ANDOVER, Mass. -- Charlotte’s Web Networks, a leading provider of core routers for the IP infrastructure, today announced an industry first by providing Virtual Router (VR) capabilities in a core router. The Virtual Router effectively creates the resiliency of two independent routers within a single Aranea-1 chassis.The Aranea-1 Virtual Router support provides considerable cost savings by reducing required rack space and lowering power requirements in POPs.The Virtual Router functionality, available with the release of the AraneOS 3.0 software, utilizes separate Routing Engine Modules (REMs) that independently control an arbitrary subset of I/O slots. The virtual routers share a common redundant switching fabric, thus ensuring a high level of availability.This unique feature is being demonstrated at Supercomm 2002 in the MPLSForum booth (# 11559) and in the Charlotte’s Web Networks booth (# 22338). The virtual router support enables the Aranea-1, to act as both a Provider's core router (P) and Provider's edge router (PE) in the MPLS interoperability network topology. In a separate release:Charlotte’s Web Networks, a leading provider of core routers for the IP infrastructure, and MAnet GmbH, a large Internet Service Provider in Germany, today announced the successful deployment of the Aranea-1 Core Router. The MAnet installation includes multiple Aranea-1 routers with a mix of SDH and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and the carrier-class AraneOS Routing Software including BGP and MPLS protocol support.MAnet GmbH, with its parent company MVV Energy AG, offers Internet access via the existing electrical infrastructure (Power Line). MAnet GmbH operates one of the fastest SDH network in Germany with up to 2.5 Gbit/s transmission speed. Currently the network has more than a 40,000 household potential capacity. With the completion of the backbone by the end of 2002, the planned capacity will reach up to 125,000 households. Following the success at Manheim, MVV is expanding the network to other cities throughout Germany.“The Aranea-1 was introduced into the MAnet network in December 2001 and has proven the stability and high performance required for both core and metro IP Networks,” says Gideon Kaempfer, CTO at Charlotte’s Web Networks.Charlotte’s Web Networks Ltd.For more information on Supercomm 2002, please visit: Supercomm Special