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Flextronics Software Systems Unveils Industry's First Layer-2 Ethernet Switching Software With High Availability Capability

Posted on: Monday, 20 March 2006, 09:00 CST

Flextronics Software Systems (FSS), a global end-to-end communication solutions provider launched the industry's first Layer-2 Ethernet switching software suite with High-Availability redundancy capability. A significant improvement over other Layer-2 Ethernet switching software, the FSS product enables service providers to offer "Five'9'" availability for their switches. The product includes multiple next generation capabilities to ensure that it is more feature rich and offers enhanced scalability in addition to the redundancy. A few customers are already using the feature.

"It gives us great pride in announcing the High-Availability feature for our Layer-2 Ethernet Switching software suite. This also has the distinction of being the industry's only Layer-2 Ethernet software suite with this capability. By using our path breaking product, networks can become more resilient and equipment manufacturers and operators can improve their system maintenance and reduce network failures and downtime significantly," said, Mr. Ajay Gupta, Assistant Vice President & Head, Products Business at Flextronics Software Systems.

"We expect the product to find great demand in enterprise edge and service provider Ethernet switching gear segments," he added.

The High-Availability capability of the FSS Layer-2 Ethernet switching solutions will be offered as an additional option that can be scaled into the existing core protocol capabilities of a network. This technology innovation will make it possible to upgrade current equipment being used by vendors to provide high availability without having to undertake a full software overhaul.

The Layer-2 Ethernet Switching Software is a complete switching software suite comprising the following capabilities:

-- VLAN

-- Rapid Spanning Tree

-- Multiple Spanning Tree

-- Link Aggregation

-- IGMP Snooping

-- 802.1x authentication capabilities

FSS' datacomm products, earlier available under the FutureSoft brand, are mature, scalable, robust and standards-compliant implementations. These are platform independent and highly portable.

About Flextronics Software Systems (FSS)

Flextronics Software Systems (FSS) is a global leader in enabling the convergence of wireless, wireline and voice over IP networks. It provides licensable technologies and full spectrum services in the areas of voice over packet, IP multimedia subsystems (IMS), broadband, SS7 signaling, data communications, wireless and handset, billing, OSS and network management.

Please visit http://www.flextronicssoftware.com; http://www.futsoft.com.

Source: Business Wire

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