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NETPLANE ADDS OPTICAL SIGNALING EXTENSIONS TO ITS
CARRIER-CLASS MPLS
NetPlane Systems
introduced optical signaling software designed for
carrier-class optical core equipment and applications where
packetized MPLS and optical MPLS signaling will converge.
The new product, which provides optical extensions to
NetPlane’s existing MPLS-LTCS (Label Traffic Control System)
portable source code, supports the G-MPLS
(Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching) standard being
developed by the IETF. Future releases will support OIF
(Optical Internetworking Forum) Optical-UNI, as well as
integrated routing and signaling. NetPlane said the launch
of its LTCS-Optical software marks the beginning of its
strategy for integrated signaling and routing, both for
classical and optical IP networking. The vision would be to
enable rapid provisioning across network layers, including
Packet, Optical and TDM. AcceLight Networks and VIPswitch
are among several manufacturers with plans to license the
optical signaling extensions. Commercial release is
targeted for the end of June.
http://www.netplane.com
NetPlane, June 4, 2001
- Last month, NetPlane
Systems introduced a BGP 4 (Border Gateway Protocol)
module for its carrier class, OPTIRoute IP routing
software suite. The company's initial OPTIRoute release,
which was launched earlier this year, already supported
the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) interior gateway
protocol. NetPlane’s source code is targeted at high
performance IP service platforms, optical switches,
petabit and terabit routers, broadband access devices,
multi-protocol core and edge routers. NetPlane’s
OPTIRoute source code leverages a carrier-class Forwarding
Information Base (FIB) to distribute IP routing
functionality for platform scalability. The design also
supports MPLS traffic engineering through the ability to
provide constrained route lookups for MPLS signaling
protocols during LSP establishment. The company’s
portable source code now encompasses MPLS, IP Routing, ATM
and Frame Relay.
PHOTONEX DEMONSTRATES 16X CHANNEL, 40 GBPS TRANSMISSION OVER
1,500 KM
PhotonEx, a
start-up based in Maynard, Massachusetts, announced a
laboratory test of its optical transport technology that
demonstrated the ability to carry 16 wavelengths of 40 Gbps
traffic over a 1,500 km span of ordinary fiber. The test
used commercially available components and non-zero
dispersion shifted fiber, based on terrestrial fiber spans
of 100 km. Raman amplifiers were used on only every fourth
span and no signal conditioners were required. In addition,
PhotonEx’ demonstration used a 100 GHz channel separation,
providing a spectral efficiency of 0.4 bit/s/Hz. PhotonEx
said the high bit rate capacity, high spectral efficiency
and long reach of its optical transmission system would
provide network operators with a significant economic
advantage over other alternatives for increasing capacity,
such as lighting additional fibers or having to expand to
additional spectral bands (going outside the C-band), which
introduces complexity and risk.
http://www.photonex.com
PhotonEx, June 4, 2001
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Last
week, PhotonEx announced its Ultrafast Dynamic Core
architecture, which would enable granular bandwidth
services drawn from a pool of available capacity, rather
than delivered as 2.5 Gbps or 10 Gbps wavelengths. The
company will offer a DWDM transport system that uses GMPLS-based
dynamic provisioning to provide service creation through
the core of the network. The platform will also use an
open control plane for deployment of simplified
network-wide services across multi-vendor networks. The
company plans to ship a 40 Gbps high-capacity DWDM
transport system in the second half of 2001.
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PhotonEx
was founded in September 1999 by Dr. Kristin Rauschenbach
and Dr. Katherine Hall, both of whom previously held
executive positions at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, as well
as Dr. Nanying Yin, who previously served as Director of
Nortel Networks' Internet Core Router Group.
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PhotonEx
has raised $88 million in two rounds of funding. Its
principal investors include Oak Investment Partners,
Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Essex
Investment Management, the Photonics Fund, and Intel
Capital.
TELLIUM DELIVERS ITS AURORA 128 OPTICAL SWITCH TO DYNEGY
Tellium delivered
its Aurora 128 optical core switch to Dynegy Global
Communications. The Aurora 128 supports up to 128
OC-48/STM-16 or 32 OC-192/STM-64 ports, up to a total of 320
Gbps of bi-directional traffic. Financial terms were not
disclosed.
http://www.tellium.com
Tellium, June 1, 2001
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In
February, Dynegy, a leading provider of energy in North
America and Europe, launched its “Dynegyconnect Internet
Service” over its new optical mesh network. Dynergy is
deploying Fujitsu Network Communications’ FLASHWAVE OADX
DWDM, which offers up to 1.76 Tbps capacity without
regeneration. The nationwide optically switched data
network will consist of approximately 20,000 route miles
of fiber and more than 40 POPs with over 100 FLASHWAVE
OADX systems by Q4 2001. Fujitsu’s system uses 88
channels in each of two bands of the transmission
spectrum, the C and L bands, using 50GHz spacing between
each channel.
ONI SYSTEMS SELECTED BY DYNEGY/TELSEON FOR 18 CITIES
ONI Systems
signed a multi-million dollar contract with Dynegy Global
Communications to supply its ONLINE transport platform for
deployment in 18 US cities this year. Dynegy and Telseon
have entered into a network service agreement to develop an
18 city all-optical network capable of providing
high-bandwidth solutions between multiple
points-of-presence. Under a separate agreement with ONI,
Telseon began deploying ONI equipment in their networks in
Q1 2001.
http://www.oni.com/index.jsp?nextURL=%2Fnews%2Fpr%2Fview.jsp%3Fid%3D3020
ONI Systems, June 1, 2001
NTT DEVELOPS IPV6 SECURE DYNAMIC VPN TECHNOLOGY
NTT announced a new IPv6 security paradigm and multicast
stream usage control technology that it plans to use for
future network services based on IPv6. The technology would
essentially enable Dynamic Virtual Private Networks (DVPNs)
in which a third-party validation agency provides
simultaneous authentication for end-to-end secure
connections. Unlike traditional security technologies that
validate digital certificates for each individual IPv6
terminal, DVPN adopts a method by which digital certificates
for community participants are automatically verified by a
third-party validation agency when a connection is
established. The secure IPv6 multicast system, which is
designed to allow network operators to control Internet
broadcasts, would encrypt the media content using a common
key, encrypt that common key using a individual key for each
user that has usage privileges, and then distribute these "
encrypted common keys" along with the encrypted contents in
stream format. NTT Communications has been providing IPv6
service since April 2001. The company plans to test its DVPN
technologies in conjunction with this service.
http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news01e/0106/010601.html
NTT, June 1, 2001
HITACHI ANNOUNCES IPV6 ROUTING AT OC-48C, TARGETS 40 GBPS
IPV6 ROUTING
Hitachi announced
support for IPv6 at OC-48c wire-rate on its GR2000 family of
Gigabit Routers. Product availability is slated for
September. The platform implements IPv6 routing, as well as
fine-grained QoS and filtering based on IPv6, using
high-speed ASICs. Hitachi also announced plans for an IPv6
router capable of operating at 40 Gbps line rates. The
company hopes to introduce the product next year.
http://global.hitachi.com/
Hitachi, June 3, 2001
NEC INTRODUCES ITS NEXT GENERATION TERRESTRIAL/SUBMARINE
DWDM MESH DESIGN
NEC introduced
its next generation "Terrestrial/Submarine Integrated Global
Seamless Network" for international network operators.
NEC’s new design features a mesh architecture for undersea
cables. It also provides close integration with terrestrial
networking infrastructure. New network management systems
could use the advances to enable rapid provisioning of
optical services across both terrestrial and submarine
networks. http://www.nec.com
NEC, June 1, 2001
ERICSSON SHOWS CARRIER VPN SOLUTIONS FOR MOBILE AND FIXED
OPERATORS
Ericsson announced its latest product line-up for
enabling mobile and fixed wireless operators to offer
network-based VPN services with carrier-grade reliability
and provisioning. Ericsson's Carrier VPNs use IP and ATM
standards (including RFC 2547 bis), for QoS functionality
and scalability of subscribers and IP traffic. Ericsson’s
product line-up includes the AXI 580 and AXI 520 series IP
Backbone Routers (Juniper routers), AXI 540 Edge Aggregation
Router and AXD 301 ATM Switch. A new Policy Deployment
Manager (PDM) software platform based on XML (Extensible
Markup Language) and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker
Architecture facilitates flow through provisioning of
IP/MPLS-based VPNs and QoS policies. Scalable and
manageable MPLS VPNs are augmented with firewall and IPSec
support for additional security.
http://www.ericsson.com
Ericsson, June 1, 2001
FUJITSU MERGES ITS EUROPEAN TELECOM SUBSIDIARIES
Fujitsu will
merge its existing European telecommunications subsidiaries
into a new Fujitsu Networks Europe Limited, which will be
headquartered in
London. The company’s major telecom divisions in Europe
include Fujitsu Europe Telecom R&D Centre Limited (Uxbridge,
UK), which carries out development of transport access,
wireless and switching systems; Fujitsu Telecom Deutschland
GmbH (Hessen, Germany), which sells and services
telecommunications equipment primarily in Germany; and
Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Limited (Birmingham, UK),
which sell manufactures, markets and deploys communications
equipment.
http://www.fujitsu.com
Fujitsu, June 1, 2001
- Fujitsu recently announced
an order from 360networks for its pan-European network.
The contract covered Fujitsu’s FLASHWAVE 320G DWDM system
and FLASH-192 10Gbps optical transmission system.
CISCO DETAILS WRITEDOWNS FOR MONTEREY, HYNEX AND CLARITY
WIRELESS
In an SEC filing submitted on June 1st,
Cisco Systems detailed $289 million in special charges,
including writedowns of $108 million in reference to its
acquisition of Monterey Networks, $79 million in reference
to its acquisition of HyNex Networks and $53 million in
reference to its acquisition of Clarity Wireless (broadband
customer premise equipment).
http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/quotes_sec.asp?symbol=CSCO%60&selected=CSCO%60
June 1, 2001
PSINET FILES FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION
PSINet and 24 of its operating subsidiaries in the
US have voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11 of
the US Bankruptcy Code. Four of the company’s Canadian
subsidiaries took similar action in Canada. PSINet expects
that it and all of its subsidiaries will continue to provide
reliable service to customers.
http://www.psi.net
PSINet, June 1, 2001
TELUS OFFERS TO ACQUIRE PSINET’S CANADIAN OPERATIONS
TELUS has offered
to purchase PSINet's Canadian operations and facilities. The
companies signed a letter of intent concurrently with PSINet
Inc.'s announcement of filing for bankruptcy protection. In
Canada, PSINet has approximately 275 employees and about 50
points-of- presence, or connection facilities.
http://www.telus.com/
TELUS, June 1, 2001 |
