Telstra deploys ADVA Metro kit. 3000 will be part of optical infrastructure solution deployed by Siemens in major Australian cities for Telstra - New

ADVA Optical Networking announced that its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 3000 will be part of the optical infrastructure solution deployed by Siemens in major Australian cities for telecommunications carrier Telstra. Telstra awarded Siemens IC Networks with a 3-year frame contract and preferred supplier status in 2003 for the carrier's nationwide 10Gbit/s optical backbone network.

The frame contract includes ADVA's FSP 3000 carrier-class metro infrastructure system, Siemens' Multiservice Provisioning Platform Surpass hiT 70xx series, and Siemens' Surpass hit 7500 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) long-haul equipment. Siemens has a strategic partnership with ADVA, which includes reselling the FSP 3000. The FSP 3000 will be seamlessly integrated into Telstra's Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) transmission network, since it is managed by Siemens' Transport Network Management System (TNMS) at Telstra's Global Operations Centre. As Siemens builds a nationwide 10Gbit/s optical backbone network for Telstra in the coming three years, which will serve as the primary backbone for both voice and data services in Australia, the FSP 3000 will be installed at critical junctions in metro areas to interconnect Siemens' long-haul systems.

The FSP 3000 employs parallel use of DWDM and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) technology to enable all protocols between 8Mbit/ s and 10Gbit/s and up to 256 applications to be transported over one single fiber pain The system's design supports point-to-point, linear add/drop, ring, and meshed network topologies with up to ten nodes across distances up to 500 kilometers without regeneration.