Optimize and Expand Optical Transport Across Network Applications
The Nokia 1830 PSS-x P-OTN switching portfolio provides a versatile solution for optimizing and expanding optical transport across various network applications. Whether facilitating data center interconnectivity or efficiently scaling large metro, regional, and long-haul multi-layer, multiservice optical networks, this portfolio meets diverse needs.
Specifically designed for metro switching requirements, the 1830 PSS-8x and 1830 PSS-12x platforms cater to growing bandwidth demands, supporting enhanced connectivity up to 10G, 100G, and 400GE. These platforms offer the agility and effectiveness required to keep pace with increasing customer expectations.
Utilizing a centralized G.709 P-OTN switching fabric, these scalable platforms empower network operators with exceptional scalability and adaptability. This efficient approach integrates packet OTN (P-OTN), Layer 1 P-OTN switching, and photonic layer switching, enabling highly efficient solutions for delivering a wide array of end-user services.
The Nokia 1830 PSS-x platforms are industry leaders in switching scale, port densities, and wavelength distances while minimizing power consumption per bit. From metro aggregation and metro core to large metro core and backbone networks, these high-performance platforms provide the flexibility, scalability, and efficiency operators need to deliver optimized, high-capacity services in today’s demanding network environments.
Benefits of Nokia’s P-OTN Switching Portfolio
Efficient Delivery of Wholesale Services
Nokia’s platforms effortlessly streamline the delivery of wholesale services. They ensure comprehensive coverage with scalable, centralized P-OTN switching boasting up to 48 Tb core capacity and distributed, card-based P-OTN grooming at the edge. Integrated packet transport ensures efficient, versatile, and reliable Layer 2 Ethernet transport. Nokia optimizes fiber utilization by leveraging Nokia PSE coherent wavelength modulation formats and shaping. Additionally, advanced multilayer networking algorithms guarantee the reliable transportation of services at the most cost-effective layer.
Maximization of Revenue Opportunities
The 1830 PSS-x platforms empower you to navigate unpredictable traffic dynamics with agility. They support seamless evolution through 100G and B100G connectivity services and effortlessly adapt to evolving demands. Additionally, they offer tiered protection and restoration resiliency levels, catering to value-based SLAs while also featuring low-latency, bandwidth-efficient encryption, ensuring the secure transmission of business-critical applications.
Meeting a Diverse Range of Transport Application Needs
Nokia platforms help optimize costs while delivering efficient optical transport for any application, fiber type, and reach. Their platforms facilitate unconstrained service grooming at the wavelength, port, and sub-port levels, ensuring flexibility. They also boast enhanced packet optical transport features, including CDC-F wavelength routing and Carrier Ethernet 2.0-certified services. Wavelength and sub-wavelength services are supported, along with highly secure encrypted wavelengths, meeting a wide spectrum of transport application requirements.
Benefits at a Glance
Significantly scales network capacity, distance, and density simultaneously, enabling the mass delivery of sub-10G, 10G, 100G, and 400G services.
Guarantees service level performance for speed, latency, availability, and security, ensuring the ability to meet strict SLAs demanded by end users.
Provides a smooth evolutionary path for the Nokia 1830 PSS product portfolio, enabling network operators to leverage existing investments and transition to higher service rates.
Isolates line cards from client cards, allowing for investment and operational decoupling.
Enhances fiber utilization through optimized WDM capacity-reach performance.
Improves service separation, network efficiency, and utilization, including transport network slicing with both hard and soft isolation.
Features of Nokia’s P-OTN Switching Portfolio
The Nokia 1830 PSS-x platforms feature the latest generation of Nokia Photonic Service Engine (PSE) coherent digital signal processing (DSP) and optics, ensuring top-tier performance. These platforms incorporate integrated dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) coherent line interfaces, enabling direct connections to WDM line systems. The platforms offer versatile connectivity options with flexible, rate-adaptive 100G to 500G coherent DWDM line interfaces and support for client services ranging from sub-10G to 400G. They also support single or multi-carrier operation, and the integrated Probabilistic Constellation Shaping (PCS) optimizes capacity and reach for any optical path. The next-generation soft decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) and pay-as-you-grow DWDM pluggable line options enhance efficiency and scalability.
For OTN switching and scalability, the 1830 PSS-x platforms provide efficient, reliable, high-density OTN switching and transport applications, with a scalable centralized OTN fabric ranging from 1.6 Tb to 48 Tb switching capacity. They support ODUk switching and protection from ODU0 to ODU4, including ODUflex, and can scale up to 4 Tb per shelf and 16 Tb per rack for the 1830 PSS-8x, up to 12 Tb per shelf and 24 Tb per rack for the 1830 PSS-12x, and up to 24 Tb per single shelf, 48 Tb per dual-shelf, and 48 Tb per rack for the 1830 PSS-24x.
The next-generation OTN capabilities support beyond 100G (B100G) applications with N x OTU4 and OTUCn line structures, high-speed, programmable cards for high-capacity applications, and WDM uplinks based on Nokia’s fifth-generation Photonic Service Engines (PSE-V), including 90Gbaud super coherent optics (PSE-Vs) and 400G pluggable digital coherent optics (PSE-Vc). Client interfaces support 400GE services, with 1 Tb/s transmission capacity per slot for uplink and client cards in the 1830 PSS-24x, and 500 Gb/s transmission capacity per slot for the 1830 PSS-8x/12x.
Reliability and efficiency are ensured with redundant control, power, and timing to support high-availability networks. The platforms offer efficient 2+1 electrical fabric protection, ultra-fast wavelength multi-layer protection and restoration, and power consumption of less than 0.4 W/Gb (including optics). They provide large-scale transport of sub-10G to 400G services with traffic segregation, bandwidth, loss, latency, availability guarantees, direct multiplexing of low-speed clients to coherent line interfaces, and simplified protection and spare inventory. Trail (DMt) and Path (DMp) latency measurements are also supported.
Integrated packet transport (IPT) features include MEF-certified Carrier Ethernet switch cards for the 1830 PSS-24x, state-of-the-art carrier-grade Layer 2 switches, and the Nokia Service Router Operating System (SR OS). This enables a fully managed, end-to-end packet solution with a common service, operations, and management model across optical and Ethernet/IP/MPLS portfolios, supporting Carrier Ethernet and Multiprotocol Label Switching – Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) services and
The platforms also offer network slicing to assure multiple SLAs across clouds, data centers, and network segments, with hard and soft isolation to maximize bandwidth efficiency while ensuring deterministic QoS. Scalable packet OTN (P-OTN) multiservice transport is also supported.
Multi-layer control plane capabilities include multi-layer, multi-region networking support, coordinated multi-layer protection and restoration, and IP/optical integration via Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) user–network interface (UNI). The management and software suite includes WaveSuite Network Operations Center, WaveSuite Resource Controller, WaveSuite Service Enablement, WaveSuite Health and Analytics, WaveSuite Planner, the 1830 Engineering and Planning Tool (EPT), Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP), and an open model-driven API.
For software-defined networking (SDN), centralized, multi-layer control is provided via Nokia NSP. Integrated network planning tools support optimized multi-layer network planning and deployment, ensuring comprehensive management and operational efficiency.
Product Descriptions of Nokia’s 1830 PSS-x Platforms
1830 PSS-8x and PSS-12x
The 1830 PSS-8x and 1830 PSS-12x are designed to optimize metro aggregation and metro core switching applications in optical transport networks (OTNs). These platforms offer an industry-leading level of switching in a compact footprint, addressing the scale and efficiency needs of multi-layer, multiservice optical networks. Leveraging in-house-designed silicon for electrical switching and DWDM interface port density, these platforms enable operators to meet growing bandwidth demands while minimizing space and power requirements.
The 1830 PSS-8x provides 4.0 Tb/s of non-blocking switching capacity in a single 10RU shelf, scaling to 16 Tb/s per 300 mm rack, making it a high-capacity metro aggregation point in a small form factor. The 1830 PSS-12x offers 12 Tb/s of non-blocking switching capacity in a 21RU shelf, scaling to 24 Tb/s per 300 mm rack, providing efficient, high-capacity, any-rate switching in the metro core while using less power per bit. Both platforms share common cards and support a wide range of client interface types from 100 Mb/s to 400GE, coherent programmable uplinks, and 500G-capable card slots. This ensures a smooth transition from legacy networks to modern service delivery platforms, facilitating seamless scaling toward B100G services.
1830 PSS-24x
The 1830 PSS-24x platform is optimized for core and large metro packet/optical transport network (OTN) switching applications. It offers industry-leading electrical switching scale at international/national, regional, and metro core network locations. This platform supports the evolution to 100G/400G services, enabling continued revenue growth as customer bandwidth demands increase and enterprises seek higher capacity connectivity between their routers and data centers.
The 1830 PSS-24x supports 24 Tb/s of non-blocking switching capacity in a single shelf, with upgradability to 48 Tb/s capacity through interconnected shelf pairs. It provides industry-leading OTN and packet switch scale, port densities, and wavelength distances while reducing power consumption per bit. This high level of switching scale is achieved through an intelligent electrical fabric design, coupled with terabit-capable card slots for transport wavelength cards powered by the Photonic Service Engine (PSE) and service cards with high client port density.
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