Packet optical solutions provider BTI Systems is reportedly enhancing its 7000 Series portfolio with the launch of its Dual 4G Multiprotocol Transponder (4G DTPR).

 

The BTI 7000 Packet Optical Edge Series is designed to address the increasing demand for multiple services, greater transport capacity, dynamic networking, and management simplicity right to the network optical edge.

 

The newly announced 4G DTPR is said to offer protocol support for any combination of Ethernet (GbE), 1G Fibre Channel/FICON, 2G Fibre Channel/FICON, and 4G Fibre Channel transparently to address Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and other data center and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) applications.

 

“4G Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet are the primary protocols in today’s data centers and the 4G DTPR simplifies data center interconnect and extension solutions for regulatory compliance and business continuity and disaster recovery implementations” commented Jason Smith, solutions marketing and certifications program manager at BTI Systems.

 

“It is an extremely adaptive module with the ability to address a wide variety of SAN and MAN environments and scale with growing data center connectivity requirements,” said Smith.

 

BTI’s latest solution, the 4G DTPR, is an effective solution for service providers offering Storage Private Line (SPL) services or enterprises leveraging dark fiber allowing them to deploy their own data center interconnect solutions. The key advantage of this solution it’s that the transparent interconnect of client services ensure unaltered transmission of mission-critical data between data center facilities. Also, the module’s SAN protocol support enables simplified connectivity and protocol changes without network hardware alterations.

 

This two-transponder-in-one architecture is said to provide high density extension of two independent client protocols or resilient 1+1 facility protection of a single client service. 

The 4G DTPR joins the 10-port Multiprotocol Muxponder, 8-port Multiprotocol Muxponder, Dual 1G Multiprotocol Transponder, Dual 2.5G Multiprotocol Transponder, and Dual 10G Multiprotocol Transponder as a data center extension-capable client service modules supporting Ethernet and SAN protocols.

 

BTI claims that all of its products are engineered for very low power consumption to reduce carbon footprint in central offices and data centers. The BTI 7000 Packet Optical Edge, the BTI 700 Ethernet Access, and the NETSTENDER Series are some of its offerings. Key capabilities include packet switching, software-provisionable multiprotocol client service interfaces, CWDM/DWDM, optical multiplexing, amplification, and dispersion compensation.