 | Enable reduced development time and costs
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 | Support reduced total cost of ownership
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 | Apply to edge, core, transport and data centre
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 | Apply to wireless, wireline and optical network elements
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 | Support a rich mix of processors, digital processors (DSPs), network processors (NPs), storage and inputs/output (I/O)
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 | Integrate with multiple network elements
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 | Provide multi-protocol support for interface up to 40 Gbps
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 | Offer high levels of modularity and configurability
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 | Improve volumeric efficiency
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 | Improve power distribution and management
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 | Offer an advanced software infrastructure providing operating system (Oss), application programming interface (API) and operation administration management and provisioning (OAM & P)
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 | Offer world-class elements cost and operational expense
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 | Provide high levels of service availability (99.999% and greater) through the integration of features for resiliency, redundancy, serviceability and manageability
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 | Support appropriate scalability of System performance and capacity
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