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STENTOR ALLIANCE SELECTS MAINSTREETXPRESS 48020 MULTINETWORK SERVICE CONTROLLER FOR NATIONAL BACKBONE NETWORK BASED ON SIEMENS/NEWBRIDGE ATM PLATFORM
End-to-end PVC monitoring, customer viewing capability and auto rerouting features key
KANATA, Ont., Oct. 23 /CNW/ - Stentor, an alliance of Canada's leading telecommunications service providers, has selected the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress(TM) 48020 MultiNetwork Service Controller (MNSC) to manage Canada's nationwide asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) backbone network built upon the industry-leading MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch. The national ATM backbone network will deliver a comprehensive and growing range of services to customers from a single, broadband core network.
The MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC can be used by individual service providers to consolidate the management of multiple networks into a common administration, or by multiple service providers to manage services which span multiple network or service provider boundaries. By deploying the MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC, service provider consortia such as the Stentor Alliance, can provide end-to-end managed virtual private network (VPN) service and offer a complete portfolio of fully managed advanced communications services such as frame relay, ATM, local area network (LAN) interconnect, premium video, advanced private line and Internet Protocol (IP) services.
Stentor Canadian Network Management (SCNM) will use the MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC to enable and monitor end-to-end connections for customers with nationwide operations. The SCNM Service Assurance Group will monitor Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) status from end-to-end, enabling immediate problem reporting and response to Stentor Alliance customers.
Customers will be able to view their networks via a secure workstation connection to the network. Overall reliability and robustness of national services will be enhanced with the use of MainStreetXpress 48020 automatic rerouting around failed links. Stentor customers will also benefit from local support for their national networking needs because each Stentor company can view its customers' networks nationwide and thereby act as the prime point of contact for the customer.
''Stentor's National Area Network is one of the world's first and most extensive multiple service provider ATM networks. The MainStreetXpress 48020 MultiNetwork Service Controller system strengthens our ability to provide seamless and consistent services to all our customers across the country,'' said Tom Hope, President, Stentor Canadian Network Management.
''The consolidation of the management of multiple networks enables service providers to reduce operating costs and ensure that network resources are used efficiently,'' said Al Hawtin, Vice President, Network and Service Management, Newbridge Networks. ''Using the MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC to provide a common service management structure simplifies the management task, reducing time spent managing, as well as time spent training operations staff and system administrators. Since the MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC uses the same terminology and graphical user interface (GUI) as the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, experienced operators and network managers require only minimal orientation to the MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC.''
The MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC enables each partner in a consortium to act as the single point of contact for its customers. It provides each partner with secure access to up-to-the-minute configuration and performance information for its customers' VPNs, while at the same time ensuring that each service provider retains full control over its own network resources. This co-operative approach with interoperable service management systems helps service providers to most effectively meet the needs of their customers.
The MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC was announced by Siemens and Newbridge at SuperComm in June 1997, and is currently installed in service provider networks. In the United States, IXC Communications, a leading supplier of IP networking and long distance services, purchased the MainStreetXpress CSM Service Director and the MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC to enhance its broadband services network. The MainStreetXpress 48020 MNSC has also been selected by the Provincial Telephone Authority of Guangdong, one of the most prosperous provinces in the People's Republic of China.
The Stentor Alliance (http//:www.stentor.ca) works with customers across Canada to economically deliver leading-edge local, national, and international telecommunications services. These companies manage the world's longest fiber-optic, SONET and ATM-based networks. The members of the Alliance are: BC TEL, Bell Canada, Island Tel, Manitoba Telecom Services Inc., MT&T, NBTel, NewTel Communications, NorthwestTel, Qu‚bec T‚l‚phone, SaskTel and TELUS Communications Inc.
The Public Communication Networks Group of Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) and Newbridge Networks (Kanata, Canada), two of the world leaders in ATM, formed a strategic networking alliance in 1996 to provide carriers worldwide with the most comprehensive and advanced ATM solution set. With this agreement, the two companies have unified their ATM product lines under the MainStreetXpress brand and assembled the industry's most extensive ATM research and development operation -- more than 1,700 engineers in five countries. In North America, Siemens serves the public network through its subsidiary, Siemens Telecom Networks (Boca Raton, Fla.).
Newbridge Networks (http://www.newbridge.com) is a global leader in ATM, frame relay and advanced private line networking systems, according to independent research. The company designs, manufactures, markets and services a comprehensive family of networking products and systems that delivers the power of multimedia communications solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Newbridge products are the choice of an expanding range of customers which includes the world's 200 largest telecommunications service providers, and over 10,000 corporations and government organisations. The company has facilities in Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Newbridge Networks Corporation is a public company whose common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NN) in the United States and on The Toronto Stock Exchange (NNC) in Canada. |
