Data Connection ships DC-OSPF, first in its IP Routing protocol software family.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 High quality, fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. IP routing to complement its industry leading DC-MPLS product for both packet and optical applications Data Connection Limited (DCL (1) (Digital Command Language) Digital's standard command language for the VMS operating system on its VAX series. (2) (Data Compression L ), the leading supplier of high quality network protocol software, today shipped the initial release of DC-OSPF on schedule to several customers. The initial release of DC-OSPF includes a host of functions for next generation networks such as traffic engineering, constrained routing (CSPF CSPF Constrained Shortest Path First (IEEE) CSPF Cisco Secure PIX Firewall CSPF Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation CSPF Constraint Shortest Path First CSPF California State Prison Folsom ), high levels of scalability (through distribution) and resilience. Additional releases are planned to further extend DC-OSPF, as well as to expand the IP routing suite to include DC-BGP and DC-ISIS. "Traditional IP routing is evolving rapidly, for example for traffic engineering, optical networks, VPNs and the inter-carrier exchange of routing metrics beyond simple reachability", stated Ben Miller, General Manager of DCL's 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. , IP Routing and ATM business unit. "Our IP routing protocol A formula used by routers to determine the appropriate path onto which data should be forwarded. The routing protocol also specifies how routers report changes and share information with the other routers in the network that they can reach. suite is ideal for use in both cutting edge devices and traditional routers." DC-OSPF, in common with all DCL's networking protocol products has been developed 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. DCL's highly rigorous processes, greatly reducing the time to market and engineering effort required for customers building truly carrier-class network devices. It operates within DCL's unique "N-BASE" environment, which is shared by DCL's other network protocol software. The N-BASE has been used in many leading devices over the past 10 years that have proven its portability, its scalability, its performance as well as the very highest levels of resilience and availability demanded by the leading carriers. "What many of our customers are seeking is a control plane for their networking devices that provides the very highest levels of performance and availability combined with the flexibility to include their own innovations", added Ben Miller. "For example, a combination of DC-OSPF, DC-BGP, DC-MPLS and DC-ATM provides the core of the control plane for a richly featured packet switched device. Similarly a combination of DC-OSPF, DC-MPLS and DC-LMP provides the bulk of an optical control plane." About Data Connection Limited Data Connection Limited (DCL) is the leading independent developer and supplier of IP Routing, MPLS, ATM, SIP, MGCP/Megaco, SCTP (1) (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) An alternative to TCP that supports multiple transmission paths. Designed to facilitate SS7 signaling over TCP/IP, SCTP supports multiple IP addresses from the same host (multihomed host) and treats the data , Conferencing, Unified Messaging, Directory and SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. portable products. Customers include CIENA, Cisco, Corvis, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp., Lucent, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , Siemens, Sun and Sycamore. Its MetaSwitch division develops and manufactures a carrier-class, next-generation Class 5 switch for telecommunications service providers. Data Connection is headquartered in London UK, with US offices in Reston, VA and Alameda, CA. It was founded in 1981 and is privately held. During each of the past 20 years its profits have exceeded 20% of revenue. Last year sales exceeded $35M, of which 90% were outside the UK, mostly in the US. In 1999 the company received its second Queen's Award for outstanding export performance. For information, contact Ben Miller by email at bmm@dataconnection.com, phone +44 20 8366 1177, or visit our Web site at www.dataconnection.com. Data Connection is a trademark of Data Connection Limited and Data Connection Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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