ROUTESCIENCE DEVELOPS PLATFORM TO CONTROL INTERNET ROUTING
AT THE NETWORK EDGE
RouteScience, a
start-up based in San Mateo, California, unveiled plans for
a unique “route controller” platform for optimizing a
company’s multiple ISP links by providing real-time
performance measurements of paths across the Internet to end
users. Using these performance metrics and customer
preferences for ISP link cost, RouteScience’s PathControl
platform determines the best ISP path for end-users and can
then automatically update the organization’s edge routers
with the best path routing information. The route
performance measurement relies on a proprietary
closed-feedback loop system that does not use pings. Route
updates are provided to the edge routers using standard
Border Gateway Protocol. A large company with multiple ISPs
would use the systems to route traffic to the ISP links that
actually deliver the best end-to-end performance. The
solution could also be used by a Tier-2/3 service provider
to route traffic to multiple backbone carriers depending on
cost and real-time performance metrics. The company said
default BGP chooses a sub-optimal route 50% - 80% of the
time, depending on the number of alternative ISP paths. Of
those routes that can be improved, an alternate ISP is on
average 2 times faster.
RouteScience claims its system provides deep visibility into
ISP performance and could fundamentally change network
service agreements and pricing by moving control over
Internet routing decisions to the network edge.
http://www.routescience.com
RouteScience, August 20, 2001
- RouteScience is led by
Herb Madan, who previously was Vice President and General
Manager, Service Provider Line of Business at Cisco
Systems, and CEO and Co-Founder of Netsys Technologies
(acquired by Cisco in 1996). The company’s founding team
also includes Jim McGuire, previously Senior Director of
Engineering, Service Provider Line of Business at Cisco
Systems and Co-Founder of Netsys, and Joel Evanier,
previously Director of Enterprise Sales at Cisco Systems
and Vice President of Sales at Netsys. The company’s
technical team also includes Mike Lloyd, who was the
principal architect for the MPLS VPN provisioning system
at Cisco Systems, and a senior engineer on BGP and other
routing simulations.
- RouteScience was founded
in December 1999 and is funded by Sequoia Capital and
Benchmark Capital.
VITESSE ANNOUNCES NEW SONET/SDH SWITCH FABRICS AND LINE CARD
DEVICES
Vitesse Semiconductor introduced its next generation
of SONET/SDH switch fabric and line card devices, enabling
increased density of OC-48 and OC-192 interfaces, allowing
implementation of 2.5 Gbps backplane connectivity, providing
support for VT1.5 grooming and delivering higher density
STS-1/STM-1 grooming. The new SONET/SDH chipset solution is
targeted at all-optical transport applications, such as next
generation SONET/SDH ADMs at the optical edge, Multiservice
Provisioning Platforms (MSPPs) in metro environments, and
high density STS-1/STM-1 based optical crossconnects in the
core. Among their new features, Vitesse’s next generation
SONET/SDH chips will provide hardware-based protection
switching, allowing vendors to construct equipment that can
detect and recover from fiber cuts or equipment failures
within a millisecond. The new product line-up will also
offer future support for OC-768.
http://www.vitesse.com
Vitesse, August 20, 2001
TRANSWITCH TO ACQUIRE ONEX FOR ITS MULTISERVICE SILICON
TranSwitch Corporation agreed to acquire Onex
Communications, a start-up developing multiservice silicon
solutions, for approximately $89 million in stock and cash.
Onex's silicon is being designed to aggregate, groom, switch
and provision legacy TDM and next generation voice and data
traffic over metropolitan access and transmission networks.
Onex was founded with TranSwitch technology and TranSwitch
was an original investor in Onex. Other investors include
IBM, St. Paul Ventures, Signal Lake Venture Fund, Star
Ventures, TSF Entrepreneurial Roundtable, and Venrock
Associates. TranSwitch said it has incubated several other
start-ups with promising technology. Onex is based in
Bedford, Massachusetts.
http://www.transwitch.com
TranSwitch, August 17, 2001
- Last September, Onex
announced plans for a line of ASICs aimed at the optical
network service switching layer. The company’s silicon
architecture is being designed to aggregate, groom, route
and switch TDM, Frame, IP and ATM traffic from DS1 through
OC-192 across Layers 1-5 of the network. IBM has agreed
to manufacture Onex’ forthcoming customized ASICs and
holds an equity stake in the company. IBM also agreed to
provide a high performance core for the Onex ASICs.
ZNYX NETWORKS TO PROVIDE SIEMENS WITH EMBEDDED ETHERNET
SWITCHES FOR ITS SOFTSWITCH
ZNYX Networks, a start-up based in Fremont,
California, announced an OEM agreement to provide its
embedded switches as a core plug-in component of Siemens'
carrier-grade, SURPASS hiQ softswitch solutions. Two ZNYX
ZX4500 switches provide internal Ethernet communications for
each hiQ 9200 softswitch. The hiQ's subsystems -- Call
Feature Control, Media Gateway Control, IP Signaling
Gateway, Signaling Processors, and SS7 -- communicate at
full line rate through ZNYX's OpenArchitect switch. The
switch also provides a high-speed interface to the external
network via a pair of fiber Gigabit Ethernet ports.
http://www.znyx.com/
ZNYX Networks, August 17, 2001
METROMEDIA FIBER NETWORK RECEIVES FINANCING COMMITMENT
Metromedia Fiber Network received financial
commitments needed for a $150 million note facility led by
Citicorp USA. The commitment letter replaces a previously
announced $350 million commitment letter and is subject to
conditions including the receipt of (i) commitments from
other sources in the amount of $230 million ($180 million of
which has been committed by affiliates of the company), (ii)
$200 million of vendor financing and (iii) agreements from
other company vendors to defer payment of the Company's
obligations to such vendors.
http://www.mmfn.com
Metromedia Fiber Network, August 17, 2001
US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO RE-BID KEY NETWORKING
CONTRACT
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) notified Global
Crossing that a key contract it was awarded in July to
provide advanced wide area network services for the Defense
Research and Engineering Network (DREN) may have to be
re-bid to address procedural issues in the procurement
process. The procedural issues were discovered by the DoD
after the contract was challenged by unsuccessful bidders.
As previously disclosed, the DREN contract is valued at $137
million over three years.
http://www.globalcrossing.com/pressreleases/pr_081701.htm
Global Crossing, August 17, 2001
BELLSOUTH ON-TARGET TO EQUIP ALL COs WITH ADSL BY Q4 2002
BellSouth has now equipped more than 100 central
offices (COs) in North Carolina with ADSL. The company said
it is on-target to equip virtually all its offices with ADSL
by the end of 2002. In addition, BellSouth has deployed
more than 1,000 remote terminals with ADSL, with an
additional 200 scheduled for the remainder of 2001 and 900
more in 2002.
http://bellsouthcorp.com/newsroom/
BellSouth, August 16, 2001
NOKIA COMPLETES FIRST 3G WCDMA VOICE CALL ON COMMERCIAL
3GPP SYSTEM
Nokia completed the world's first 3GPP (3rd
Generation Partnership Program) Release 99 standard
compliant AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) WCDMA voice call. The
call was conducted using a 3GPP standard compatible
commercial network and the first commercial versions of
Nokia 3GPP standard compatible mobile terminals in WCDMA and
GSM modes. The end-to-end WCDMA call was made between Nokia
laboratories in Oulu and Salo, Finland, by representatives
of the Finnish operators Radiolinja and Sonera.
http://press.nokia.com/PR/200108/831208_5.html
Nokia, August 17, 2001
IDEALOGIX NAMES CEO, TARGETS NETWORKS OF WIRELESS SENSORS
ideaLogix, a start-up
developing wireless monitoring and control systems,
named Dr. Paul Lazay as its new CEO, replacing interim CEO
and Co-Founder Jamshed Dubash. Lazay most recently served
as CEO of IronBridge Networks and previously held management
positions with Advanced Telecommunications Modules (ATML),
Cisco Systems, Telco Systems and AT&T Bell Labs.
ideaLogix is developing a
low cost, user-friendly system for the enterprise market
that captures, analyzes and distributes information from a
network of intelligent nodes. Over 1,000 such nodes could
communicate over a wireless network using a proprietary
wireless protocol to enable remote monitoring and control
systems. The company was founded in June 2000 and is based
in Framingham, Mass.
http://www.idealogix.com
ideaLogix, August 19, 2001
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