Transport Equipment

Media Links Transport equipment includes the MD8000 product line. This is the company's flagship product for media networking and provides highly reliable, pixel perfect delivery of video, audio and data over SONET/SDH, IP and Ethernet networks. MD8000 systems are widely acknowledged for their robust delivery of guaranteed throughput for every circuit transported across its full wire rate switch fabric.

Media Links Transport Equipment offers GFP (Generic Framing Protocol G.7041) for SDH/SONET encapsulation and network interface to handle connections to legacy multiplexing equipment or directly to carrier local and long-haul circuits. In this manner Media Links provides its customers with a legacy network interface acting as a gateway capable of seamlessly migrating traffic onto Ethernet and IP based networks.


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Combination with Layer 2 Ethernet switching

The MD8000 product line includes an integrated, redundant Layer 2 Ethernet switch along with the media adaptation codecs. This capability allows the MD8000 system to be utilized as a single platform at any location replacing media adaptors, edge switching equipment and SONET/SDH grooming equipment. This significantly reduces the number of managed elements in the network and results in lower capital and operational expenses, as well as higher overall reliability.

Layer 2 Ethernet switching provides high performance 10Gbps per port throughput with minimum delay and jitter as well as providing complete wire speed, non-blocking switching. This Layer 2 switching capability can be used to aggregate/de-aggregate transparent or compressed media signals to a common Ethernet, IP or SONET/SDH trunk interface. In addition this switching capability can be utilized to provide drop/add/pass capability between trunk interfaces.



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Combination with Trunk Interfaces

All trunk interfaces can be Ethernet/IP or SONET/SDH and all within the same chassis. This allows the MD8000 system to provide media and Ethernet services to end users while taking advantage of legacy SONET/SDH networks and allowing migration to Ethernet/IP networks.

In addition services within the MD8000 system can be prioritized and scheduled to allow guaranteed QoS for high value media content as well as best effort service delivery for less important signals. 802.1Q/P VLAN IDs and priority settings are used within the Layer 2 switch to manage QoS of individual streams.

By utilizing the combination of media adaptors, Ethernet/IP/SONET/SDH trunk interfaces and high performance Layer 2 switching, the MD8000 system provides unmatched performance and network flexibility while providing an extremely cost effective solution.

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