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Evolution Module
Evolving and Modernizing Optical Communication Features & Benefits
Infrastructure • New interface unit equipped at strategic
JunlgeMUX or TN1U/TN1Ue nodes
GE’s JungleMUX hardened optical networking solutions have protected our customers most
critical assets ensuring safe and reliable delivery of services within harsh industrial environments • Offers a 1G+ Optical Interface for connection to
for over 25 years. Over this period, the product has evolved as technology trends and customers GE’s JunglePAX
needs have changed, leading to new innovation that’s extendable and interoperable with the core • Passes TDM (VT/TU) Traffic from SONET/SDH to
platform operation. MPLS or Hybrid networks
Currently, change comes in the form of an entirely new technology, MPLS (via GE’s JunglePAX),
a label switched approach for service deployment edge to edge. This is not a replacement for
JungleMUX but instead an evolution of the Lentronics Optical Networking family of products, a Protects Existing
strategy that’s convenient, consistent and controlled.
Evolution Module (B86900-01) enables migration to MPLS ring by ring or node by node and offers
Investment
an upgrade opportunity to modernize hardware while preserving highly dependable SONET/SDH • Evolution modules enable new JunglePAX
delay performance for critical services through deployment of JunglePAX Hybrid Mode. Evolution nodes to interoperate within GE’s SONET/SDH
and Hybrid work together to ensure ongoing security and dependability across both SONET/SDH networks
and MPLS planes.
• SONET/SDH rings are preserved to maintain
Our evolution strategies are consistent, convenient and controlled for customers using GE’s network wide application performance
optical multiplexers. We ensure migration from SONET/SDH to packet technologies without
compromising application performance, equipment reliability and network wide availability.
Works with JunglePAX
Evolution Module Hybrid Tranport Mode
An Evolution Module is first installed in GE JungleMUX OC-3, 12 & 48 or TN1U/TN1Ue STM-1, 4 &
16 nodes, then optically connected via the units’ SFP transceiver to a GE JunglePAX node via it’s • To bridge 64k and channelized T1/E1 traffic
1G+ WAN Port. A JunglePAX can be programmed to extract the entire contents of the Bulk VT1.5 between SONET/SDH & MPLS network
/ TU-12, or a selection of shared channels. Each 64kb/s channel can then be carried across the boundaries
JunglePAX network through an MPLS (packetized) or SONET/SDH (non-packetized) service using • Enabling the creation of Hybrid networks
JPAX’s Hybrid Transport Mode. comprised of JunglePAX, JungleMUX &
TN1U/TN1Ue platforms
JungleMUX • Supports Single or Dual-homed ties between
JungleMUX networks
JunglePAX
• Preserve 64k & TDM traffic integrity by
JunglePAX JungleMUX
bypassing packetization, delivering
JunglePAX - Exceptional traffic performance (low
latency & Symmetry) equivalent to TN1U/
Single fiber pair connected to 1G WAN Evolution Module(s), installed TN1Ue Multiplexers
port (carrying Ethernet, packetized TDM within the Multiplexer. Dual-
- SONET/SDH-like determinism without
traffic and non-packetized 64 kb/s traffic) homing is optional
traditional packet-based traffic engineering
and Quality of Service complexities
Example of Evolution modules used to bridge 64kb/s and TDM
traffic from SONET/SDH networks into JPAX
Evolving and Modernizing Optical Communication Infrastructure
Evolution Equation
Evolution Module further simplifies the migration from JungleMUX/TN1U/Ue Multiplexers to JunglePAX on a ring-by-ring or node-by-node basis. When
adding new or modernizing existing substations, utilities may now insert a JunglePAX node into the pre-existing SONET/SDH network without service
impact. This strategy enables a ‘self-paced’ migration of the optical communication infrastructure until the entire network is upgraded.

MUX JPAX Evolution Module SMOOTH TRANSITION TO

B864xx-xx + 900xx-xx & B86900-01 = JunglePAX

Self-paced Migration, Node-by-Node or Ring-by-Ring

Hybrid Mode Hybrid & Evolution working together

When migrating from SONET/SDH to Packet, utilities must When combined, Evolution Module optically connect JMUX/TN1U/TN1Ue
nodes with JunglePAX at single tie site or dual-homed to further improve
• Preserve the highly dependable performance for critical and time
the network reliability. Operational Traffic (OT) can flow between the
sensitive applications, and
two networks uninterrupted and without any protocol conversion or
• Guarantee Interoperability between the platforms. packetization to preserve the performance for each services.
The JunglePAX offers a unique Hybrid Transport Mode to achieve both,
supporting native TDM and MPLS streams on the same fiber. 64kb/s
Teleprotection traffic carried over the JunglePAX network can do so
without packetization, improving latency, asymmetry and determinism.

Evolution Modules and Hybrid Transport Mode work together to ensure

ongoing security and dependability across both SONET/SDH and MPLS
transport layers.

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