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APRIL 13, 1999
Newbridge Networks Provides Industry's Most
Cost-Effective Integrated Management for Premium Quality
IP-VPN Services
HAMBURG, GERMANY--TELEMANAGEMENT WORLD - Siemens / Newbridge
MainStreetXpress(tm) 46020 Network Manager Extends Multiservice
Management to Premium IP-VPN Services
Newbridge Networks (NYSE: NN; TSE: NNC) today announced that it
has strengthened the management capabilities of the
MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, its industry-leading,
carrier class multiservice management platform, to support premium
quality business Internet protocol (IP) virtual private network
(VPN) services. The MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager
provides full management capabilities to the Newbridge(r) Carrier
Switched Routing solution, based on the Carrier Scale
Internetworking (CSI) approach. It contributes significantly to
reducing both service provider operations costs and total cost of
ownership (TCO).
"The complexity and costs associated with delivering IP services
is one of the key challenges facing service providers today," said
TeleManagement Forum chairman Keith Willetts. "Service providers
are looking for network and service management capabilities from
suppliers like Newbridge that will allow the deployment of fully
managed, premium quality IP-VPN services that will dramatically
lower their total cost ofownership."
"The MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager provides unique
network partitioning and policy-based management of IP-VPN
services - key attributes in reducing complexity and total cost of
ownership while deploying differentiated managed services," said
Vish Raju, Assistant Vice President, Service Management Systems,
Newbridge Networks. "These features help service providers
maximize the utilization of their network assets while providing
customers with enforceable service-level guarantees."
A recently published study by leading industry analyst firm the
Yankee Group polled prominent IP-VPN service providers and found
that the CSI approach reduces TCO by 14 percent and operations
costs by 37 percent to provide the most cost-effective
carrier-based IP-VPN solution available. The study found that
operations costs - the fully loaded cost of the service provider
staff that installs, manages and maintains the network - are the
biggest concern to service providers and therefore a key
differentiator in their choice of an IP-VPN solution. The
MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, with its centralized
policy creation and distribution capabilities, is the core
management component of CSI.
"Operations costs account for up to 38 percent of the total cost
of ownership associated with networks that service providers use
to deliver IP-VPN services. As such, addressing these costs is of
primary importance to service providers," said Eric Hindin,
Director of Network Solutions, the Yankee Group. "The CSI approach
addresses all the tasks that carriers say contribute the most to
operational costs. It is also unique in that it significantly
eases the burdens associated with device configuration. By
reducing service provider workload, CSI allows carriers to roll
out services and enhancements faster and ensure performance and
functionality."
Newbridge Carrier Switched Routing, based on CSI, leverages a
standards-based, multiservice asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
infrastructure to deliver IP-VPN services that allow customer
isolation and differentiated classes of service. Carrier Switched
Routing interoperates with multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)
and other standard routing protocols to provide end-to-end class
of service transport for IP-based services. A key component of the
Newbridge Carrier Switched Routing solution, the MainStreetXpress
46020 Network Manager extends its unique network partitioning and
integrated ATM, frame relay, and time division multiplexing (TDM)
provisioning capabilities to premium IP-VPNs. The MainStreetXpress
46020 solution enables service providers to assign customers to
bridged virtual local area networks (LANs) or routed virtual
subnets and then associate centrally defined IP configuration
policies and classes of service with these VPNs. These policies
automatically forward to the switched routing network's
distributed components, greatly simplifying IP-VPN service
provisioning and management. Unlike conventional routing-based
solutions that require independent configuration changes on all
devices in the VPN, the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager
adds new access points and changes class of service through a
single operational command.
Service providers can also create virtual connections between the
IP-VPN routing core and the customer premises using ATM, frame
relay or TDM connectivity and a wide range of last mile
technologies, such as digital subscriber line (xDSL), broadband
wireless and conditioned copper or fiber. By integrating
centralized IP-VPN policy creation capability with multiservice
management, the MainStreetXpress 46020 solution provides a single
point of control for integrated Layer 2, Layer 3 and multi-access
networks.
The MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager's unique network
partitioning and operator profiling capabilities combine the
economies of scale of a shared network infrastructure with the
flexibility of a private network to provide highly granular
control over network resource assignment and operator actions.
Even individual ports can be shared, with guaranteed quality of
service (QoS), between customer IP-VPNs.
Customers can be provided with monitoring and control capabilities
over their VPNs, allowing them to proactively escalate and resolve
network problems and monitor service level agreements (SLAs). The
MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager combines customer
partitioning with the statistics and accounting data collection
infrastructure to accommodate a broad range of performance
reporting and usage-based billing applications.
CSI was introduced by Newbridge, Siemens and 3Com in 1997. It is
an open, standards-based solutions framework that enables service
providers to deliver scalable, reliable and easy to manage IP VPNs
over a multiservice ATM infrastructure. Components of the
solution have been formally included by the ATM Forum as part of
several of its standards.
Newbridge is a long-standing, active member of the Telemanagement
Forum - a global consortium of service providers and suppliers
that provides leadership to the telecom industry on the most
effective ways to improve the management of public networks and
services in today's competitive global market.
The Newbridge network and service management portfolio will be
demonstrated at TeleManagement World in Hamburg, Germany April
13-15, 1999.
Newbridge Networks designs, manufactures, markets and services
networking solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries.
The Company leverages its relationship with a growing family of
Affiliate companies and strategic alliances with Siemens and 3Com
Corporation to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions. Newbridge
customers include the world's 300 largest telecommunications
service providers and more than 10,000 corporations, government
organizations and other institutions. Founded in 1986, the Company
employs more than 6,000 people on six continents. News and
information are available at www.newbridge.com.
Newbridge and logo are registered trademarks of Newbridge Networks
Corporation.
MainStreetXpress is a trademark used by the Siemens / Newbridge
alliance for comprehensive solutions in broadband communication.
No agency relationship, partnership, or joint ownership of a legal
entity is to be inferred or implied by the use of the term
alliance.
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