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Riverstone Networks Demonstrates Lead in Hardware-Based Metro MPLS Implementation
Demonstration Shows Core Router Interoperability, Broad Range of Hardware-Based MPLS Features
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2001-- Riverstone Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq:RSTN - news) a leader in service creation infrastructure for metropolitan area networks, established its early leadership in the hardware implementation of metro Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) features and demonstrated core router MPLS interoperability at the InteropNet Labs (iLABs) in Las Vegas. At the demonstration, Riverstone presented hardware versions of several Layer-2 tunneling technologies and again established core router MPLS signaling interoperability. These capabilities are critical to the metro MPLS-VPN model and will help service providers use Riverstone's products to design and sell virtual leased line and transparent LAN services in the metro.
``The MPLS capabilities that Riverstone exhibited at iLABs were extremely impressive,'' said Bill Jensen, senior network engineer at the University of Wisconsin and lead architect of the iLABS MPLS testing. ``Riverstone successfully displayed hardware-based Layer-2 tunneling technologies in a multivendor environment, and thereby made a substantial contribution to the interoperability demonstration.''
The iLABS at N+I is an important and recognized forum for demonstrating interoperability between network equipment. At the show, Riverstone's RS metro routers ran MPLS over a new line of programmable MPLS-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and successfully completed three classes of interoperability demonstration:
RSVP-TE. Riverstone showed LSP creation with Juniper and Cisco core routers and other edge routers, using, inter alia, explicit route object, loose and strict modes, CSPF and no-CSPF, admin-group, and bandwidth reservation. This demonstration included the successful setup and tear down of 1,000 LSPs with the Sprient/Adtech MPLS tester, along with the creation of an end-to-end Layer-3 RSVP LSP with a Juniper core router, to demonstrate wire-speed label switching.
LDP over LDP Martini-Draft Layer-2 Tunneling. This demonstrated full LDP interoperability with core routers, and included the creation of a LDP over LDP layer-2 tunnel through a Juniper core router, and passing bi-directional traffic generated by an IXIA tester.
OSPF-TE. Riverstone demonstrated OSPF-TE interoperability with Juniper and Cisco core routers.
``We are very pleased to learn that our MPLS development effort is paying off in terms of technological leadership,'' said Romulus Pereira, president and CEO of Riverstone Networks. ``We appreciate iLABs' contribution to the promotion of interoperability, which is particularly important given the evolving nature of MPLS standards. I reiterate that MPLS and tunneling technologies remain central to our vision of metro area service creation.''
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