Cisco Infrastructure Technology Extensively Utilized in SBC Communications OC-192 National IP Network.Business Editors 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)--Dec. 4, 2002 SBC's New Backbone Network A backbone network provides a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.[1] A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. Designed to Reliably and Economically Accommodate Current Subscriber Growth and Lay the Foundation for Future Expansion 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 that SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications Inc. has selected the industry-leading Cisco 12000 Series router to cost-effectively build out a national 10 Gbps OC-192 network to best meet the needs of its business customers today while laying a foundation for the creation and delivery of new services in the future. The new backbone network, developed by an SBC subsidiary, will transport Internet-based services such as Dedicated Internet Access See how to access the Internet. , SBC-Yahoo! 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 , and SBC-Yahoo! Dial. In addition, the network will serve as the foundation for new and emerging IP transport and access capabilities for SBC's business customers. SBC will use MPLS-based traffic engineering to optimize backbone utilization and help meet customer service level agreements. "SBC has developed its national IP backbone network to accommodate surging IP traffic from our customers, while also helping us to reduce operational costs, and establishing a foundation for future services," said Eric Boyer, vice president -- Network Planning and Engineering, SBC. "Cisco industry-leading technology and solutions helped us to upgrade our network and maximize network utilization, providing a cost-effective foundation for the delivery of a new class of national data and IP-based services to our business and residential customers." "We are very pleased to reach another milestone in our long term relationship with SBC by helping them build out a highly reliable and flexible OC-192 national backbone," said Mike Volpi, senior vice president, Routing Technology Group at Cisco. "The Cisco 12000 Series router provides the highest reliability, the richest set of service enablers, the lowest total cost of ownership, and proven investment protection. This innovative combination of features and capabilities enables service providers like SBC to build the most competitive IP and 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. networks." About Cisco 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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