To: Bo Didley who wrote (46079 ) 6/23/1999 4:43:00 PM From: Bo Didley Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 120523
RBAK - company of the future - customer list - Broadband Redback Networks is a leading provider of advanced networking solutions that enable carriers, cable multiple system operators, or MSOs, and service providers to rapidly deploy high-speed broadband access to the Internet and corporate networks. Our Subscriber Management System, or SMS, connects and manages large numbers of subscribers using any of the major high-speed access technologies, including digital subscriber line, or DSL, cable and wireless. We sell our SMS product family through our direct sales force, value-added resellers and distribution partners, such as Nokia and Nortel Networks. Bridging the gap between high-speed access concentrators and backbone routers, our SMS is currently being used by many of the largest carriers and service providers, including UUNET, a subsidiary of MCI Worldcom, SBC, Southwestern Bell Information Services and Pacific Bell Internet, subsidiaries of SBC, GTE, Ameritech, Bell South, Concentric, Earthlink, Flashcom, Korea Telecom, Verio and @Work, a division of @Home. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in demand by businesses and consumers for broadband, or high-speed, access to the Internet and to corporate networks. While carriers, cable MSOs and service providers are attempting to provide inexpensive and comprehensive broadband access, there are several major challenges associated with scaling and configuring existing network architectures to accommodate large numbers of new high-speed subscribers. We believe widespread deployment of broadband services requires a new network model for subscriber management, which efficiently terminates subscriber connections, manages broadband subscribers, provides flexibility for typical point-to-point broadband connections, and supports multiple broadband access technologies simultaneously. Our SMS meets the above requirements. Whether deployed by telecommunications carriers at their regional access points, by cable MSOs at a headend or by service providers at a point-of-presence, or POP, the SMS accepts a large concentration of high-speed data traffic from such devices as DSL access multiplexers, or DSLAMs, Cable Modem Termination Systems, or CMTSs, and wireless termination systems. Our SMS reduces the processing requirements placed on backbone routers in broadband networks. Our SMS product family includes the SMS 1000, our flagship solution, which today supports up to 4,000 simultaneous subscribers, and the recently introduced SMS 500, designed for points-of-presence with smaller numbers of subscribers. The key benefits of our solution include: