Tiara Expands PSINet's Dedicated Access Service
With Multi-link Frame Relay
Tiara 1400 Access Concentrator and Tiara 7030 Frame Switch Deliver
Pioneering Service to Customers in Major Cities
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000-- Extending its leadership in providing
real-world multimegabit access solutions, Tiara Networks today announced that PSINet, the
Internet Super Carrier, is rolling out Tiara 7030 Frame Switches and Tiara 1400 Multimegabit
Access Concentrators to provide multimegabit Internet service for its business customers. This is the first commercial rollout of the
Multi-Link Frame Relay (MFR) standard for PSINet's Multimegabit Dedicated Access service.
By incorporating the MFR standard into its service, PSINet can easily and cost effectively aggregate bandwidth from multiple T1
lines and quickly deliver it to customers eager for high-speed, multimegabit access. The installation of Tiara's advanced
MFR-based solutions in major cities across North America, enables PSINet to offer its customers from 3 to 12 megabits of
scalable, reliable access bandwidth over its Frame Relay network.
Tiara's 7030 Frame Switch also allows PSINet to deploy a distributed Point-of-Presence (POP) architecture that reduces its costs
by effectively increasing the performance of its POPs. By offloading traffic aggregation and physical WAN interface functions
from POP routers to the less expensive Frame Switches, PSINet can scale traffic in its POPs at a lower cost while allowing its
routers to devote more of their performance to primary routing tasks.
``Satisfying the demand for greater-than-T1 access for our business customers is a major strategic direction for PSINet,'' said
Frank Troccoli, director of product management for PSINet. ``Tiara's cost-effective POP aggregation and customer premises
solutions give us the robustness, flexibility, and reliability we need to ensure customer satisfaction as we deliver multimegabit
Internet service.''
``With the decision to roll out multimegabit Internet service, PSINet has demonstrated its leadership in offering scalable broadband
access to its business customers,'' said Kash Mitra, vice president of marketing for Tiara Networks. ``Tiara's distributed
networking solutions allow PSINet to reliably deliver specific bandwidth to each customer site while providing high levels of
integration to reduce floor space requirements both at the customer premises and in the points of presence.''
Using Tiara 1400 Access Concentrators at customer premises and 7030 Frame Switches at its POPs, PSINet gains easier
provisioning and better control over bandwidth. While its previous multimegabit service solution required a router for assigning
bandwidth to specific customers, Tiara's equipment allows PSINet to specifically define service levels for each customer site using
the MFR protocol. The MFR protocol implemented in Tiara's 1400 and 7030 allows PSINet to switch aggregated T1 traffic to
different sites without a router, essentially providing the traffic control of a router without the associated expense and complexity.
In addition, the Tiara solution saves space and cost by replacing separate router and WAN access devices at each customer
location with a single Tiara 1400. PSINet will use Tiara's solutions to deploy new multimegabit business service as well as to
replace existing equipment at its current customer sites and POPs. The initial rollout will take place in major cities such as New
York; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Detroit; Miami; Portland; and Houston and will continue in other major North American
cities before expanding into Europe (aggregating E1 service) and the rest of the world.
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