From Telecommunications Online, a must-read on ATM and DSL:
telecommagazine.com
From NN's website, a new lead story:
newbridge.com
"The Right Technology for the Job?
Marrying IP, ATM and SONET"
By: Michael Vent and Joe Culp . . .
And another on IXC:
newbridge.com
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. . . Using the 36170 in the IXC network has enabled us to become a major data services player, allowing us to compete on a tier one level with companies like AT&T, WorldCom and Sprint. The platform has provided us with the features and capabilities necessary to provide network services and network managed services to our customers.?
The flexibility of the ATM-based multiservice platform has also helped IXC move rapidly and cost-effectively to market with its latest Internet services offering. The Gemini 2000 network is designed to run IP over IXC?s synchronous optical network (SONET) standard optical core. The company relies on its ATM-based Newbridge switches to collect and carry traffic into the network?s core hubs. As a technology, ATM provides the pre-deterministic quality of service and policy features imperative to establishing guaranteed service level agreements (SLAs). Together the three technologies work well to ensure high speed, high quality Internet service delivery.
Enabling a Graceful Migration
?The advantage the Newbridge technology brings to Gemini 2000 is it allows our customers to migrate from one application to another very gracefully. If they have frame they can go to ATM and they can go to IP. It also does it with a minimum of cost because the switch is dynamic enough to make that change,? said Dominick DeAngelo, IXC?s Senior Vice President, Marketing Data Products and Services.
?Newbridge plays a very critical role,? added DeAngelo. ?If you look at the design that has taken place prior to Gemini 2000, everybody has tried to put the quality of service ? the management of the bandwidth ? in the core of the network and that has not really worked. It has problems. In using the capability of the 36170 Multiservices Switch, we are pushing intelligence to the edge and we are grooming the customer at the edge. The quality of service is at the edge of the network, across the network to the far end. Newbridge is the crux of us doing that. . . . ?
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