The Nokia ASR 2020 leased-line IP edge router for ANSI markets

November 16, 2001

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Nokia today launched the Nokia ASR 2020 leased-line IP router for ANSI service-provider markets, initially targeted at the US and Canada leased-line IP aggregation business. The Nokia ASR 2020 aggregates large volumes of leased line traffic in a compact form factor and delivers industry-leading 'five-nines' (99.999%) service availability. The Nokia ASR 2020 offers carrier-class fault tolerance, reliability and availability. Moreover, the Nokia ASR 2020 delivers multiservice network services, including Frame Relay and private lease line over IP/MPLS, and creates a new benchmark in density and scalability. Powered by the AmbOS(TM) fault tolerant operating system software, the Nokia ASR 2020 is designed to deliver SONET-grade service resiliency in IP networks. The AmbOS(TM) is the first router operating system to deliver full route state redundancy for Internet routing protocols including BGP, IS-IS, and OSPF. This redundancy yields aggregation routers that are always reachable, always available, and not impacted by component failures. The fault tolerance allows all services transported over layer 3 (IP) to achieve "five-nines" service availability. The Nokia ASR 2020 provides the scalability benchmark for the industry. It provides world-class densities regardless of whether the carrier needs to terminate FT1, T1 or T3 connections, offering for example more than 10,000 T1 ports in a standard seven-foot telco rack. The Nokia ASR 2020 is also equally scalable for termination of a large number of IP and Frame Relay logical subscribers. The inherent flexibility of the ASR 2020 allows carriers to deploy the equipment in central offices or large POPs (Points of Presence) as well as in high-capacity Mega POPs. "With the industry's leading 'five-nines' service availability and unequalled fault tolerance, the Nokia ASR 2020 helps tackle the critical point of failure problem in today's carrier leased-line aggregation business - by bringing true resiliency and reliability to IP networks," comments Mark Slater, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Broadband Systems, Nokia. "This product is the first step in bringing intelligence to the network edge." Nokia Corp.

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