NEC America, Inc. unveiled a new family of optical networking products, including its soon-to-be released Integrated Transport Node (ITN). ITN is a control plane-driven family of products that officials say provides a universal optical switching core, aggregation, and distribution feature set and offers pluggable service interfaces on the edge. NEC believes that carriers will be attracted to this distributed model for optical network management because it allows network operators to drive functionality and performance incrementally across the network.
RBN's Multi-Service Edge Aggregation Supports Service on Demand
RBN Inc, a designer and manufacturer of carrier-class reconfigurable optical transport solutions for metro and access networks, launched its new RBNi GigaEdge 2330, a Multi Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) designed to provide carriers the ability to offer Service on Demand. The product multiplexes SAN, Ethernet, SONET and/or SDH services onto what officials call a protected aggregate. It can be used in standalone configuration, or as a service aggregator into a SONET, SDH or WDM network. The announcement of the new product comes on the heels a just-signed five-year reseller agreement with Marconi. (Interesting note: RBN's technology development was supported by an AusIndustry Start Grant from the Australian Federal Government.)
Level 3 Uses Channel to Expand IP VPN Services in U.S., Europe
Level 3 Communications took advantage of the SUPERCOMM 2004 venue in Chicago this week to unveil an expansion of its IP VPN services by adding channel partners to its sales strategy in pursuit of the enterprise market. Additionally, Level 3 executives report that they are making available a new set of lower speed data services offerings that can run over its wide-area Ethernet, ATM and Frame Relay data networks.
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