Cisco Pushes Ethernet Over MPLS

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2001--Building on its established portfolio of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) product offerings, Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced its Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) metro-based network solution developed on the Cisco 7600 Optical Services Router (OSR) platform, the high-performance, IP services-optimized router designed for service providers.

To highlight the benefits of MPLS in general, and EoMPLS for metro aggregation specifically, Cisco also announced today that it is participating in the EoMPLS technology demonstration at the InteropNet Labs (iLabs) at Networld + Interop 2001 Las Vegas, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, May 6 through May 11. The iLabs is N+I's test bed addressing advanced protocol development and vendor interoperability, and has been instrumental in the development and interoperability testing of MPLS, as well as many other networking technology standards.

"We have installed Cisco's EoMPLS functionality in our test network and have evaluated its functionality," said Steve Baker, Chief Technology Officer of 360networks. "Based on this evaluation, as well as our confidence in Cisco's proven ability to deliver MPLS technology in a variety of products, we intend to deploy Cisco's EoMPLS in our network to meet our customers needs for transparent LAN services."

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