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UTStarcom Announces New Product in its SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport Platform
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UTStarcom (“UTStarcom” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:UTSI), a global telecommunications infrastructure
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[{"type":"text","content":"HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UTStarcom (“UTStarcom” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:UTSI), a global telecommunications infrastructure provider, announced today a new product in the SkyFlux product line, the SkyFlux SPN803S, following the recent introduction of its cutting-edge Converged Packet Transport platform, SkyFlux.\n The product is intended to be used as an access layer node in 4G/5G transport networks, as well as serving other applications, including edge data center interconnect and high-capacity broadband aggregation. The product shares all the key features and benefits of the SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport Platform, including support of Segment Routing over MPLS (SR-MPLS) and MPLS-TP tunneling, TDM-like Ethernet based on FlexE/G.mtn, highly accurate time synchronization and SDN-based network intelligence and automation. The SkyFlux SPN803S is fully compatible and designed to work in the same network together with other SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport platform products, including the SkyFlux SPN805S aggregation device and SOO Station Release 3.2 SDN Controller released earlier this year. Dr. Zhaochen Huang, UTStarcom’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, commented, \"As 5G network rollouts accelerate, we intend to support the industry by delivering the most needed transport network infrastructure products designed and optimized specifically for 5G. This new product release that is launched shortly after the initial release of the SkyFlux Converged Packet Transport platform demonstrates our focus on this market and ambition to be one of the market leaders in 5G transport networking.” UTStarcom’s Senior Vice President of Product & Technology, Mr. Steven Chen, said, “The SkyFlux SPN803S plays a highly important role of an Access node in our Converged Packet Transport portfolio addressing connectivity requirements of 5G DU, CU, MEC. It is optimized for use in 5G midhaul and backhaul networks including the Cell-Side Router (CSR) application scenario, providing high switching capacity of 320Gbps, and a large number of 10GE/25GE (and larger) user Ethernet interfaces needed to provide sufficient capacity to DU/CU nodes of 5G network. High-performance aggregation and seamless traffic forwarding over the backhaul network is achieved in the SkyFlux SPN803S as a result of the support of FlexE transport and Segm...