24 Fast Ethernet ports over STM-16

Often, the deployment of broadband services is blocked by the investment in infrastructure that is associated with it, which represents a loss of competitiveness for telecommunications operators and slow penetration in strategic areas.

With AnySAE 24FE, TELNET offers telecommunications operators a way to provide FastEthernet access services – quickly and economically – over existing SDH infrastructure.  

AnySAE 24FE is a module that is plugged into a MiniSAE or MetroSAE chassis and that has 24 FastEthernet ports and 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The traffic carried over these interfaces is multiplexed in an STM-16 container according to the GFP (Generic Frame Procedure) system. This transport technique guarantees that each FastEthernet channel is located in a closed GFP container, avoiding traditional level 2 or 3 aggregation mechanisms.

In operating configuration in which traffic is carried only over the Fast Ethernet ports, bandwidth management does not have to be applied. Also, when the four Gigabit ports are used in addition to the Fast Ethernet ports, bandwidths can be set for each of the ports to distribute the 2.4 Gbps of bandwidth available for transport.

The AnySAE 24FE module is available in RJ-45 and 100FX versions, with the latter also available with different optical powers and single-fiber. In all cases, the Gigabit interfaces and the STM-16 output are based on SFP optical modules, so it is possible to plug colored optical components in to work in CWDM or DWDM optical multiplexing scenarios.