Cisco Systems Chosen to Provide Core Routing Equipment for South Korea's Powercomm; Cisco 12000 Series Internet Routers to Power National Cable Network.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SEOUL, Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 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., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced that it has been selected by Powercomm to provide networking equipment to build the company's core Internet Protocol (IP) network. Once deployed, Powercomm will be able to offer new IP based services to its customers including Virtual Private Networking and Metropolitan Access Networking. Powercomm's IP core network will utilize Cisco 12416 routers with Gigabit Ethernet line-cards to transport IP traffic originating from its existing cable access network and metropolitan Ethernet access network. Based on Cisco's uBR7200 Series Universal Broadband Router, Powercomm's existing cable access network currently offers high-speed Internet access service to over a million households. The Cisco 12000 series offers industry leading scalability, high performance, and optimized priority packet delivery through an innovative distributed architecture design that enables service providers to accelerate the evolution of the Internet through delivery of profitable, next generation services. The Cisco 12416 Internet router is a 10 Gigabit, 16-slot chassis member of the Cisco 12000 series that provides a total switching capacity of 320 Gigabits per second (Gbps), with 20 Gbps (10 Gbps full duplex) capacity per slot. With its 16-slot chassis and extensive portfolio of line cards including the new Cisco 1-port OC-192c/STM-64c and Cisco 4-port OC-48c/STM-16c POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale interfaces, the Cisco 12416 Internet router supports high-density ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. aggregation and point-of-presence (POP) consolidation. About Powercomm Powercomm is a facility-based telecommunications service provider A Telecommunications Service Provider or TSP is a type of Communications Service Provider that has traditionally provided telephone and similar services. This category includes ILECs, CLECs, and mobile wireless companies. created by the spin off of the electric power communication network business from KEPCO KEPCO Korea Electric Power Corporation KEPCO Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (Japan) KEPCO Kyushu Electric Power Company, Inc. (Japan) (Korea Electric Power This article is about Korean Electric Power Company. For the Japanese Electric Power Company, see Kansai Electric Power Company. Korea Electric Power (NYSE: KEP) is the only electric utility provider in South Korea. Corporation) in accordance with the government's drive to restructure the public corporation sector. Powercomm retains 66,610 km of optical fiber and 44,326 km of hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC 1. (networking) HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) HFC - hydrofluorocarbon. ) cable across the nation and leases lines to 11 other facility-based telecommunications service providers. It also provides a cable TV network service and an Internet access network service. Powercomm is the first service provider in the world to commercialize M-ISP (Multiple Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. -- a service that allows multiple ISPs to share an HFC TV network). Powercomm's HFC network reaches 1,080,000 households. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco Systems news and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. |
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