Cisco Delivers New MPLS Bandwidth Protection Solution; Industry's First Cost-Effective Alternative to SONET/SDH Protection.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2002 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., today introduces a new 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. ) bandwidth protection solution that provides a cost-effective alternative to SONET/SDH protection. The Cisco MPLS Bandwidth Protection solution is a network architecture that uses MPLS Traffic Engineering Fast Reroute and an offline application called Tunnel Builder Pro which is designed to maximize bandwidth protection at a network-wide level, and to increase network resiliency. This solution helps service providers to minimize and eliminate non-productive redundant circuits, to offer cost-effective global bandwidth protection services resulting in "carrier-class" service-level agreements (SLAs), and to capture increased revenue opportunities. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Joe Fusco, director of Private IP Services at Infonet, "MPLS Traffic Engineering with Fast Reroute and off-line computation tools such as Tunnel Builder Pro are major steps forward in providing QoS-based traffic optimization. This will allow for improved multi-class network management capabilities and delivery to QoS targets, and will aid in resolution of performance issues quickly and with confidence." Widely deployed Cisco MPLS technology, enabled by Cisco IOS(R) Software, provides traffic engineering capabilities that facilitate efficient and reliable network operations while simultaneously optimizing network resource utilization and traffic performance. MPLS Traffic Engineering today uses an online capability to compute best available paths. MPLS using Fast Reroute Link and Node protection alone does not provide network-wide protection. Tunnel Builder Pro solves this problem by computing backup tunnels for bandwidth protection by using a sophisticated algorithm called Hybrid Optimization. The algorithm is intelligent enough to back up bandwidth irrespective of the number of traffic engineering tunnels in the network. To support bandwidth protection, additional Cisco IOS Software features have been added to Fast Reroute Link and Node protection. "Today's announcement demonstrates the enormous potential of MPLS to enable service providers to provide guaranteed bandwidth protection in a cost-effective way," says Irwin Lazar, senior consultant, The Burton Group. Cisco has expanded its widely deployed MPLS Traffic Engineering technology to support new features. Fast Reroute Link and Node protection that offers protection from link failures and node failures (i.e., failure of entire router) have been enhanced to support Resource Reservation Protocol (protocol) Resource Reservation Protocol - (RSVP) A protocol that supports quality of service. http://zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,389107,00.html. (RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. ) Hellos, which are used as a failure detection mechanism for interfaces other than packet over SONET A metropolitan area network (MAN) or wide area network (WAN) transport technology that carries IP packets directly over SONET transmission without any data link facility such as ATM in between. (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) -- as in Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet. Tunnel Builder Pro, developed with Parc Technologies, is an offline application that uses client-server architecture. The client is an HTML-based Java applet that can run on a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , while the server communicates with Cisco routers to configure and monitor them for MPLS Traffic Engineering. Availability Cisco was first to deliver MPLS Traffic Engineering, beginning with Cisco IOS Software Release 12.0 in 1999. The Cisco MPLS Bandwidth Protection solution is available now. Service providers interested in testing or deploying Cisco MPLS Bandwidth Protection Solution should contact their local sales office. Additional information about Cisco MPLS solutions and supported platforms can be found at www.cisco.com/go/mpls. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at www.cisco.com. Cisco, Cisco Systems, the Cisco Systems logo and Cisco IOS are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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