Appian Communications To Participate In SUPERCOMM Metro Ethernet Forum SUPERDemo.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2003 ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003 Appian Communications, a leading provider of carrier-class Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH services, today announced that the company will participate in the industry's first public multi-vendor interoperability demonstration of carrier-grade metro Ethernet services at the Metro Ethernet Forum The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) was founded in 2002. It is a non-profit international industry consortium, dedicated to worldwide adoption of Carrier Ethernet networks and services. (MEF MEF Marine Expeditionary Force MEF Metro Ethernet Forum MEF Ministerio de EconomÃa y Finanzas (Spanish) MEF Mobile Entertainment Forum MEF Middle East Forum (think tank) ) SUPERCOMM SUPERDemo showcase, Booth #10115 in Atlanta, GA, June 3-5, 2003. Appian will join twenty-seven vendors who will together demonstrate the delivery of Ethernet-Line (E-Line) and Ethernet-LAN (E-LAN) services through a diversity of access/aggregation networks that are interconnected across a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching core. As part of the demonstration, Appian will provide an Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH access (aggregation) network supporting E-Line and ELAN service applications such as video conferencing, streaming video, IP telephony and Internet access. The Appian Optical Services Activation Platform (OSAP OSAP, n.pr an abbreviation for the Organization for Safety and Asepsis Procedures, a nonprofit organization that consists of dental and health care professionals and others interested in promoting infection control and effective health and safety ) 4800 and OSAP 1600 platforms will aggregate these services through a protected Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH access ring that is also running Appian's Resilient Packet Ring See RPR. implementation. Multi-vendor interoperability will be highlighted as services are groomed onto the Ethernet switching core for distribution to multiple endpoints around the network. Appian will also showcase the company's newly announced Services Termination Unit (STU STU Student STU Secure Telephone Unit STU St. Thomas University (Fredericton, New Brunswick) STU St. Thomas University (Miami, Florida) STU SHDSL ). The STU cost effectively extends carrier-grade Ethernet and TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. services via a high-speed, fully managed fiber connection to the mass market of small and mid-sized business establishments. STU services are groomed by the Appian OSAP to a carrier's standard SONET/SDH and/or IP services backbone, making it part of a complete metro area service delivery solution that reaches from customer location to the first CO, hub or headend facility of a service provider. About Appian Communications Appian's award winning metro access solution extends the industry's most comprehensive suite of carrier-class Ethernet and TDM services to a broad footprint of small, medium, and large business establishments. Built for service migration, the Appian solution is based on a hybrid packet/TDM architecture that optimizes carrier investments in existing transport and back office systems. By bringing the simplicity of Ethernet, advanced QoS and 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. to established SONET/SDH networks, the Appian solution is enabling the migration to resilient, carrier-quality services that include Ethernet Private Lines, Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (L2 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. ), Virtual Private LANs and high bandwidth Frame Relay, ATM and IP service access. Appian products are currently shipping to emerging and established service providers, including NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform Communications, around the world. For more information, please visit www.appiancom.com. Appian Communications, etc. are trademarks of Appian Communications, Inc. All other company, product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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