They call it the Two Ton Terabit gateway
Creative engineering by a team led by mobile operator Turkcell has created a network throughput of nearly 200 terabits of data (two tons) per second at its Gebze facility in Turkey. A team led by Gediz Sezgin, the chief technology officer for the Turkish mobile operator, used a distributed disaggregated backbone router (DDBR) technology as an Internet gateway. The technology was pioneered by the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and this was the first use of this system in the world.
The DDBR system comprises a Drivenets Network Operating System (DNOS) software with UfiSpace and Edgecore Networks hardware. DDBR is an operator driven initiative developed by TIP’s Open Optical and Transport (OOPT) Project Group that defines the requirements of an open and disaggregated solution for core routing applications such as Provider Backbone and Peering. The design gives operators the option to select the best white box hardware and software combinations for each job. The ability to “right-size” initial DDBR deployments lets operators optimise their costs with a Pay-As-You-Grow model without compromising long term scalability of their projects.
“The TIP DDBR solution is the first of its kind in the world and will deliver cost-effective and reliable connectivity for all our customers by its unique distributed model,” said Turkcell CTO Sezgin. TIP, Drivenets, Edgecore Networks and UfiSpace all contributed to the successful project, said Sezgin. Software company DriveNets says it ‘builds networks like clouds’ and gives mobile operators new way to build networks.
It is critical for mobile operators to be able to tune each installation without sacrificing their capacity to scale up, according to Hanson Tuang, Connectivity and Ecosystems Manager at Meta. “DDBR is a significant step in the transformation of core routing solutions from monolithic to distributed architectures and gives CSPs a greater level of control on optimising their costs,” said Tuang.