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Overture Networks Debuts Cost-Efficient Ethernet Service Solutions at SUPERCOMM 2005

Posted on: Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 09:00 CDT

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Overture Networks, a leading developer of converged packet access platforms, is announcing a channelized DS3 interface card for its ISG 5000 and ISG 2200 aggregation platforms at SUPERCOMM 2005. The high-density channelized DS3 card and the newly released ISG 140 and ISG 180, winners of the SUPERQuest 2005 award for Backbone/Edge Networking Equipment at this year's SUPERCOMM event, comprise a complete solution that enables carriers to offer business-class Ethernet services to more customer locations in an extremely cost-efficient manner.

The ISG 140 and ISG 180 were announced in May 2005 and, in conjunction with Overture Networks' e-Marc(TM) intelligent Ethernet demarcation technology, allow providers to offer differentiated Ethernet services over bonded T1/E1 lines, opening up a large market segment of customers who can only be reached via copper networks. The new, complementary channelized DS3 card is capable of aggregating eight T1 customer bundles per card, with each bundle supporting up to eight individual T1 lines. An ISG 5000 can support up to three channelized DS3 cards, thereby providing cost-effective aggregation for as many as 24 customer-located ISG 140s or ISG 180s.

"The combination of the ISG 140 and 180 along with the channelized DS3 card allows carriers to grow their revenues by expanding the delivery of differentiated Ethernet services to the 90 percent of business locations not reachable by fiber," said Chip Redden, vice president of marketing and product management for Overture Networks. "This is significant for customers who require 'all or nothing' network coverage from their provider. Carriers can also enjoy reduced costs in the central office by bundling multiple remote sites together into a single aggregation point."

Overture Networks will showcase the complete ISG product family in booth 78076 at SUPERCOMM 2005. In addition, Overture Networks has also been selected to participate in the '10 Hottest Technologies' Pavilion and will display its pseudo-wire (PWE3) technology in booth 82015E. Overture Networks holds five patents in the area of circuit emulation pseudo-wires that address the challenges of maintaining the reliability of Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) circuits across packet-switched networks. Overture Networks' Vice President of Engineering, Prayson Pate, is a member of the IETF's Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge [PWE3] Working Group and is the co-editor of the PWE3 requirements and architecture documents (RFC 3916 and RFC 3985) that address the mapping of non-IP services to IP and MPLS.

Prayson Pate will also chair a panel session at SUPERCOMM 2005 on the topic of 'Multiservice-enabling Gigabit Ethernet Networks'. The session is comprised of panelists from two leading telecom carriers, Time Warner Telecom and MCI, and networking experts Tellabs and Infonetics Research, and will discuss the key drivers, challenges and successes for delivering both Ethernet and TDM applications across metro Gigabit Ethernet networks.

Finally, Overture Networks' ISG 2200 will be featured in several other SUPERCOMM venues, including Corrigent Systems' Packet ADM solution at SUPERCOMM in booth 38074. Using the Corrigent Packet ADM in conjunction with the ISG 2200, carriers will be able to deliver TDM and Ethernet services to more customer locations, thereby giving them a way of adding new revenue enhancing services like video, VoIP and broadband Internet services.

More information:

Title: Multiservice-Enabling Gigabit Ethernet Networks

Session ID: T07B

Date and Time: Tuesday, June 7th, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Central)

Location: Room 401 B&C (McCormick Place, South Hall - Chicago)

Abstract: Service convergence and new applications are key factors driving the ongoing evolution of metro networks. However, delivering current TDM-based applications across a Gigabit Ethernet packet-based network has raised new challenges. In a competitive marketplace, service providers can neither afford to build separate overlay networks to deliver both Ethernet and TDM-based traffic nor can they afford to forfeit the business of customers who want one provider for all of their service requirements. Advances in technology now address these issues and this session will discuss the options available for delivering multiple services to customers over Gigabit Ethernet, and showcase real-world carriers who have successfully achieved this.

Speakers: Chair: Prayson Pate, Vice President of Engineering, Overture Networks

Bert Buescher, Staff Strategic Planner, Tellabs

Nick DelRegno, Distinguished Engineer, Network Technology Development, MCI

Michael Howard, Principal Analyst and Co-Founder, Infonetics Research

Tony Thakur, Vice President-Engineering and Technology, Time Warner Telecom

The panel is organized as part of the International Engineering Consortium's communications forums at SUPERCOMM.

About Corrigent Systems

Corrigent Systems is a market leader in next generation metro transport systems. Designed to enable profitable delivery of voice, video and data for Triple Play, Carrier Ethernet and Multi-service offerings, Corrigent's focus is metro transport technology that maximizes revenue and profit for service providers. Used by carriers worldwide, the CM-100 line of Packet ADMs integrates the traffic management and control of RPR and MPLS and eliminates the need for multiple transport elements. The Packet ADM allows carriers to evolve their SONET/SDH networks with a fully standards based and interoperable product line that is optimized for today's service requirements. Orckit Communications is the parent company of Corrigent Systems. For more information: http://www.corrigent.com/

About Overture Networks Inc.

Headquartered in North Carolina's high-tech center, Research Triangle Park, Overture Networks has assembled a veteran team with extensive experience delivering edge solutions to carriers and enterprises - experience rooted in IP, Ethernet, and TDM technologies and dedicated to the specific problems metro service providers face in a converged TDM/packet world. The company's ISG product suite is a converged packet access platform that can deliver multiple managed services over any metro-area infrastructure to any location at the customer edge.

For more information visit us at http://www.overturenetworks.com/ .

Overture Networks, the Overture Networks logo, All Services Any Wire, ISG and e-Marc are trademarks of Overture Networks.

Overture Networks Inc.

CONTACT: Aimee Ridgway, Marketing Communications Manager of OvertureNetworks, +1-919-337-4125, or aimee.ridgway@overturenetworks.com, or EricJones of A&R Partners for Overture Networks, +1-212-905-6154, orejones@arpartners.com

Web site: http://www.overturenetworks.com/http://www.corrigent.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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