As the lifeblood running through Sycamore switches, ASON/GMPLS-compliant BroadLeaf software enables support for existing and emerging technologies and services, mesh survivability, and multi-vendor, multi-layer interoperability. Together, BroadLeaf and SILVX empower network operators to increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs, enhance service differentiation, and guarantee service level agreements with confidence. Simply put, intelligent software sets Sycamore switches apart.

• Realize the cost savings and operational benefits of an intelligent control plane without disrupting existing networks and services
• Ensure rapid service recovery – even from multiple, simultaneous network failures – as proven in Tier 1 network deployments
• Increase service differentiation with easily customized protection schemes and guarantee service level agreements with confidence
• Establish a robust software foundation for seamless evolution from circuits to packets, and gradual transition toward automated networks and dynamic services

Exceptional network and service awareness, unmatched scalability, and diverse protection options enable rapid, end-to-end provisioning while reducing operational cost and complexity. Fully integrated and shared across Sycamore's edge-to-core switching portfolio, BroadLeaf optimizes bandwidth utilization in any network architecture and simplifies the introduction of process automation and mesh restoration.

• Common networking software, unified under a single management view, empowers the instant provisioning, routing, protection, restoration and management of end-to-end connections
• Unmatched topology, element, and capacity awareness shortens time-to-revenue and supplies real-time data that improves network management, planning, and traffic engineering
• Diversely routed circuits and distributed intelligence enhance survivability and disaster recovery in mission-critical communications networks
• Architected to support evolving interoperability standards and control plane technologies and enable more efficient, cost-optimized next-generation transport architectures

BroadLeaf® Networking Software

• ASON/GMPLS-compliant control plane software
• Standard OSPF-based routing and MPLS-based signaling
• Automatic topology discovery
• In-band/out-of-band control plane
• Manually defined or automated path/circuit route selection and provisioning
• Multi-vendor, multi-layer internetworking

Network Architecture and Protection Switching

• Linear, Ring, Mesh, and Hybrid
• Per port software configurable
• 1+1 Linear APS/MSP
• UPSR/SNCP
• 2- and 4-fiber BLSR/MS-SPRing
• 1+1 Path Protected
• Dynamic Mesh Restoration
• Gateway between SONET and SDH
• IP-based and OSI-based DCC interoperability

Datasheets

• BroadLeaf Networking Software
• SILVX Intelligent Network Management
• SN 16000 Intelligent Optical Switching Platform – Service Provider
• SN 16000 Intelligent Optical Switching Platform – Government
• SN 9000 Intelligent Multiservice Switch – Service Provider
• SN 9000 Intelligent Multiservice Switch – Government
• SN 3000 Intelligent Optical Edge Switch – Service Provider
• SN 3000 Intelligent Optical Edge Switch – Government

Application Notes

• Control Plane Intelligence for Multiservice Networks
• Field-Proven Intelligent Optical Control Plane Solutions

Byline

• Intelligent Optical Layer Improves Broadband Disaster Recovery – Lightwave

White Paper

• Proven Operational Benefits and Business Value of Optically Switched Networks

• SILVX Network Management System
• SN 16000 Intelligent Optical Switch
• SN 9000 Intelligent Multiservice Switch
• SN 3000 Intelligent Optical Edge Switch