Telecom Lead Asia: Huawei announced MPLS TP-based
operations and maintenance solution for packet transport – Transport Packet
Assist (TP-Assist), at Europe’s Transport Network for Mobile Operator forum
(TNMO).
Transport Packet Assist is developed based on an extended
version of MPLS-TP protocol.
The Chinese telecom equipment vendor is trying to tap a
big market opportunity as packet transport networks are expanding every day.
The market is offering challenges for operators such as network planning
complexities, service quality control issues, and higher operations and
maintenance costs.
Huawei claims that the TP-Assist solution integrates
optical and microwave packet transport on deployed networks, enabling operators
to deploy large-scale packet transport networks and increase operations and
maintenance efficiency.
“Huawei is one of the few providers that has
invested steadily in innovative solutions for optical and microwave transport
integration and packet transport. The MPLS-TP protocol adopted by the TP-Assist
solution represents of the direction of packet transport network evolution.
This protocol can help our customers smoothly realize packet service
transformation while maintaining a healthy bottom line,” said Joe Zhou,
vice president, Transport product line, Huawei.
This solution offers operational and maintenance
functions, such as the automatic planning assistance tool, instrument-free
remote commissioning, one-click service provisioning, 360-degree network
performance monitoring, automatic network health checks and smart fault
diagnosis. The fast service rollouts and quick fault troubleshooting will help
lower operational expenditure.
According to Ovum, Huawei ranked No. 1 worldwide in the
optical network, WDM/OTN and 40G DWDM network markets in the fourth quarter of
2011. Huawei is also regarded as a strong performer in the 100G DWDM field.
To date, Huawei has deployed 20 commercial 100G DWDM
networks and conducted more than 50 trial networks for 100G DWDM.
