Choice One Selects Lucent Technologies and Juniper Networks to Enhance IP Infrastructure for Broadband Services.MURRAY HILL Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
See: New York Stock Exchange :LU) and Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. (Nasdaq: JNPR JNPR Juniper Networks, Inc. (stock symbol) ) today announced a contract with Choice One Communications Choice One Communications is a Rochester, New York-based CLEC providing Telecommunications services to commercial entities. The company was founded in 1998 as an "alternative to the incumbent local phone carriers". , an integrated communications provider, to upgrade the carrier's 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) network with Juniper Networks routing platforms. Under the one-year agreement, Choice One, which offers facilities-based voice and data telecommunications services, including Internet solutions, to clients in 29 Northeast and Midwest markets, is deploying Juniper Networks M-series routing platforms to improve network performance to support the increasing demand for broadband services. Choice One selected Lucent Technologies and Juniper Networks over competing solutions. Among its services, Choice One offers DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary (Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and ) service directly to its enterprise customers and through wholesale arrangements to other carriers. The Juniper Networks M-series routing platforms will consolidate broadband traffic from multiple users, apply Quality of Service (QoS) for value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services and provide predictable, secure and highly available transport across the network. "In selecting the Juniper platform to meet our ever-increasing IP network requirements, Choice One is getting a high performance, scalable and cost-effective router solution that provides the reliability that our clients are demanding," said Bob Bailey, SVP-Technology, Choice One Communications. "Lucent continues to work closely with Choice One to help our customer meet its business objectives. Lucent's strategy allows it to deliver the most effective solutions to Choice One, whether home-grown, based on a partnership, such as with Juniper Networks or in combination," said Gerry Cafaro, vice president for Lucent Technologies "The strategic relationship between Juniper Networks and Lucent enables Choice One to deliver revenue-generating services to their customers with a secure and assured experience," Christine Heckart, vice president of marketing at Juniper Networks. "With the M-series, Service Providers can process their network traffic with high levels of reliability and intelligence for assured service delivery without performance compromise." About Choice One Headquartered in Rochester, New York This article is about the city of Rochester in Monroe County. For the town in Ulster County, see Rochester, Ulster County, New York. Rochester, once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City or , Choice One Communications Inc. is a leading integrated communications provider offering voice and data services including Internet solutions, to businesses in 29 metropolitan areas (markets) across 12 Northeast and Midwest states. Choice One reported $330 million of revenue in 2004, has more than 100,000 clients and employs approximately 1,400 colleagues. Additional information can be found at www.choiceonecom.com. About Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers A Communications Service Provider or CSP is a company that transports information electronically. The term encompasses public and private companies in the wireline, wireless, Internet, cable, satellite, and managed services businesses. , governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit www.lucent.com. About Juniper Networks, Inc. Juniper Networks is the leader in enabling secure and assured communications over a single IP network. The company's purpose-built, high performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions worldwide rely on Juniper Networks to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the specific needs of their users, services and applications. Juniper Networks' portfolio of proven networking and security solutions supports the complex scale, security and performance requirements of the world's most demanding networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net. 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