LONDON -- Data Connection Limited (DCL), the leading provider of communications protocol software, today announced the successful completion of the rigorous evaluation of DC-BGP, its BGP routing software, by BT Exact, BT's research, technology and IT operations business. DC-BGP forms part of DCL's IP Routing Suite, and has been designed specifically to meet the reliability, scalability and extensibility requirements of today's Internet and Next Generation Networks. DC-BGP also supports advanced features including virtual routing and BGP/MPLS VPNs (RFC 2547).

The full report, which is available on request from DCL, shows that DC-BGP passed all of the tests, and had all the functionality expected. In addition, the report singles out the following results for special mention, as each exceeds the requirements stated in BT Exact's white paper on Core Router Requirements and puts DC-BGP's scalability well beyond current requirements.

DC-BGP is a fully portable, source code solution that can be easily integrated with DC-MPLS and DCL's other IP Routing protocol stacks (including DC-OSPF and DC-ISIS), or can be used on its own, or with third-party products. An optional, highly scalable Routing Table Manager component provides a flexible policy engine to control sharing of routing information with other protocols (typically sharing between an IGP and EGP).

DCL's IP Routing suite supports Virtual Routing, with different routing tables for different users. DC-BGP develops this further with a VPN Manager component for providing RFC 2547 BGP/MPLS VPNs. The VPN Manager extends the routing policy rules, for example, providing an intelligent and efficient solution for maintaining private per-VPN routing information alongside shared internet routes.

DC-BGP also supports non-stop forwarding, distribution of routing tables to multiple locations with distributed processing and no single point of failure, and scaling to many thousands of independent routing tables, as required by Virtual Routers and BGP/MPLS VPNs.

"Proven conformance, performance and scalability are critical in the evaluation of routing protocol software," said Dr. Tony Dann, head of IP test and evaluation at BT Exact. "Our testing shows that DC-BGP's performance exceeds the requirements of today's routers, and demonstrates its suitability for next generation devices."

Ben Miller, VP Sales and Marketing, Protocol Software, said: "BT Exact is fast becoming the organization our industry goes to for independent measurement of performance of network protocol software and devices. We are delighted that it has validated the conformance and scalability of DC-BGP under its rigorous test environment."

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