NEC Launches New Switching Communications System

Japanese internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions provider NEC Corporation has announced the availability of its latest addition to the Pasolink microwave communications system, the Pasolink NEO iP, which is claimed to provide new levels of throughput and traffic engineering intelligence to backhaul transmission, and helps customers to transform their networks to scalable and all-IP backhaul systems.

According to the company, the new Pasolink NEO series offers advanced functionality, which is required for the transport of 2G, 3G, HSPA, WiMAX and LTE traffic from radio access base stations to base station control systems. The Pasolink iP enables backhaul revenue streams with SLA level bandwidth management, and guarantees backhaul sharing.

The new Pasolink NEO series as well as future LTE topology switching and protection requirements, claim to provide more than 1Gbps of transmission capacity, native ethernet framing, multi-service aggregation, PWE3 (Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge), traffic engineering features, MPLS switching, network synchronization functions and GbE ring protection.