CoSine Communications Expands Service Providers' Market for Network-Based VPN Services to DSL Access as well as to Private Line and Dial-Access.Business Editors REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000 Service Providers Can Tap Enterprise, Branch Office, Small and Mid-Sized Business, and Telecommuter A person who telecommutes. See telecommuting. Markets for Network-Based 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 CoSine Communications, the leading provider of managed, network-based IP Service Delivery Platforms, announced today that its IPSX 9000(TM) Service Processing Switch now enables Service Providers (SPs) to offer a comprehensive array of Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to business 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 (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 ) subscribers in addition to those using dial-up, frame-relay, and dedicated access methods supported by the switch today. Support for DSL access allows SPs to expand their customer base for VPN and other high-margin IP services beyond enterprises and telecommuters to include small and mid-sized businesses in the fast-growing DSL marketplace. Today more than 600,000 subscribers in the US enjoy DSL access, while the servable market for DSL access can reach 60 million users, according to industry-watcher DSL Prime (www.dslprime.com). The CoSine platform marries scalable computing hardware with an open software architecture to enable Service Providers to support a wide range of third-party and CoSine-originated features and services to meet the varied application needs of their target audiences. Today CoSine's market-leading suite of managed network-based VPN services includes the Network Associates Gauntlet Firewall; site-to-site IPSec tunneling (virtual leased line Virtual Leased Line (VLL) is a way to provide Ethernet based point to point communication over IP/MPLS networks. In the industry, the technology is also referred to as Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) or EoMPLS (Ethernet over MPLS). ); IPSec dial tunnel termination; Virtual Routing with support for the Border Gateway Protocol Border Gateway Protocol - (BGP) An Exterior Gateway Protocol defined in RFC 1267 and RFC 1268. Its design is based on experience gained with Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), as defined in STD 18, RFC 904 and EGP usage in the NSFNet backbone, as described in RFCs 1092 and 1093. (BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). 4), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) A routing protocol that determines the best path for routing IP traffic over a TCP/IP network based on distance between nodes and several quality parameters. ), and Routing Information Protocol See RIP. 1. (networking) Routing Information Protocol - (RIP) A distance vector, as opposed to link state, routing protocol. RIP is an Internet standard Interior Gateway Protocol defined in STD 34, RFC 1058 and updated by RFC 1388. (RIP); Frame Relay to IPSec interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. ; and Frame Relay over IPSec. The flexible CoSine platform allows SPs to tailor service packages to the individual needs of each customer and to add new services in response to customer demand--without rolling a truck. SPs can provision and deliver all CoSine services from the network edge. &uot;Once again we are demonstrating the versatility of the open architecture of CoSine's IP Service Delivery Platform,&uot; said Dean Hamilton, CoSine president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . &uot;Our ability to incrementally add service functionality such as this support for DSL VPNs, without a forklift upgrade, shows the flexibility and value of our next-generation architecture.&uot; Secure, High-Performance Connectivity Unlike first-generation subscriber management systems, the IPSX 9000 provides up to 100 RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. CPUs and/or 100 dedicated encryption processors to deliver these high-value services to tens of thousands of subscriber networks. The CoSine platform aggregates traffic from multiple DSL Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs) and can support 100,000 simultaneous DSL sessions without compromising application performance. By adding VPN support to DSL access services, SPs can now offer DSL subscribers high-value security services to protect their LANs from hackers that exploit DSL's &uot;always-on&uot; nature. For enterprises that take advantage of a variety of connectivity methods to support intranet, extranet, and Internet access applications, SPs can use the CoSine platform to distribute VPN policy support uniformly across all sites, and manage it from a central location on their network. &uot;But access alone is just the first step to the much larger market for value-added services,&uot; said William A. Flanagan, program director at The Burton Group (Sterling, VA). &uot;SPs who can satisfy customer needs quickly, delivering business-critical services such as VPNs, should reduce the customer churn that results when lower prices draw users from one commodity vendor to another. The CoSine platform is designed to fit a business plan where SPs capitalize on opportunities for higher-margin customized services.&uot; Pricing and Availability The North American list price for the DSL subscriber aggregation and management capability is $15,000 per system and will be generally available in the second quarter of this year. About CoSine Communications Founded in 1997 and based in Redwood City, Calif., CoSine Communications is the leading developer of managed IP service delivery platforms for Business IP Service Providers who are struggling to create complex, value-added Public Networks with today's limited technology. The CoSine solution enables CLECs and interexchange carriers to quickly and reliably turn up value-added services to their wholesale and retail subscribers. CoSine's founders, executive management and engineering teams include industry veterans who have helped to shape the infrastructure and services of today's Internet at such leading companies as Ascend Communications, Bay Networks and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. . CoSine's engineering team is experienced in telecommunications, network and service management, software development and design, routing, high-performance parallel processing, load balancing and carrier-class switching. CoSine is privately owned and financed through strategic investors and venture capital. To date the company has raised $92.5 million from the following investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Communications Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners, Lucent Venture Partners, BCE BCE abbr. 1. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 2. Bachelor of Civil Engineering BCE Abbreviation for before the Common Era. Capital Inc., Anschutz Investments and Wilson Investors, Technology Crossover Ventures, Charter Growth Capital, Capital Research Company, Tudor Investment Corporation, Amerindo Investment Advisors, Telesoft Partners, Goldman Sachs, Hambrecht &Quist, AT& Ventures, Rader Reinfrank &Co. For more information about CoSine Communications, visit the company's Web site at www.cosinecom.com, or contact Suzanne Panoplos at 8774COSINE. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion