WaveRouter family
The WaveRouter® family of purpose-built coherent metro routers is designed to unify IP and optical in the metro—with ultimate flexibility, future-ready extensibility, and improved network sustainability. WaveRouter easily and flexibly scales WAN traffic, with the ability to scale up and out, delivering capacity when and where it’s needed. With optional WaveLogic™ capabilities, WaveRouter can support dense, any-to-any, high-capacity coherent routing and switching metro applications at speeds of 100/200/400/800GbE and 1.6 Tb/s.
Features and benefits
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Multi-layer (IP/Optical) awareness and coordination
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Commercial temperature (0°C to +40°C) for space-constrained locations
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Separate modular redundant controller and fabric, providing scale from 6 to 192 Tb/s
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IP routing, BGP-LU, SR-MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, and SRv6 ready
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MACsec and IPsec ready
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SDN management, including support for protocols such as NETCONF/YANG and gNMI/gRPC with dial-in/dial-out streaming telemetry
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Single management IP
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Navigator Network Control Suite™
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Hot-swappable redundant and scalable power
How does WaveRouter fit into coherent routing?
Ciena’s coherent routing provides network operators a path to achieve IP/Optical convergence designed to optimize performance through multi-layer operations, dynamic scalability, and improved overall sustainability. With WaveRouter, operators have more choice in how to rapidly and cost-effectively scale their metro networks to address surging bandwidth demands and new services.
Metro convergence success needs an intelligent programmable optical layer, driven by multi-layer operations.
What is optimized network convergence?
The ability to dynamically, economically, and efficiently scale to meet unpredictable bandwidth demand is foundational to today’s networks. Optimized network convergence meets these requirements by maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the IP and optical layers. WaveRouter delivers this higher standard of performance by seamlessly integrating IP routing and DWDM.
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WatchFlexible commons, fabric, and interface modules
The WaveRouter family of coherent metro routers offers metro operators a way to easily scale up with extensible switch fabric and flexible cabling options for nonadjacent rows. WaveRouter can reduce blast radius, spread thermal load over multiple racks, and take advantage of fragmented racks.
Control Timing Module
- 1 + 1 redundant
- Route processor (RP)
- Control plane and fabric management
Fabric box (FB, WR-7, and WR-13 only)
- 32 x QSFP-DD or mix of DAC/AEC/AOC ports
- Full duplex between all interface boxes
- N + 1 fabric redundancy
- Any housing slot
- Networking ports:
- 15 x 400/200/100GbE QSFP-DD
- 20 x 400G QSFP-DD fabric ports
- Any housing (2) slot
- Networking ports:
- 4 x subslot 6T interface box:
- 1 x WL6e + 2 x QSFP-DD800
- 4 x subslot 6T interface box:
- 20 x 400G QSFP-DD fabric ports
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