Case Study: Orckit-Corrigent Dual stack IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP for Packet Transport Networks

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Orckit-Corrigent has been supplying networking infrastructure solutions for metro aggregation networks since 2000. In 2001 the company integrated DC-MPLS from Metaswitch which has kicked off a 10-year partnership resulting in a decade of innovation, growth and success.

Orckit-Corrigent has recently built upon their track record of introducing cutting edge technologies to the telecommunication marketplace by being the first telco vendor to implement dual stack IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP technologies on a single packet transport switch. The IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP control plane technologies used in that platform are portable protocol solutions supplied by Metaswitch.

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About Orckit-Corrigent Dual stack IP/MPLS & MPLS-TP PTN Metaswitch’s MPLS-TP solution shares a common code base with the DC-MPLS software which has been deployed by Metaswitch customers for over a decade. The use of a common code base not only reduces development resources, cost and risk but also provides an ideal environment for dual stack support and interoperability between the stacks.

“Our simultaneous support of IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP, and inherent interoperability between the two domains, offers telecommunication service providers with many short- and long-term benefits. These benefits are clear in the flexibility our customers have to select IP/MPLS or MPLS-TP according to a specific application, region or even LSP,” said Mr. Yossi Barsheshet, Vice President R&Dat Orckit-Corrigent. “The flexible architecture of Metaswitch’s IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP control plane solution gave us a great starting point in delivering these benefits to our customers.”

“IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP based signaling protocols eliminate the need to configure all the network elements along the route, and offer end-to-end service provisioning, protection and OAM. In addition, network management requirements such as Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) are also improved within an end-to-end IP/MPLS & MPLS-TP environment that operates as a unified tool to monitor and control the network,” said Mr. Barsheshet.

Metaswitch’s MPLS-TP solution offers a fully integrated control plane with options for manual or automated provisioning, pre-integrated OAM capabilities and protection/restoration features.

Orckit-Corrigent (Nasdaq: ORCT) facilitates the delivery of SDH migration, Carrier Ethernet enterprise VPN and residential triple play, and mobile backhauling applications for telecommunication providers worldwide. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Led by its CM-4000 line of products, Orckit-Corrigent’s Packet Transport Network (PTN) solutions include standard and interoperable IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP switches with a wide set of transport features, enabling advanced packet, as well as legacy TDM services, over unified packet transport networks.

Orckit-Corrigent added MPLS-TP functionality on the CM-4000 series to enable telecommunication service providers a simple and cost effective way to implement a unified PTN. A unified platform alleviates the need to introduce new hardware as customers migrate from one technology to the next

Orckit-Corrigent’s selection of MPLS-TP portable protocol software from Metaswitch was a straight forward decision as the company has become familiar with Metaswitch over the last ten years in its ability to consistently deliver innovative products which are developed to the highest quality standards and coupled with exceptional support. It is these core values which have in turn have helped Orckit-Corrigent bring solutions to market and lower development costs

“Metaswitch has always proven to deliver on their core values of support, quality and innovation“ said Mr. Yossi Barsheshet, Vice President R&D at Orckit-Corrigent. “When selecting Metaswitch for dual stack IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP, we were going with technology we could trust.”

The support and quality from Metaswitch also enabled

Orckit-Corrigent to improve time to market. The unified

IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP solution has been successfully deployed

at few telecommunication service providers worldwide.

Selecting Metaswitch

METASWITCH NETWORKSMetaswitch is a leading provider of the technologiesand solutions that are powering the migration ofcommunications networks to open, next generationarchitectures. Hundreds of network operators worldwidedepend on its reliable, scalable carrier systems solutions.

Metaswitch’s Network Technologies Division develops high performance, network software products that are licensed by all the world’s leading communications equipment manufacturers.

Service providers and equipment vendors recognize Metaswitch as having a unique culture which delivers quality engineering, reliability, exceptional support and innovation. This culture has helped grow revenue and maintain profitability every year since the company was founded in 1981, which assures Metaswitch customers of ongoing technology investment and supplier stability.

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“When selecting Metaswitch for dual stack IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP, we were going with technology we could trust.”

—said Mr. Yossi Barsheshet, Vice President Research & Development

CONCLUSIONAnchored by its flagship CM-4000 series of Packet Transport Network solutions, Orckit-Corrigent is a leading supplier SDH migration and Carrier Ethernet applications to telecommunication service providers. The company have partnered with Metaswitch for over 10 years based on its ability to consistently deliver innovative products while helping lower engineering costs through quality work and exceptional support. The partnership was recently expanded to include support for MPLS-TP technology which enabled Orckit-Corrigent to deliver the industry’s first unified IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP PTN platform.