Fujitsu Boosts Flashwave 4500

RICHARDSON, Texas -- Fujitsu Network Communications Inc., a leading supplier of IT and networking solutions, today announced several new improvements added to its FLASHWAVER 4500 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP) that further extend its ability to transport Ethernet services more efficiently across a SONET-based infrastructure. These new service transport capabilities include support for Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) and Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) to enable efficient transport of 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps and Gigabit Ethernet services. Support for Four Fiber - Bidirectional Line Switched Ring (4F-BLSR) applications at an OC-192 rate provides additional capacity and a highly robust protection option for service providers. All of these improvements can be ordered immediately.

"Fujitsu and our carrier customers share a common goal of creating an Ethernet service that is as easy to deploy as private line services, such as DS1 and DS3," said George Chase, group president and chief operating officer for Fujitsu Network Communications. "The enhancements we've made to the FLASHWAVE 4500 platform deliver the power to make that possible, in a manner that's highly bandwidth efficient, operationally simple and well-suited for today's complex networks."

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. (FNC)