I can't imagine that happening but since you seem intent on pursuing this line of thought, I suggest you call the company. 613-599-3600. You're the only person I've heard ask these questions, including analysts.
Now, back to SBC's announcements, compare with NN's 350 solutions:
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Taking ATM to the Customer Edge
Newbridge 350 IVSN Leads the Industry in Multiservice, Multi-Access Solutions
Service providers face a perennial challenge -- how to cost-effectively extend their reach and distribute all the new services customers want in the shortest time possible, while ensuring a maximum return on investment.
The Newbridge 350 Integrated Versatile Services Node (IVSN) is the first in the Company's series of new access platforms to address that challenge. Whether standalone or networked with the MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch, the Newbridge 350 IVSN will keep service providers well out front in the supply of multiservice access services.
The Newbridge 350 IVSN is the industry's first multiservice ATM-based access node that allows service providers to support both current voice and data services, as well as new and future IP-based services, via a mix of narrowband and broadband access solutions. This is good news for service providers striving to reduce total cost of ownership and meet customers' requirements for multiple services support.
Growing Revenue Streams Today, data services consume about 50 percent of service provider bandwidth capacity, yet account for only 12 percent of revenue, while telephony services reap revenues of more than 80 percent. By 2004 it is expected that advanced IP services will account for 28 percent of service provider revenues, while voice services will amount to about 60 percent. Given these estimates, there is no question that service providers will look to vendors for solutions that will allow them to grow their data, IP and voice revenue streams in the most cost-effective way possible.
Service providers worldwide are wrestling with the challenge of deciding which access solution to utilize for business and residential broadband access. Broadband copper, wireless, hybrid fiber coax cable or optical?
The Newbridge answer is -- all of the above. The Company's multi-access strategy enables service providers to mix and match access technologies to meet their business requirements. For example, a service provider could use broadband copper access for xDSL services in one part of its focus area and wireless or fiber access in another area.
Streamlined Architecture Newbridge solutions provide the advantages of complete end-to-end network and service management, common network architecture with the 350 IVSN, and a comprehensive strategy for operations such as training, sparing and inventory management. The streamlined architecture and management reduces the total cost of ownership dramatically and greatly improves time to market for new services.
Service providers can utilize the Newbridge 350 IVSN as:
a broadband (LMDS/MMDS) wireless base station
a next-generation advanced digital subscriber loop access multiplexer a digital loop carrier solution a passive optical networking terminal for very high speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) a fiber-to-the-customer solution The common architecture allows service providers to combine many access technologies -- including asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), single pair symmetric services, plain old telephony service, and T1/E1 -- so services can be offered from the same point of presence. The integral digital cross-connect, switching and multiplexing of streams ensure that the capacity required to connect back to the core is minimized, thus reducing the high cost of interconnection bandwidth.
Newbridge has designed the 350 IVSN to enable service providers to cost-effectively expand their service footprint, and distribute the services customers want at the lowest marginal cost per user in the shortest possible time.
Multiservice Approach The result is a product that supports voice, data and IP services from a single platform, averts purchases of multiple elements by service providers, and provides a cost- effective, reliable and streamlined network solution. Further, this multiservice approach allows service providers to rapidly turn up new services, as they need only add a new interface card to extend the capabilities of their investment in the Newbridge 350 IVSN. Also, should a service provider find that a particular service is not as profitable as another, the interface card can easily be swapped for one that provides the more profitable service, thereby improving the business case.
Situated at the edge of the access network, the Newbridge 350 IVSN extends the benefits of ATM to deliver guaranteed levels of quality for voice, data, video and IP services. This enables carriers to better differentiate themselves by offering customers a choice of multiple classes of service at different prices. The 350 IVSN, being broadband-based, also delivers integral traffic management, signaling and routing to reduce processing overhead at the network core.
The significant reduction in total cost of ownership and improved time to profitability enables carriers to quickly deploy the new generation services that will establish them as full service providers. In fact, the Newbridge 350 IVSN is aimed at established and new generation service providers seeking to become a "one-stop shop" for all services.
The Newbridge 350 IVSN leverages the strengths of products and solutions from across the Newbridge portfolio. By adding an Internetworking Services Card (ISC) from the Newbridge Versatile IP portfolio of advanced IP solutions, for example, service providers are able to deliver revenue-generating, quality of service IP-based offerings such as IP virtual private networks, switched routing, and multimedia services via copper with 3dSL
"The multiservice nature of ATM clearly allows alternate carriers, such as GST, the ability to deploy a single platform as we expand our coverage. Newbridge is addressing this opportunity with the integration offered by the 350 IVSN platform, which further adds capabilities for different last mile technologies and multiservice in one solution. It will be products like this that integrated communications providers like GST Telecommunications will use for efficient expansion of networks into new markets."
-- Steve Hensley, Vice President of Engineering, GST Telecommunications
"As a full service carrier offering a complete range of voice, data and video products, Cable & Wireless Optus is pleased to see the continuing commitment of Newbridge to the development of its ATM platform via the 350 IVSN, which supports multiple forms of access media. It is an excellent example of the type of technology solutions that will enable carriers such as Cable & Wireless Optus to provide integrated customer solutions for both current and emerging services."
Bill Hope
Chief Technical Officer,
Cable & Wireless Optus
Additional Benefits for Service Providers
The Newbridge 350 IVSN enables service providers to cost-effectively and rapidly expand their service footprint. The node:
can be quickly installed in streetside cabinets, digital loop carrier pedestals and in small remote wireless base stations enables alternate service providers to establish connections within incumbent central offices supports all existing MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch interface cards scales from a single shelf system to an extremely high density, high fan-out solution when networked with the 36170 switch family boasts a 1.6 Gb/s backplane with a range of aggregate interfaces from T1/E1 to STM-16/OC-48 in the vision enables active optical, passive optical or wireless connections is fully network-managed through the family of network and service management products, including the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager |
