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Founded in 1998 and based in Redwood City, California CoSine Communications is the leading developer of a new class of managed, network-based IP Service Delivery Platforms purpose-built for the rapid deployment of scalable, custom suites of profitable IP services over public IP networks. CoSine provides this solution for Business IP Service Providers (SPs) who are struggling to create complex, value-added public networks with limited technology and resources. The CoSine IP Service Delivery Platform allows them to offer highly differentiated, managed IP services such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to enterprise subscribers at attractive price points with a high return on investment. CoSine's suite of products enables Service Providers (SPs) to deliver scalable, profitable IP services over public IP backbones. Using traditional public Frame Relay, private-line, and dial-up services for access, CoSine eliminates the cost, management and complexity issues of value-added IP service delivery by moving the implementation from customer premises to the SP's Point of Presence (POP). CoSine's solution is based on a scalable architecture that enables SPs to deliver services on a wider scale and with greater flexibility for years to come. The high-value, CoSine-enabled services give them a strong ROI while building customer loyalty and reducing churn. CoSine's initial product offerings allow SPs to deliver highly differentiated managed VPN services to wholesale and retail subscribers at attractive price points with a high return on investment. top The Move Toward Virtual Service Delivery As the voice and data markets have matured, each has evolved away from premises equipment and toward the delivery of network-based services. This has allowed enterprise subscribers to take advantage of higher functionality with lower price points and fewer manageability headaches. In the early voice market, the subscriber used a dumb access device, the telephone, and the scalable Central Office (CO) switch to deliver point-to-point connectivity. When businesses in the Fortune 2000 needed more than point-to-point connectivity, the PBX market was born. PBXs enabled large businesses to do intelligent call handling, least-cost route selection and other value-added services. However, the cost of both the equipment and management resources has limited growth in the PBX market. Propagating this level of functionality to the masses required a move back to the CO, where a centralized switch delivered virtual PBX Centrex functionality. The lower cost of entry for subscribers created an explosion in the market for business-class voice services. SPs capitalized on the new market, offering additional services to small and medium-sized businesses, creating a tighter bond with the customer and growing revenues. The data service market has followed a similar path. Initially subscribers connected to public data networks using relatively dumb routers. At the carrier CO, a scalable Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) switch delivered point-to-point connectivity over private leased lines. Enterprise customers who wanted to reduce costs while increasing connectivity eventually migrated to private Frame Relay networks. As a result, they cut their WAN access expenses and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) router port costs. Eventually, public Frame Relay networks evolved to provide more scalable Frame Relay connectivity while further reducing the cost of their data network operations. Again, the lowered costs of wide area connectivity served to greatly expand the market for carrier-based data services. A similar analogy can be applied to IP service deployment. Many companies have begun to deploy IP services, such as a VPNs, at the customer premises. These implementations are expensive as well as difficult to deploy and manage. Moreover, most premises-based equipment is simply not designed to provide the performance and manageability that most companies need to perform their mission-critical business transactions. The time is right for a new approach: To move IP service delivery "inside the cloud". cosinecom.com | ||||||||||||
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