Networking major Cisco on Tuesday announced the launch of Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) for Indian telecom service providers.
Telecoms such as Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone India, China Mobile, etc. can benefit from Cisco NCS as the network fabric family is designed to serve as the foundation of a scalable and more adaptable Internet.
“NCS will provide a competitive edge to service providers in India who are currently grappling with multiple challenges, and will help prepare their infrastructure to create differentiated consumer experiences in order to capitalize on market opportunities offered by the data/ video growth and device proliferation,” said Sanjay Rohatgi, managing director, Service Provider Sales, Cisco India and SAARC.
Global telecom service providers including BSkyB (Sky), KDDI and Telstra are deploying the Cisco NCS to create new revenue streams, simplify operations and deliver exciting personalized experiences to their customers.
The system’s programmability and virtualization capabilities enable service providers to accelerate the transition to software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV).
Cisco, during a press meet in Delhi, said the NCS is designed to facilitate Internet of Everything (IoE) events, which can be ongoing conversations creating strings of interactivity between people, applications and devices, such as wearable health monitors linking with personal information and cloud-based health portals or 4G LTE-connected automobiles.
Cisco is expecting huge market opportunity in the machine 2 machine space.
With trillions of new connected events predicted to occur over Internet networks in the next decade, service providers have significant monetization opportunities during this timeframe, particularly in certain vertical markets, such as healthcare ($174 billion), manufacturing ($284 billion), and smart homes ($850 billion), according to Machina Research.
But some of NCS versions are hitting the telecom market next year.
Cisco says NCS 6000 is shipping with the industry’s first 1 Tbps line card and the capability of transporting up to 5 Tbps per slot and 1.2 Pbps per system, to support a converged IP and optical environment.
NCS 4000, which will be available in the first half of 2014, will support 400 Gbps per slot and 6.4 Terabits per system and be available in single, back-to-back, and multi-chassis configurations. It will also support optical transport network (OTN), dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), SONET and Ethernet applications.
NCS 2000, shipping today, connects DWDM transport networks at rates of 100 Gbps and beyond and supports dynamic network configurability with 96-channel, next-generation intelligent ROADM capabilities.
