Callipso Selects Riverstone Routers for Deployment in its Nationwide Enhanced IP Network.SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif. -- Callipso, a leading provider of enhanced IP services, today announced an agreement with Riverstone Networks Riverstone Networks, was a provider of networking switching hardware based in Santa Clara, California. Originally part of Cabletron Systems, and based on an early acquisition of YAGO, it was one of the many Gigabit Ethernet startups in the mid 1990's. (RSTN RSTN Radio Solar Telescope Network RSTN Restricted Securities Trading Network RSTN Royals Sports Television Network (Kansas City Royals) RSTN Reflective Super Twisted Nematic .PK) to deploy Riverstone Metro Aggregation and Metro Access Routers in its core private IP network infrastructure. Callipso will also use the products at the edge of its network to aggregate IP traffic from multiple sources, including the public Internet, for a variety of enhanced applications. "The relationship with Riverstone gives Callipso the right strategic technology partner to meet our needs now and in the future," said Ted Dimmer dim·mer n. 1. A rheostat or other device used to vary the intensity of an electric light. 2. a. A parking light on a motor vehicle. b. A low beam. , Chief Technology Officer for Callipso. "Riverstone products combine powerful service creation abilities with support for the wide range of technologies and applications that are present in an enhanced IP platform like ours." Callipso is deploying Riverstone 8000 Metro Aggregation Routers and 3100 Metro Access Routers to replace legacy equipment, support new revenue-generating services and to ensure the high reliability its customers expect. Riverstone routers feature hardware redundancy; the Hitless Protection System, which allows hitless software upgrades; and network protection features like MultiProtocol Label Switching (networking) Multiprotocol Label Switching - (MPLS) A packet switching protocol developed by the IETF. Initially developed to improve switching speed, other benefits are now seen as being more important. (MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. ) Fast Reroute. "Because they are based on MPLS, Riverstone's Ethernet solutions provide a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure, allowing service providers like Callipso to connect multiple sites effectively and efficiently," said David Ginsburg, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management for Riverstone. "Moreover, Callipso will have the ability to run multiple types of traffic over this infrastructure, opening the door for a number of new service offerings." About Callipso Founded in 1996, Callipso provides enhanced IP services to telecommunications carriers, enterprises and the prepaid card marketplace. Callipso addresses today's communications requirements with the industry's leading enhanced IP services, including ProConferencer (TM), a web-based audio conferencing service, and ProCaller(TM), a web-based prepaid phone card platform. When combined with Callipso's private managed IP network, these products serve to bridge the gap between IT and telecom to enable user-defined communications. Callipso, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Santa Ana, California Santa Ana is the most populous city in Orange County, California and is the county seat. It lies approximately 10 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, on the largely seasonal Santa Ana River. , can be found on the Web at www.callipso.com. About Riverstone Riverstone Networks, Inc. (RSTN.PK) is a leading provider of carrier-class solutions for next generation metro Ethernet networks. Riverstone's metro routers and provisioning solutions deliver the ease of use, cost effectiveness, and flexibility that carriers require in meeting their customers' networking requirements in support of voice, video, and data services. Riverstone uniquely permits carriers to offer homogeneous services across existing revenue-generating networks and new Ethernet deployments. |
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