UTStarcom Launches SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport Platform and Postpones the Release of First Half 2020 Financial Results...
August 31 2020 - 6:00AM
UTStarcom (“UTStarcom” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:UTSI), a global
telecommunications infrastructure provider, today introduced a
Converged Packet Transport Platform, SkyFlux. The SkyFlux
platform combines Segment Routing over MPLS (SR-MPLS) and MPLS-TP
tunneling, TDM-like Ethernet based on FlexE/G.mtn, highly accurate
time synchronization and SDN-based network intelligence into an
efficient future-proof packet transport network that is ready to
meet the complex set of requirements from 5G mobile networks and
other applications.
Dr. Zhaochen Huang, UTStarcom’s Acting Chief Executive Officer,
commented, "We are excited to launch our next-generation
communications platform, SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport.
As network infrastructure continues to transition to 5G, we believe
the product is well-positioned to meet the needs of key network
operators globally. Our new SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport
platform enables carriers to effectively manage the network
resources and meet complex requirements of 5G mobile systems as
well as of various other traditional and emerging applications by
ensuring high performance, flexibility and efficiency."
UTStarcom’s Senior Vice President of Product & Technology,
Mr. Steven Chen, said, "The new SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport
platform integrates benefits of advanced communication technologies
such as Segment Routing and FlexE/G.mtn with intelligence of
UTStarcom’s SDN platform SOO Station for extended network and
service agility and operational efficiency. On top of high
switching capacity and performance, the platform offers such
advanced features as hard and soft network slicing, extra-low
forwarding latency with FlexE/G.mtn Cross-Connect feature, and very
high time synchronization accuracy reaching 5ns TE accuracy –
characteristics of a transport networks that are particularly
important for efficient 5G mobile network deployments. We
believe the SkyFlux platform is ideal for mobile and fixed network
operators and broadband service providers, as it is optimized for
use as a highly efficient backhaul, metro aggregation packet
transport network."
Key features of SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport include:
- Interfaces up to 400GE
- Segment Routing MPLS (SR-MPLS)
- MPLS-TP support for interoperation with legacy networks and
smooth migration path
- FlexE/G.mtn with bonding/sub-rating/channelization of
links
- Extra-low latency forwarding with FlexE/G.mtn
Cross-Connect
- Highly accurate time synchronization reaching 5ns TE accuracy
per node, PTP IEEE1588v2 and SyncE support
- Multi-layer hard and soft network slicing
- Comprehensive OAM and protection
- Integration with external SDN, standard interfaces including
NETCONF/YANG, BGP-LS, PCEP
- Small footprint, 300mm depth rack installation
The first product of the SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport
platform is the SkyFlux SPN805S – a modular 5RU chassis-based
platform optimized for high-capacity access and aggregation
applications. With its advanced hardware and software architecture,
high performance and solid feature set, the SPN805S is designed to
help service providers and network operators address the challenges
and meet the requirements of 5G mobile network and other
applications. These include rapidly growing traffic volumes,
network slicing, low latency, accurate timing over packet network,
etc.
Major product features of SkyFlux SPN805S include:
- 640Gbps switching capacity
- 1GE/10GE/25GE/50GE/100GE UNI/NNI
- 50GE/100GE FlexE NNI
- FlexE/G.mtn, FlexE/G.mtn Cross-Connect
- Segment Routing (SR-MPLS), MPLS-TP
- Highly accurate time synchronization reaching 5ns TE
accuracy
- 5RU chassis, 300mm depth rack installation
- 12 line card slots
- 1+1 redundancy for major components including a switching
fabric/controller and a power supply.
Along with the release of the new SkyFlux Converged Packet
Transport platform, UTStarcom announced availability of Version 3.2
of its Integrated Management and Control platform SOO Station SDN
Controller. The SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport platform is
tightly coupled with the centralized SDN controller SOO Station
that provides intelligent control of underlying network resources,
network automation features and full-featured network management
enabling quick and efficient network deployment, operation and
maintenance.
UTStarcom’s Vice President of Optical Network Systems R&D,
Ms. Lingrong Lu said: “This release of SOO Station Version 3.2
enhanced with the support of our SR platform and adding several
powerful features is a major step forward in our strategy to
deliver to network operators and service providers an efficient
networking platform optimized for the variety of modern
applications including 5G midhaul and backhaul, edge data center /
MEC interconnect networks, next generation metro aggregation.
Deployed together with our SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport
platform, the SOO Station controller provides open and programmable
environment that enables operators to build highly scalable,
flexible networks that are easy to adapt to changing business
needs.”
The SOO Station release 3.2 adds support of features that are
essential for the SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport platform,
including:
- Support of Segment Routing control plane in the controller
including SID management, SR policy, SR tunnels
- Path Calculation Engine (PCE) with support of intelligent
multi-factor path calculation, and re-calculation in the case of
network state change
- Service auto-recovery – based on pre-calculated protection
paths and/or dynamic
- Network Slicing – soft network slicing based on vNet and
SR-based L2/L3VPN tunnels in specified vNet-based slices
- Service Cutover including Change PE node and Change/Insert P
node for seamless and effortless network and service
manipulations
Release of Financial Results for the First Half of 2020
UTStarcom today also announced that it will postpone the release
of its financial results for the first six months ended June 30,
2020 due to some undetermined items.
About UTStarcom Holdings Corp.
UTStarcom is committed to helping network operators offer their
customers the most innovative, reliable and cost-effective
communication services. UTStarcom offers high performance advanced
equipment optimized for the most rapidly growing network functions,
such as mobile backhaul, metro aggregation and broadband access.
UTStarcom has operations and customers around the world, with a
special focus on Japan and India. UTStarcom was founded in 1991 and
listed its shares on the Nasdaq Market in 2000 (symbol: UTSI). For
more information about UTStarcom, please visit
http://www.utstar.com.
For investor and media inquiries, please
contact:
In China
UTStarcom Holdings Corp.Tel: +86 571 8192 8888Ms. Ning Jiang,
Investor RelationsEmail: njiang@utstar.com / utsi-ir@utstar.com
In the United States:
The Blueshirt Group Mr. Ralph FongTel: +1 (415) 489-2195Email:
ralph@blueshirtgroup.com
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