Pat,if you reading announcment for Frontier it sonds like only ASND switch can do it.NN's 36170 can do the same , but service provider has to pay for it.The biger Q is :can they fill this pipeline?
Nobody is buying car base on max. speed.
regards
Zbyslaw
Company Press Release
Frontier Deploys Fastest ATM Network in Industry
ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1998--Frontier Communications
continues to set the pace of innovation in the communications industry by deploying the fastest Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM) network available today.
Using switches purchased from Ascend Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASND - news), Frontier is transmitting its ATM
traffic at 2.5 Gigabits per second (Gbps) directly over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) equipment. That's
16 times faster than the typical ATM technology currently in use.
''This isn't something we're promising to do in the future -- we're doing it now. The ATM layer of the Frontier Optronics
Network(SM) is already lit and carrying traffic at incredible speeds,'' said Michael Coghill, Frontier's vice president of
network operations. ''Let me try to put the impact of this announcement into perspective with an analogy. If you think of
traditional networks moving at 65 miles per hour, Frontier's ATM highway raises the speed limit to 3,000 miles per hour.
Thanks to Frontier, network congestion may well become a thing of the past.''
''Ascend is pleased to partner with such an innovative service provider as Frontier,'' said Thomas DeCanio, vice president
of Ascend's product marketing core switching division. ''By connecting Ascend GX 550 ATM switches directly to DWDM
at OC-48/STM-16 speeds, thereby eliminating an entire layer of traditional transmission equipment, Frontier is deploying the
most efficient network architecture possible at the fastest ATM speeds available.''
The Frontier Optronics Network already moves data at OC-48 rates (2.5 Gbps) over its coast-to-coast Internet Protocol
(IP) network layer. Frontier has also created a ''network express lane,'' deploying Hyper-Dense Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (HDWDM) equipment in its top 20 markets. HDWDM can move traffic at speeds of 1.28 terabits (trillions) of
data per second on a single fiber strand. This ability to transmit trillions of bits of data, instead of the billions carried by
conventional optical technology, makes the Frontier Optronics Network the fastest in the world.
About Frontier Communications
Frontier Communications, a unit of Frontier Corporation (NYSE:FRO - news), is one of the leading providers of integrated
communications solutions -- including Internet, IP and data applications, long distance, local telephone and wireless -- to
business customers nationwide. The self-healing Frontier Optronics Network(SM) provides customers with faster
transmission speeds, greater bandwidth capacity and unrivaled reliability. For more information, visit the Frontier web site at
www.frontiercorp.com.
You can receive a faxed copy of any Frontier Corporation press release dating back to November 1997, free of charge, 24
hours a day by calling 1-800-448-8533. An automated system will provide you with instructions.
Contact:
Frontier Communications
Michele D. Sadwick
716-777-6021
E-mail: msadwick@frontiercorp.com
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