Norlight Deploys Cisco IP+ATM Network for Cost-Effective Delivery of Advanced IP Services.Business Editors & Technology Editors BROOKFIELD, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 Norlight Receives Cisco Powered Network Designation for Value-Added Data and Voice Services Norlight Telecommunications, Inc., a leading regional provider of integrated communications services, today announced that it is building a robust, fault-tolerant IP+ATM network backbone using industry-leading technology and solutions from 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 next-generation infrastructure will provide carrier-class reliability, scalability and quality of service (QoS), enabling Norlight to meet its business customers' growing demand for highly-advanced, bandwidth intensive, value-added data and voice services. Norlight's frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. , ATM, and IP services will be based on an end-to-end Cisco infrastructure and have therefore received the Cisco Powered Network designation. Norlight expects to offer services over the new network by year's end, following the first phase of deployment of Cisco MGX MGX Montenegro Airlines, Yugoslavia (ICAO code) MGX Media Gateways (TM) 8850 and Cisco BPX BPX Business Process Expert BPX Business Process eXcellence (Delphi Group event) BPX Burning Plasma Experiment BPX British Petroleum Exploration BPX Broadband Packet Exchange BPX Bus Parcel Express (Canada) (R) 8650 IP+ATM wide-area switches throughout its network. Utilizing 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. (MultiProtocol Label Switching (networking) Multiprotocol Label Switching - (MPLS) A packet switching protocol developed by the IETF. Initially developed to improve switching speed, other benefits are now seen as being more important. ), a standard pioneered by Cisco, Cisco's IP+ATM multiservice switches offer the complete range of Cisco IOS Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and all current Cisco network switches. IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking and telecommunications functions tightly integrated with a (TM) IP services over today's transport connections such as ATM, frame relay and private lines. Cisco's unique solution combines MPLS with industry-standard routing protocols to provide a foundation for the delivery of value-added services. The high scalability of these platforms will enable Norlight to keep up with the bandwidth needs of its business and regional 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. customers and to take advantage of new revenue-generating services such as voice over IP (VoIP), virtual private networks (VPNs) and other managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality . "Cisco was the clear choice for making this evolution from frame relay services to a New World IP-enabled network," said Mike Ulicki, vice president and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. for Norlight Telecommunications. "Cisco's technology lets Norlight roll out IP services based on the MPLS standard with unprecedented time to market. And, as our customers continue to demand applications that require greater increments of bandwidth, Cisco's platforms enable us to cost-effectively scale to meet that demand without continuous infrastructure investment." The award-winning Cisco MGX 8850 wide-area IP+ATM switch will aggregate Norlight's IP and frame relay traffic for the Cisco BPX switches, enabling Norlight to run IP, ATM, and frame relay at port speeds ranging from 64 kbps to OC-48 over a single, integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. . The Cisco BPX 8650 wide-area MPLS switch is the first ATM WAN switch in production with a carrier-class implementation of MPLS. Cisco's implementation is unique in its ability to IP-enable access services, delivering any-to-any connectivity directly over frame relay, ATM and other transport services The collective functions of layers 1 through 4 of the OSI model. . "Norlight understands the competitive advantages of building a New World network around a Cisco IP+ATM foundation," said Rob Redford, director of marketing for the Cisco Multiservice Switching Business Unit. "The IP capabilities of this new network will enable Norlight to design and deliver value-added, managed services that go beyond basic transport services, cater specifically to their customers' needs and pave the way to new revenue and growth for Norlight." The Cisco Powered Network designation signals to Norlight's customers that Norlight is delivering its advanced IP services over reliable, high-performance and secure Cisco networking infrastructure. As a Cisco Powered Network member, Norlight will participate in joint marketing and technology sharing activities with Cisco. About Norlight Telecommunications Norlight Telecommunications, Inc. is a full-service telecommunications provider of high quality, integrated communications solutions, and has been serving its business customers for 28 years. Norlight's Guardians of Data are headquartered in Brookfield, WI. In addition to Norlight's Brookfield headquarters, the company has offices in Madison and Green Bay, WI, Chicago, IL, Lansing and Grand Rapids, MI, and Duluth and Minneapolis, MN. Norlight is a subsidiary of Journal Communications, Inc., an employee-owned communications company since 1937, which has operations in television and radio broadcasting, newspaper publishing, direct marketing, printing and telecommunications. Journal Communications employs over 7000 people worldwide. For more information, go to www.norlight.com. |
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