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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications (ASND)

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Dec 8 3:59 PM EST

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To: The Phoenix who wrote (52303)	8/19/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: djane	of 61433

Frontier' network will bring Cisco and Ascend together after the carrier tapped the optical internetworking competitors to provide equipment for different aspects of Frontier's Optronics fiber-optic network. The most recent announcement saw the company's Frontier GlobalCenter data and Internet services organization select Cisco as the supplier of routing hardware to support the company's planned coast-to-coast OC-48c IP backbone. The deal will be worth $20 million to Cisco, which will supply its 12000 Gigabit Switch Routers and 7500 series routers. Frontier GlobalCenter will operate at 2.4 Gbits/sec on a single DWDM channel; its total capacity will be scaleable to over 38.4 Gbits/sec on a single fiber strand. The backbone is expected to be completed in the first quarter of next year. The award comes on the heels of an earlier announcement that Frontier had chosen Ascend to supply its GX 550 ATM core switch for the ATM portion of the carrier's fiber-optic network. Frontier officials indicate to Lightwave that the equipment from the two competitors will be expected to operate with each other. Ascend will use Cimaron Communication's OC-12 chip in future WAN products. The SONET chip, dubbed NILE, is still under development. However, it is expected to support multiple applications and map ATM cells over SONET. The chip will integrate Cimaron's SONET, ATM, and DS3 cores in a single chip. This will facilitate the development of systems that will transport and multiplex DS3-framed ATM traffic over SONET. broadband-guide.com Back to the This Week in Fiber Index This Week in Fiber Week of August 14 cCopyright 1995-1998 PennWell Media Online LLC This page was updated on 18-Aug-98.

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