New Release of Industry-Leading Licensable Framework Offers Complete Solution for
Ethernet Access, Aggregation, Edge and Transport Equipment
Palo Alto, Calif., May 20, 2009 -
Aricent™, a
global innovation, technology and service company focused exclusively on
communications, today announced ISS-MetroTM, a new release of
its market leading Intelligent Switching Solution (ISS) specifically
optimized for carrier and metro Ethernet product development. Aricent’s
ISS is a licensable, pre-packaged software framework that jumpstarts the
development and integration of advanced switching products, and has been
selected by more than 35 networking and telecom equipment manufacturers
worldwide.
According to Infonetics Research, the majority of access and
aggregation equipment being deployed by carriers around the world will
be IP, Ethernet, and WDM, driving an equipment opportunity of over $20B
USD in 2010.
"Aricent's software is one of the industry's best kept secret
weapons, providing an extensive collection of standards-based protocol
software that manufacturers use in order that their engineering groups
can focus on adding value and differentiation. This new release of
ISS-Metro adds the just-standardized PBB-TE to complex switching
functions that carriers are demanding today,” stated Michael Howard,
principal analyst at Infonetics Research. “The demand for
high-performance Ethernet for enterprise and metro applications is
increasing each year, and frameworks such as ISS-Metro support the
aggressive schedules, advanced features, and operational assurance
customers want.”
Aricent’s ISS-Metro is targeted at networking and telecom
equipment manufacturers building products and services to deploy high
performance Ethernet in access, aggregation, edge and transport
equipment. These deployments range from greenfield build-outs to
replacement of ATM and SONET infrastructure. Applications include FTTH,
FTTC, Ethernet DSL access, MSAN, mobile backhaul/cellular backhaul and
VPNs over packet infrastructure.
The ISS-Metro release offers advanced spanning tree algorithms,
Ethernet Operations, Administration and Management (OAM) capabilities,
Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM), Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB),
Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), virtualization of
switching components, fault tolerant high availability, and Ethernet
protection switching. Aricent also offers MPLS as an add-on to the
ISS-Metro package.
These capabilities, available in a licensable pre-packaged
solution, represent another industry first for Aricent. ISS-Metro is
compliant with 802.1ag, 802.3ah, 802.1ah and 802.1Qay standards from the
IEEE as well as the Y.1731 and G.8031 standards from the ITU-T.
ISS Metro is hardware and operating system agnostic, and can be
easily ported to virtually any platform. Further, Aricent has developed
reference architectures with leading silicon suppliers, providing a high
degree of integration and simplifying product development of today’s
complex switching solutions.
Aricent’s offers ISS packages for a variety of applications,
from simple managed Ethernet switches to industrial Ethernet platforms,
from Layer 3 switches with comprehensive routing capabilities, to metro
Ethernet / carrier Ethernet applications, such as cellular / mobile
backhaul, optical aggregation, DSLAMs, GPON switches, and (Multi Service
Access Nodes) MSANs. Aricent offers flexible licensing models to
customers, who can take advantage of individual components or any
desired combination of hardware and OS. The ISS control plane module
offers a complete feature-set including RSTP/MSTP, VLAN, IGMP Snooping,
GVRP/GMRP, LA, LACP, MLD Snooping and LLDP. The IP routing features
include IPv4, IPv6, RIP, RIPv6, BGP4, OSPF, OSPFv6, IGMP, MLD, PIM and
DVMRP. For more information visit:
http://www.aricent.com/Products/IntelligentEthernetSwitching.aspx
"Aricent’s Intelligent Switching Solution is at the heart of some of
the world's most advanced Ethernet equipment produced globally",
explained C P Murali, Senior Vice President at Aricent. "These new
capabilities will enable our customers to further differentiate their
solutions in the highly competitive market for metro Ethernet
equipment."
Keywords & tags: intelligent switching, ethernet,
PBB, PBB-TE, FTTC, FTTH, MSAN, mobile backhaul, cellular backhaul, VPN,
packet infrastructure, Metro Ethernet, RSTP/MSTP, VLAN, IGMP Snooping,
GVRP/GMRP, LA, LACP, MLD Snooping LLDP,IPv4, IPv6, RIP, RIPv6, BGP4,
OSPF, OSPFv6, IGMP, MLD, PIM and DVMRP
About Aricent
Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused
exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation
capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in
communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost
infrastructure, application and service providers. The company’s
investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The
Family Office and Flextronics International Ltd. For more information,
visit http://www.aricent.com.
Aricent is a trademark of Aricent Inc. in the United States and other
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