The metro Ethernet market continues to grow, but increased competition and customer churn have metro service providers demanding solutions that can help increase revenue and lower operational costs. Designed from the ground-up for high service density, BlackDiamond 12800R series switches help enable metro service providers to increase revenue opportunities with more subscribers, and more services per subscriber.

New technology innovations built into BlackDiamond 12800R series switches facilitate scaling and managing larger networks. Services are protected with carrier-class hardware, software, and network protection capabilities. The primary benefits of the switch can be classified into three categories: