Alcatel and Cisco Demonstrate Interoperability Between IP ATM and Tag Switching.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1998--Alcatel and Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. announced today interoperability between Alcatel's IP ATM(tm) solution and Cisco's Tag Switching A layer 3 switching technology from Cisco that is used in large enterprise networks (WANs). It uses tags (labels) containing forwarding information. Tag switching uses routers (Tag Edge Routers) that sit on the periphery of the network and make forwarding decisions for all the routers in . This interoperability will be demonstrated in Alcatel's booth # 4213, June 7-11 at SUPERCOMM '98. Alcatel and Cisco have been closely cooperating in several areas of development since their strategic agreement was announced a year ago. This development includes joint interoperability testing of Tag Switching on the Cisco 7200 and 7500 series routers and the Alcatel1100 HSS HSS Humanities and Social Sciences HSS High Speed Steel HSS Home Subscriber Server (3GPP) HSS Hospital for Special Surgery (New York, NY, USA) HSS Hospital for Special Surgery HSS History of Science Society (R) Multiservice Switch (1) A network switch that not only handles data, but adequately supports the real time transmission of voice and video. (2) A network device that supports multiple switching and routing protocols. . Tag Switching enables the direct application of Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) to Asynchronousan advanced switching feature of the carrier-cl it is ratified. By integrating Cisco IOS, IP Aels and high-speed, flexible service provisioning across large networks. 1-NET Singapore PTE PTE The ISO 4217 currency code for the Portugese Escudo. . Ltd., the world's first nationwide commercial ATM network, signed a MemorandTM. "Alcatel's relationship with Cisco has, they can offer advanced, differentiated IP services and guaranteed service-level agreements." "This market," said Tom Downey, director of product marketing for Cisco's Routed WAN Business Unit. "By working tocatel Alcatel designs, manufactures, andbmarine cable networks, as well as radio communications, space, and defense systems. With operations in more are available at http://www.adn.alcatel.com. ademark of Alcatel Data Networks, Inc. Cisco, Cisco Systems, and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other coperty of their respective owners. |
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