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Overture Networks, the industry’s trusted Carrier Ethernet solutions provider, has announced the release of the UTX8500 Pseudowire Gateway.

Overture Networks’ UTX8500 allows mobile backhaul service providers to ease the transition from TDM-based networks to Ethernet-based networks by transporting legacy DS1 services over Ethernet. With its ability to aggregate traffic from hundreds of cell sites, the UTX8500 enables carriers to reduce costs by 50% or more when compared to previous technology alternatives.

Typical cell sites can have a dozen or more T1’s backhauling 2G and 3G traffic to hub locations, such as mobile switching centers (MSC), where the bandwidth from hundreds of cell sites is aggregated. The significant capacity of Overture’s UTX8500 allows service providers to carry TDM traffic in an Ethernet

network and do so much more efficiently to provide tremendous cost savings. The UTX8500 also offers up to 3 OC-12 handoffs, enabling the backhaul provider to support the needs of multiple wireless carriers.

“Service providers are looking for products like the UTX8500 pseuodowire gateway that are carrier-class and have the capacity to handle both the current traffic needs and the coming stronger 4G demands in mobile backhaul networks,” said Michael Howard, co-founder and principal analyst at Infonetics Research. ”Overture Networks has a proven history in Carrier Ethernet including their MEF18-compliant product line, pragmatically designed to help operators improve their operational economics.”

The UTX8500 is a highly scalable DS1 over pseudowire gateway, delivering over 1000 protected DS1s to 500 end points. Designed for 99.999% reliability for carrier class applications, the platform provides redundant matrix, controllers, Gigabit Ethernet LAG and SONET 1+1. The platform offers Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 18 compliant DS1 over Ethernet services via either 1588v2 differential or adaptive mode timing. The integrated grand master clock eliminates the need for a separate 1588v2 timing server.

“As the industry marches toward the conversion to all optical IP-based networks and the need for data bandwidth continues to explode, there are many legacy services that must be supported for years to come,“ said David Stehlin, President of Overture Networks. “The UTX8500 is designed to address the needs of both mobile backhaul and business service providers by delivering high quality services with superior cost economics as Ethernet-based networks become the standard.”

The UTX8500 is paired with the Overture UTS4000 optical remote solution, which delivers converged Ethernet and T1/E1 pseudowire services over native Ethernet transport, with flexible configurations supporting client Fast Ethernet, GigE, private management ports and up to 24 T1/E1 lines. Architected to MEF standards, the UTS4000 product family can interoperate with any standards compliant transport or aggregator, easily integrating into any network, including Ethernet over SONET, Ethernet radio, direct on fiber, or OADM systems.

About Overture Networks


Overture Networks is the preferred Carrier Ethernet edge and aggregation partner to more than 180 service providers and enterprise customers worldwide, including 10 of the top 15 US Carrier Ethernet service providers. Its innovative solutions have proven to be integral to a service provider’s ability to fully leverage Carrier Ethernet to multiply service revenues and streamline operational costs.

Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, with a technology center in Richardson, TX, Overture Networks is relentlessly focused on providing solutions at the ever-expanding edge of the network. With its patent-protected, award-winning family of products for both business services and mobile backhaul, Overture Networks uniquely combines the packet-switched and circuit switched worlds into a single architecture—at cost points that make it extremely attractive to offer Carrier Ethernet services to any size location—over optical fiber or copper transport. For more information, visit www.overturenetworks.com : .



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