Verizon Selects Cisco 12000 Series Routers for National IP VPN Network.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2003 Cisco Delivers a Single Routing Platform for Both High-Speed Core Internetworking and Edge Services for Enterprise Advance Initiative 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. (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) today announced that Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications, Inc. , Inc., one of the world's leading providers of high-growth communications services, will utilize the Cisco 12000 Series Router platform in its national IP 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. network. The Cisco 12000 Series Router will be part of Verizon's expanded network to deliver Layer 3 Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching (networking) label switching - A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. (IP/MPLS IP/MPLS Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Switching ) Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to Verizon's enterprise customers. With support for multiple classes of service, Cisco'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. technology will provide Verizon with an efficient and robust solution for the industry's newest applications driven by IP internetworking such as Transparent LAN Services and Voice-over-IP (VoIP). The Cisco 12000 Series platform will be deployed as Verizon's Local Access Transport Area (LATA) core router A router that resides within the middle or backbone of the network rather than at its periphery. The routers that make up the backbone of the Internet are core routers. See edge router and WAN router. as well as one of the service edge router platforms for Verizon's Enterprise Advance initiative. The Cisco 12000 Series platform provides service providers like Verizon with a scalable and reliable solution for high-speed core internetworking that supports revenue generating edge services. Verizon's Enterprise Advance initiative, launched by the company last November, expands Verizon's services in the Enterprise market by connecting existing regional networks across the country via an IP backbone while enhancing core capabilities. These capabilities include packet, optical and transparent LAN services as well as IP services such as VoIP and IP VPNs. By deploying the Cisco IP Services Engine (ISE Ise (ē`sā), city (1990 pop. 104,164), Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. It is one of the foremost religious centers of Shinto, the site of the shrines of Ise. ) technology, currently available on edge line cards for the Cisco 12000 Series routers, Verizon will be able to offer MPLS-based VPN services for customers with the line-rate performance required for the next evolution of IP networks. These services allow customers "any to any" connectivity, saving Enterprises the expense of migrating all their offices to the same technology platform. Enterprise customers will also be able to launch IP-based business applications and establish quality-of-service (QoS) priorities for traffic within an IP VPN network. "Cisco is committed to working closely with our service provider customers to help them successfully deploy IP/MPLS technologies in the core and edge of their networks. We listened to our customers and have accordingly invested heavily in developing platforms that are scalable, feature rich and high performance," said Mike Volpi, senior vice president of the Routing Technology Group at Cisco Systems. "Verizon's aggressive approach toward MPLS and IP networking make it a great match for the Cisco 12000 Series routers." About the Cisco 12000 Series IP Services Engine The Cisco 12000 Series IP Services Engine (ISE) is a powerful technology that combines the hardware performance of ASICs with the flexibility of software to deliver multiple, robust network edge features while maintaining predictable, line-rate performance. For more information about Cisco 12000 Series routers, please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/12000. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Information on Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com. Cisco, Cisco Systems, and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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