Resilient Packet Ring Alliance Formed

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cisco Systems, Dynarc Inc., Lantern Communications, Luminous Networks and Nortel Networks today announced the formation of an alliance to support the standardization and market adoption of Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) technology for metropolitan fiber networks. This new protocol will allow metropolitan area service providers to create high-speed, survivable ring networks optimized for IP and other packet data. Its adoption is particularly critical in light of the very rapid growth of packet data in the metropolitan space.

“Resilient Packet Ring technology will be an important part of new metropolitan data networks for Global Crossing. We feel that this architecture will bring significant efficiencies to our network by enabling us to more rapidly provision bandwidth to those customers who demand it while at the same time reducing our operational costs,” said Shannon Silvus, Chief Architect at Global Crossing, a prospective user of RPR technology.

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