MRV Extends Carrier Ethernet to the Edge with OptiPacket OP-X1

MRV Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVC) has extended its Optipacket packet-optical transport systems line with the OptiPacket OP-X1 access platform. The new system is designed to enable operators to extend 100-Gbps Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE2.0) capabilities to the last mile of their networks. The OP-X1 offers a mix of 10- and 100-Gbps Ethernet interfaces, as well as 800 Gbps of switching capacity. The 2RU system requires less than 0.7 W per Gbps, MRV asserts. The company foresees the OP-X1 as useful in applications that require bandwidth extension to 100-Gbps customers or to a large number of 10-Gbps customers. The OP-X1 operating system is based on MRV’s MasterOS, an open Linux software platform that is deployed on all of MRV’s switching products and is designed to provide a path to software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). The new platform shares common hardware interface cards with the OP-X4 3.2-Tbps chassis. This factor offers operators flexibility in service offerings and ready access to higher capacity in a complete end-to-end metro network product line, MRV states. MRV foresees operators deploying the OP-X1 in a variety of different applications, such as a 100-Gbps Ethernet NID and an 800-Gbps Ethernet aggregator.