CoSine Communications Announces General Availability of IP Service Delivery Platform.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 1999-- Company Successfully Concludes North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Beta Trials and Begins Shipment of the IP Service Delivery Platform to Tier-One Carriers CoSine Communications Inc., the leading provider of managed IP service delivery platforms for Business IP Service Providers, announced today that the company has successfully concluded beta trials in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and that the IP Service Delivery Platform is now generally available to Tier-One carriers. CoSine's platform is the first to empower Service Providers to deliver the greatly anticipated next wave of managed Internet services such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. services enable Service Providers to realize higher profits from their existing network infrastructure and provide their subscribers with the highest value. CoSine's network-based IP Service Delivery Platform allows Service Providers to deploy all of the following value-added IP services: -0-
-- Site-to-site VPNs: the ability to create secure VPN connections
between offices
-- Remote-access dial-up VPNs: the ability to create secure VPN
connections for mobile workers
-- Managed firewall: the ability to offer network-based application
proxy firewall services on top of Internet access
-- Extranets: the ability to create secure VPN connections for
suppliers, partners and customers
-- Frame Relay to IPSec Interworking: the ability to securely extend
legacy Frame Relay networks with IP network services
-0- "CoSine has made significant progress in quickly bringing its IP Service Delivery Platform to market and has taken a step ahead of the competition in what will be a very competitive market," said Curtis Price Sir Curtis Price, KBE, is the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music and a professor of music at the University of London. In 2005, Professor Price was made an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his services to music. , data communications analyst (job) data communications analyst - A person who installs, maintains, and troubleshoots data networks. A data communications analyst may have knowledge of T1 lines, TCP/IP, fiber optics, SNA, frame relay. at Stratecast Partners. "The company has developed a scalable and robust solution that will enable service providers to deliver next-generation IP VPN services, and the openness of the platform will give Service Providers the ability to offer a wider range of IP services. In addition, CoSine's commitment to building a carrier class service and support organization will enable the company to adequately address the needs of large service providers." "CoSine is excited to be the first to market with a carrier-class platform delivering high-value services," said Dean Hamilton Dean Hamilton (born 13 February 1961 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian actor and director. External links , chief executive officer for CoSine. "Our goal was to design and deliver the first platform with the scalability, management and processing power required to achieve the next wave of value-added business Internet services such as VPNs. We have achieved this goal in the North American marketplace, and we will continue to work toward being a major enabler for the growth of the VPN services market worldwide." The IP Service Delivery Platform includes the IPSX 9000(TM) non-stop IP service processing switch, a carrier-class switch Typically refers to highly reliable TDM-based circuit switches used by the telephone companies. See end office switch and tandem switch. capable of supporting thousands of subscriber networks, the InGage(TM) Customer Network Management System and the InVision(TM) Service Management System (SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ). Concurrent with the general availability announcement for the North American marketplace, CoSine is pursuing homologation Certification, confirmation or approval. Data communications equipment is often subject to the homologation requirements of various countries. in international markets, anticipating the completion of beta trials overseas. The company recently became the first network-based VPN equipment provider to receive approval from the U.S. Government to export products supporting the 168-bit IPSec/Triple Data Encryption Standard See DES. Data Encryption Standard - (DES) The NBS's popular, standard encryption algorithm. It is a product cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of data, using a 56-bit key. It is defined in FIPS 46-1 (1988) (which supersedes FIPS 46 (1977)). (DES) to international Service Providers. About CoSine Communications Founded in 1997 and based in Redwood City, Calif., CoSine Communications is the developer of a new class of IP service delivery platforms designed specifically to enable carrier-class service providers, including Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) and interexchange carriers, to quickly and reliably turn up services to their wholesale and retail subscribers. For more information about CoSine, please contact Suzanne Panoplos at (650) 637-4777. |
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