IP Infusion to Release ZebOS(R) Network Platform 7.7

- Includes complete Carrier Ethernet offerings with the addition of new Provider Backbone Bridge-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) features

- Provides breakthrough time to market for equipment manufacturers

- Allows customers to develop and promote their own brand

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ — IP Infusion, an ACCESS company and provider of intelligent software for Next Generation Network (NGN) equipment manufacturers and converged IP services providers, today announced the release of its ZebOS Network Platform version 7.7 software which supports PBB-TE functionality, an essential ingredient to creating large Carrier Ethernet networks.

Available in April, 2009, ZebOS 7.7 is the most complete core networking platform that provides full support for MPLS and for Carrier Ethernet, allowing router and switch OEMs to lower their software engineering costs and reduce time to market in delivering next-generation transport hardware to market.

Specific features in ZebOS 7.7 include:

• Support for Provider Backbone Bridge-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE)
• Enhanced resiliency for IP routing and MPLS signaling with the support for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• Complete non-stop forwarding (NSF) functionality for IP and MPLS
• Hardened implementation of BGP Route Server for deployment in Carrier Networks utilizing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware
• Support for OpenSAF, the industry’s leading high-availability (HA) middleware
• Ability of MPLS solution to support pseudowires across multiple Packet Switched Networks (PSNs)
• Broadcom StrataXGS IV support

“In this time of economic uncertainty, it is becoming increasingly important for networking equipment manufacturers to develop their equipment with a time-to-market advantage, without sacrificing functionality,” said Koichi Narasaki, president and CEO, IP Infusion. “ZebOS 7.7 is pre-integrated with leading merchant silicon and operating systems as well as high-availability middleware. Its release demonstrates IP Infusion’s continuing role as an industry leader in providing the critical market-ready solutions needed to allow vendors to quickly deploy products for the expanding NGN markets.”

IP Infusion specializes in helping equipment providers bring IP-based and Ethernet-based NGN equipment to market on time, with assured quality and reduced cost and risk. The ZebOS Network Platform provides customers in the service provider, enterprise router/switch and home gateway markets with robust, standards-based solutions. ZebOS is the industry’s most comprehensive suite of IPv4 and IPv6 Layer 2/Layer 3, MPLS and Metro Ethernet protocols. When combined with IP Infusion’s experienced professional services, ZebOS delivers a complete, fully-customized solution to market.

IP Infusion will be showcasing their technologies at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress, Stand #111 to be held February 10-13 in Paris, France. In addition, K. Ramesh Babu, vice president of professional services and support, will be presenting on the topic of “Implementation Robustness for Carrier Operations” at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 10 at the event.

About ACCESS

ACCESS CO., LTD. is a global company providing leading technology, software products and platforms for Web browsing, mobile phones, wireless handhelds, and other networked devices. ACCESS’ product portfolio, including its NetFront(TM) Browser, Garnet(TM) OS and ACCESS Linux Platform(TM), provides customers with solutions that enable faster time to market, flexibility and customizability. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operates 24 subsidiaries and affiliates within Asia, Europe and the United States. ACCESS is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mother’s Index under the number 4813. For more information about ACCESS, please visit http://www.access-company.com/

About IP Infusion

IP Infusion delivers advanced software solutions that power communications equipment for packet-based Next Generation Networks (NGN). With a unique modular architecture and the industry’s broadest suite of communication protocols, IP Infusion enhances product differentiation and market agility for many of the world’s leading network equipment vendors. Incorporated in Delaware in October 1999, IP Infusion is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and is a wholly owned and independently-operated subsidiary of ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of ACCESS CO., LTD., of Tokyo, Japan. For more information about IP Infusion, please visit www.ipinfusion.com.

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