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White Rock Networks Adds Multi-Service Optical Access Platform

Posted on: Monday, 21 June 2004, 06:00 CDT

White Rock Networks has launched the industry's lowest cost, OC-48 SONET-based Optical Access platform - the VLX2006(TM)- for the delivery of both native DS1/DS3 and FastE/GbE services in a carrier-class, environmentally hardened package.

The first OC-48 ADM under $10K, the VLX2006 is also the first to offer fully protected Ethernet ports for the transport of business-critical traffic. The unique Ethernet protection allows carriers to offer data and video transport with the same carrier-class reliability that has always been expected of traditional TDM traffic.

The VLX2006 can remotely "right size" GbE access pipes as well as provide full Layer 2 Ethernet switching. Each GbE fiber interface can support subscribed customer rates from 512 Kbps to 1 Gbps allowing the carrier to sell end-customers just the amount of bandwidth they need today. But as their customers' bandwidth needs increase, the carriers can increase the subscribed data rate without ever making a site visit, resulting in a significant increase in profitability over today's manual solutions.

The VLX2006 is fully compatible with White Rock's VLX2020(R) OC-48/OC-192 SONET Transport Platform, which is also being enhanced to add matching Layer 2 Ethernet switching capabilities. These enhancements allow a VLX2020 to act as a hub node for multiple VLX2006-based optical access rings while simultaneously providing both TDM and Ethernet aggregation in a compact, low-cost package, reducing both CO Edge-router and Digital Cross Connect system (DCS) costs.

"Ethernet is not only a key service for business customers but has become business critical for many of them. However, current fiber-based delivery solutions are too expensive and do not offer the same degree of reliability that is commonplace with legacy TDM services," said Lonnie Martin, Founder and CEO of White Rock. "The VLX2006 integrates truly carrier-class, fully protected Ethernet transport and switching as well as providing native support for legacy DS1 and DS3 service delivery in a single low-cost package. This allows facilities-based carriers to offer more services at a lower cost over their fiber networks, improving their ROI and bottom line results."

When combined with White Rock's VLX2020, the VLX2006 allows carriers to reduce the costs of both their Metro Access and Metro Transport networks for both the legacy and Ethernet services, pointed out Martin. "The VLX2006 may be the last Customer Access platform a carrier needs to deploy services to a business premise."

White Rock will introduce the VLX2006 at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 22-24 in Chicago, Illinois (Booth # 11803 at McCormick Place).

About White Rock Networks

White Rock Networks (www.whiterock.com) provides carriers with a family of next-generation optical transport systems that enable the cost-effective delivery of high-speed services in metro areas. The company's innovative building-block architecture provides carriers with "step-function" improvements in their capital and operating costs, as well as deployment flexibility in serving a variety of metro customers.

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