, 4)
Layer 2 processing MPLS-TP connection-oriented transport
Statistical multiplexing transport aggregation
MEF Virtual LAN services
Switching Universal OTN/Packet fabric to 12.8 Tbps
Encryption AES256-GCM with Diffie-Hellman group 5 key exchange
Network (DWDM) OTU1 (2.5 Gbps)
interfaces OTU2/2e (10 Gbps)
OTU3e (40 Gbps)
OTU4 (100Gbps)
Optical Add/Drop 2-, 4-, and 9-degree ROADMs with automatic power equalization and colorless, directionless,
Multiplexers and contentionless (CDC) capabilities
Fixed OADM
100% add/drop capacity
Amplification EDFA, Raman, Hybrid EDFA/Raman, with embedded optical leveling control
Output power from 16 dBm to 23 dBm
Gain up to 40 dB with 10 dB midstage
Protection OCH 1+1, OLP, OMSP, Y Protection, 1+n optical, DRI/DNI
Restoration WSON – wavelength level
ASON – service level
1+1, 1+1 forever, preplanned/dynamic protection
HW redundancy All common units/cards: power supply, controllers, fan units
Power input -40.5 VDC to -75 VDC; OPT9603 also AC mains
Environmental Operating temperature: -5˚C to +55˚C
Relative humidity: 5% to 90% (non-condensing)
SmartLight Application LightApp: Virtualization & SDN APIs for network programmability
Aware Support Suite LightSoft: E2E point & click network management for lowest Opex
LightPlan: Optimal network design for lowest Capex
LightPath: ASON/WSON restoration control for highest availability
Specifications subject to change without notice

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