Tellium Brings Interoperability Between the IP and Optical Layers
OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999--Tellium, Inc., the leading provider of optical switches, announced today the coupling of Tellium's open standards-based StarNet protocol to the Internet Protocol (IP).
StarNet provides signaling algorithms that bridge IP communications to the optical networking environment to create effective high speed service delivery and restoration.
``StarNet represents the first step toward bringing true interoperability between IP and the optical layer,' said Richard Barcus, president, Tellium. ``We are creating the bridge between IP and the optical layer that has never existed before and will help carriers reduce costs and deliver quality data services. For example, blocked traffic in today's overburdened IP networks either is resent or thrown away. StarNet allows routers to request additional capacity from the optical layer to remove the congestion.'
In particular, StarNet bridges open Internet protocols Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) based routing, and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) based signaling to the optical environment.
With the combination of OSPF, and MPLS StarNet will make the optical layer act like a dynamic Internet with the quality of service benefits only available in switched networks today. Using StarNet, carriers will be able to offer optical services with competitive Optical Service Level Agreements (OSLAs) backed by millisecond re-routing, protection and restoration abilities of StarNet.
``Up to this point the optical layer has struggled to serve the exploding demand created by data services. Service delivery is slow and carriers are spending too much money on old architectures. We are contracted to deliver this state of the art management scheme to our customers next year,' said Nick DeVito, director of marketing and product management at Tellium. ``StarNet coupled with our Aurora Optical Switches will bring true flexibility and scalability to data networks. In short, we will put `the 'Net' into Optical Networking.'
About Tellium
Tellium designs and manufactures networking products that create intelligent optical networks. These products are utilized by large communications companies
because today's public networks are struggling to support the explosion of bandwidth requirements for data services.
Tellium products create a scalable optical network enabling reliable, fast, low cost delivery of data services. Tellium's Aurora 32 Optical Switch was the first-to-market in the telecommunications industry.
Aurora 32 with the larger Aurora 512, StarNet Restoration Software and the Gemini Element Management System are the cornerstone network elements of scalable, flexible optical networks. More information about Tellium can be found at tellium.com. |
