Access Service Aggregation

The Falcon-MX is a highly integrated, high performance, service aggregation and demarcation system, delivering high end Carrier Ethernet services. This product extensively supports the evolving needs for broadband access services delivery, including high throughput, granular SLA enforcement and monitoring, flexible management capabilities, and a high degree of scalability and flexibility to cater for future requirements and technology trends.

Hybrid Architecture

The Falcon-MX primarily addresses the rapidly expanding market of mobile backhauling and business access applications. The Falcon-MX’s extensible hybrid (ASIC-FPGA) HW architecture supports remote data plane upgrades, as well as adding processing capacity via expansion modules. The Falcon-MX delivers a complete toolbox for precision timing based on SyncE, PTP, GNSS, etc., suitable for all modes of mobile backhaul applications. The system is equipped with an expansion slot that can be utilized for multiple functions, such as a Rubidium Atomic Clock Module (for timing applications), or a processor/storage module (for SDN/NFV enabled environments). The Falcon-MX is also designed to perform as a 10G demarcation device (on applicable models).

The Falcon-MX series is equipped with up to 24 dual-rate FE/GE SFP ports, up to 4 tri-speed Copper ports and up to 4 10G SFP+ uplink ports. All ports can operate at full wire speed, with a total processing capacity of 160Gbps (nonblocking). The Falcon-MX offers advanced Quality of Service (QoS) features including classification and mapping based on layer 1 through layer 4 attributes, rate limiting per service, with highly flexible scheduling, queuing and shaping options (including HQoS).

All MEF defined services (EPL, EVPL, ELAN, etc) can be configured on the Falcon-MX series and can also be protected through use of high performance mechanisms, based on G.8031, G.8032, etc., for link, path, and ring resilience. These features make the Falcon-MX a highly comprehensive package that can handle virtually any network topology and type of service. The system implements current OAM standards (802.3ah, 802.1ag, Y.1731with HW assist as well as proactive measurements and alarming facilities. To complete the OAM toolset, the Falcon-MX has a built in packet generator and analyzer to implement RFC2544/Y.1564 for quick service turn-up and verification. The Falcon-MX series is MEF CE2.0 compliant. The Falcon-MX devices are packaged in a robust 19"/1RU housing allowing the installation of hot swappable redundant AC and/or DC power supplies.

Key Features