NetPlane Ships OSPF Solution

WESTWOOD, Mass. -- NetPlane™ Systems, the protocol software business of Mindspeed Technologies™, announced today that it has begun shipping the industry’s first high-availability implementation of OSPF(Open Shortest Path First) routing, the most widely deployed network protocol. The high-availability OSPF solution is part of OPTIRoute™, NetPlane’s IP routing software suite designed specifically for carrier-class networking equipment. Four OEMs have already purchased the new release for equipment they are developing ranging from core routers, cable modem termination systems, to next generation optical switches. “No IP routing software solution provider today has the high-availability feature for any routing protocol. With our introduction of high-availability OSPF, we’ve moved IP routing to the next level and taken a big step forward towards providing economical, carrier-class reliability on the Internet,” said Deepak Shahane, vice president and general manager of NetPlane Systems. “OSPF is, and will continue to be, a critical enabler of sophisticated network control in the Internet. This is evidenced by the number of evolutionary enhancements to OSPF that include, Traffic Engineering (TE), optical networking and MPLS/GMPLS support,“ Shahane said. “Our solution saves carriers from having to propagate changes throughout a network in the case of a hardware or software failure by localizing error recovery. By preserving traffic flows through a network, this enhances overall stability. In the final analysis, it saves critical time and system resources that would be required for routing recalculations and, more importantly, network re-convergence which can take longer than time sensitive applications can tolerate.” OPTIRoute with high-availability OSPF is architected to work in both centralized and highly distributed environments for all applications, from edge to core. It offers support for 1:1 (the most common redundancy scheme), as well as 1:N and M:N models. Its architecture ensures that the information in the backup is current with what’s in the primary, eliminating the need to wait for OSPF re-stabilization. It also provides virtual routing support and offers integration with MPLS/GMPLS functionality.NetPlane Systems Inc.