Alcatel Removes Barriers to Metro Ethernet VPN Adoption with Industry-First Frame-to-Ethernet VPN Service Interworking.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2003 Broad adoption of more cost-effective and scalable Ethernet VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. services now possible with simple upgrade on existing frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. services Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALA) today announced the industry's first service interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. capability between widely deployed frame relay services and emerging Ethernet Virtual Private Network (VPN) services. By eliminating the need for all sites to be connected via Ethernet to communicate with each other, Alcatel becomes the first vendor to remove a constraint that, until now, has limited widespread Ethernet service adoption. Via a simple software upgrade, service interworking enables carriers to offer cost-effective, high-speed Ethernet access that works with their installed base of frame relay services in a completely transparent manner to create a unified virtual VPN. This capability is considered crucial to service providers who want to offer high-speed Ethernet services to their customers that have higher bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal at many locations, but do not want the risk or costs associated with migration of the entire network to an all-Ethernet-based offering. "Recognizing the value of cash generation from existing data services is of utmost importance to the service providers," says Christin Flynn, director, Carrier Convergence Infrastructure, Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. . "Alcatel's strategy to emphasize interworking between frame relay and new metro Ethernet A metropolitan area network (MAN) that uses a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) backbone rather than SONET/SDH links. Ethernet offers a more economical alternative. In a Metro Ethernet network, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) may be deployed to provide quality of service (QoS). services will be welcomed by the service provider community." Alcatel service interworking enables carriers to offer switched VPN services to their customers with the choice of mixing frame or cell relay A transmission technology that uses small fixed-length packets (cells) that can be switched at high speed. It is easier to build a switch that switches fixed-length packets than variable ones. ATM uses a type of cell relay technology. with Ethernet access to the VPN. Available today on the industry-leading Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP RSP right sacroposterior (position of the fetus). ), service interworking will allow enterprises and carriers to deploy the most appropriate access technology at each site. For example, a corporate head office could increase its flexibility by using high-speed Ethernet access at 200 Mb/s - with the ability to grow in segments as small as 1 Mb/s - but its branch office access and customer premises equipment See CPE. would remain unchanged, using the same reliable frame relay service at existing access rates without the expense and risk associated with a network migration. All locations would continue to share a single VPN, making it fully transparent to end-users. "Metro Ethernet service revenues represent one of the fastest-growing segments in the telecom industry, and Alcatel is uniquely positioned to offer a complete carrier-class solution to the market," said Michel Rahier, president of Alcatel's fixed networking activities. "Service interworking enables service providers to retain existing customers, as well as the associated revenue, while allowing them the flexibility to meet their mission critical business requirements with new Ethernet-based services. By removing the barriers for our customers to delivering flexible Ethernet services we aim to dramatically increase the worldwide adoption rate of emerging Ethernet VPN technology." The service interworking feature on the Alcatel 7670 RSP works with Alcatel's entire end-to-end metropolitan Ethernet offering which includes a broad portfolio of optical, broadband, switching and routing products. About Alcatel Alcatel provides end-to-end communications solutions, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver content to any type of user, anywhere in the world. Leveraging its long-term leadership in telecommunications networks equipment as well as its expertise in applications and network services, Alcatel enables its customers to focus on optimizing their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of Euro 16.5 billion in 2002, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, http://www.alcatel.com |
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