Sponsors: Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, and Tellabs
Date: Thursday, May 27, 2004
Time: 2:00 p.m. New York/ 7:00 p.m. London time
Overview:
The multiservice market has seen some incredible changes in the last twelve months – and for service providers, change is good.

RBOCs and other service providers are issuing major RFPs this year that mandate Frame Relay, ATM, B-RAS, and Ethernet – all in one package. To meet their needs, equipment vendors have standardized on MPLS as the unifying technology of choice for delivering revenue-generating applications to the edges of carrier networks and beyond, onto the customer premises.

These multiservice MPLS devices enable carriers to build network foundations that support the broadest mix of traffic ever, at cost points that support continued profitability. But building a “service edge” means much more than just transporting legacy traffic over an MPLS core. Vendors – including Alcatel, Ciena, Cisco, Hammerhead, Juniper, Nortel, and Tellabs – are vying for control of this burgeoning market with dense, flexible, multiservice MPLS platforms that not only offer an incredible range of interfaces, from sub-T1 Frame Relay all the way to Gigabit Ethernet, but also support any-to-any service interworking among them.

These new systems are made possible in no small part by the maturity (finally) of network processors, which have become extremely flexible and scaleable engines for handling packets, cells, and frames across a single chipset. This lets vendors focus on software features and stability rather than building the next fastest ASIC.

This webinar will discuss all of the multiservice issues that have a big impact for customers:

•What are the technologies behind the new platforms?
•What are the leading product capabilities that are setting the pace?
•What are the must-have capabilities and service sets?
•What can carriers do with these platforms?
•Are management capabilities keeping up with customer and carrier needs?
•How important is the underlying transport technology for platform capabilities?
•How do the products compare in terms of reliability, shelf densities, power consumption, architecture, service and management capabilities… and more?


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