Chapter 1. Market Drivers for Multiservice Provisioning Platforms

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Market Drivers

• Increased Demand for Bandwidth by LANs

• Rapid Delivery of Next-Generation Data and High-Bandwidth Services

• TCO

• OAM&P

• Capital Expense Reduction

Multiservice Provisioning Platforms (MSPPs) are optical platforms into which you can insert or remove various ring and service cards. The interfaces on these cards deliver a variety of electrical and optical services, such as traditional time-division multiplexed (TDM) circuit-based and packet-based data services within the chassis. Because they are modular, MSPPs enable you to insert cards such as plug-ins or blades. This modularity accommodates the aggregation of traditional ...

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