CMTN News...
Copper Mountain Networks is going places. Just another blurb of their "internet plumbing" activities...
(BSNS WIRE) Copper Mountain and CoSine Communications Partner to Deliver
Copper Mountain and CoSine Communications Partner to Deliver Industry's First
Integrated Solution for Advanced IP Services Over DSL
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000--
Copper Mountain's CopperEdge DSL Concentrator and CoSine's IP
Service Delivery Platform Enable Service Providers to Offer
Value-Added Business Services Such as VPNs and Managed Firewalls
Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMTN), and CoSine
Communications today announced the availability of the industry's
first "IP intelligent edge" Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) solution
that will enable service providers to deliver advanced IP services
over DSL using their existing network infrastructures.
The two companies have successfully completed interoperability
testing of Copper Mountain's CopperEdge(R) DSL concentrator and
CoSine's IP Service Delivery Platform.
Unlike simple concentration implementations, the combined Copper
Mountain/CoSine intelligent edge solution provides carriers with a
cost-effective and scalable means of offering value-added services
over DSL, including secure IP virtual private networks (VPNs) and
managed firewalls, to tens of thousands of subscriber networks.
Now carriers can use DSL to provide secure IP VPNs in the same
way that these services can be provided via private line, Frame Relay
and dial access services. The CopperEdge DSL concentrator efficiently
processes traffic and transmits it over Frame Relay or ATM to the
CoSine IP Service Delivery Platform, where a variety of value-added IP
services can be applied to each subscriber's network connection.
With the Copper Mountain/CoSine solution, carriers can leverage
existing infrastructure to offer various VPN features that address a
broad base of customer requirements, including the following:
*T
-- Site-to-site VPNs: the ability to create secure VPN connections
between offices
-- Remote-access, dial-up VPNs: the ability to create secure VPN
connections for mobile workers
-- Extranets: the ability to create secure VPN connections for
suppliers, partners and customers
*T
Another value-added service that carriers can offer with this
advanced IP intelligent edge solution is managed firewalls. Many
small- and medium-sized businesses implementing DSL are migrating from
analog or digital dial-up connections and are concerned with the
heightened security risks associated with an "always-on" connection.
The Copper Mountain/CoSine solution provides network-based
firewall services, a more scalable and manageable alternative to
implementing customer premises equipment (CPE)-based firewall
services.
Copper Mountain and CoSine also support IPSec encryption services
today and plan to support additional enhanced security services over
DSL, including intrusion detection and virus scanning for data
traffic. CoSine provides best-of-breed security capabilities, licensed
from Network Associates, to ensure that carriers always have the most
robust and up-to-date security mechanisms in place for VPNs, firewalls
and other services.
Copper Mountain's advanced CopperVPN capability further extends
the performance of the CoSine IP Service Delivery Platform by
aggregating hundreds of users onto a single virtual circuit. This
significantly improves the scalability of the solution compared to any
other DSL concentrator.
Carriers can provision any of the new Copper
Mountain/CoSine-enhanced IP services without changing existing
equipment or software at the customer site. The enhanced capabilities
work with CopperRocket(R) CPE devices as well as third-party
CopperCompatible(TM) CPE devices.
Cosine's IP Service Delivery Platform's unique ability to support
tens of thousands of virtual routers, IPSec encryption services and
Frame Relay over IPSec interworking allows carriers to offer
differentiated DSL services in new markets with less investment in new
equipment. Value-added services can be applied to DSL customer traffic
and securely transported over the Internet to a central site.
"This is the first instance of a DSL concentrator with high IP
intelligence and a network-based IP service delivery platform,
creating a truly integrated access solution that service providers can
use to deliver multiple enhanced services over a single broadband DSL
loop," said Rick Gilbert, president and CEO of Copper Mountain.
"CoSine has made network-based IP services a reality, and its platform
offers the scalability, management and processing power required to
deliver the next wave of value-added business Internet services. This
really is a best-of-breed solution for service providers."
"By working together, Copper Mountain and CoSine have created a
cost-effective, flexible and scalable IP-based solution that can
deliver on-demand applications like VPNs and managed firewalls," said
Dean Hamilton, CEO of CoSine. "As the market shifts toward new
applications, service providers will require the IP-based
class-of-service and security functionality that our joint solutions
provide."
"The Copper Mountain and CoSine interoperability alliance makes
sense for both companies," said Ron Westfall, a senior analyst at
Current Analysis. "It allows each of them to expand their market
opportunities and should prove mutually beneficial for both. Copper
Mountain can counter the DSL concentrator/IP service edge offerings
from its rivals, and CoSine enhances its recent expansion into the DSL
market by partnering with an industry leader."
Copper Mountain and CoSine Equipment Solutions
Copper Mountain's CopperEdge DSL concentrators deliver bandwidth
of up to 1.5 Mbps on a DSL line using a single copper pair, and up to
12 Mbps using inverse multiplexing (IMUX) technology, while supporting
multiple services over DSL, including Internet access, toll-quality
voice services, corporate VPNs and Frame Relay. The CopperEdge DSL
concentrator's built-in layer-2 and layer-3 functionality enables
carriers to deliver differentiated multi-tiered services to their
customers and to ease service provisioning.
Cosine Communication's IP Service Delivery Platform includes the
IPSX 9000(TM) non-stop IP service processing switch (a carrier-class
switch capable of supporting tens of thousands of subscriber
networks), the InVision(TM) Service Management System (SMS) and the
InGage(TM) Customer Network Management (CNM) system. This platform
enables Service Providers to create, manage and deliver value-added IP
services to enterprise customers, who, in turn, can monitor and
control their portion of the public IP network.
About Copper Mountain Networks
Copper Mountain Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq:CMTN) develops and
markets a comprehensive family of DSL solutions that enable high-speed
internetworking over existing copper facilities. The company's mission
is to enable carriers and other service providers to offer a full
range of high-performance, cost-effective data and voice services over
DSL that are easy to deploy, use, and manage. Copper Mountain's
CopperRocket(R) CPE family addresses the bandwidth, reliability,
ease-of-use, and cost concerns of remote offices and users.
Its carrier-class CopperEdge(R) DSL concentrators and
CopperView(TM) network management solutions offer a robust and
scalable platform for carriers and multi-tenant-unit service providers
to generate a high return on investment while satisfying the
ever-increasing user demand for bandwidth.
Customers wanting more information about Copper Mountain products
can contact Diana Helfrich at 650/687-3314 or visit the company's
World Wide Web site at coppermountain.com. For investor
relations information, call toll free 877-INFO-CMTN (463-6268) or
contact the company at IR@coppermountain.com.
About CoSine Communications
Founded in 1997 and based in Redwood City, Calif., CoSine
Communications is the leading developer of managed IP service delivery
platforms for Business IP service providers that risk losing
profitability with today's low-value Internet access services. The
CoSine solution enables Next Gen Telcos, Competitive IXCs,
International Service Providers and PTTs to quickly and reliably turn
up value-added services to their wholesale and retail subscribers.
For more information about CoSine, please contact Suzanne
Panoplos at 650/637-4777 or visit the company website at
www.cosinecom.com.
Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements
regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties.
Copper Mountain wishes to caution you that there are some factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from the results
indicated by such statements. These factors include, but are not
limited to quarterly fluctuations in operating results attributable to
the timing and amount of orders for our products, the concentration of
our revenue in a small number of customers, factors affecting the rate
of DSL deployment by our customers, market acceptance of our products,
our ability to keep pace with rapidly changing product requirements,
and factors affecting the demand for DSL technologies. We refer you to
the documents Copper Mountain files from time to time with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled
Risk Factors in our Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No.
333-73153).
Note to Editors: Copper Mountain and all Copper Mountain product
names are trademarks of Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. All other marks
are the property of their respective owners
--30--gm/sf* mr/sf
CONTACT: Copper Mountain Networks, Inc., Palo Alto
Diana Helfrich, 650/687-3314
dhelfrich@coppermountain.com
or
CoSine Communications, Redwood City
Suzanne Panoplos, 650/637-4777
spanoplos@cosinecom.com
or
Gallagher PR
Michelle Krueger, 510/749-6800 ext. 202
michelle@gpr.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS NETWORKING HARDWARE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKETING AGREEMENTS
Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet
with Hyperlinks to your home page.
URL: businesswire.com
*** end of story *** |
