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Riverstone Networks to deliver advanced Ethernet business services
Completel Europe N.V. , one of France's most influential alternative carriers, has selected products from Riverstone Networks, Inc. to upgrade their carrier Ethernet network to deliver Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) to their business customers nationwide, according to the company press release.
VPLS allows customer sites to communicate over the WAN as if they were connected via a private Ethernet LAN. Using VPLS, Completel's business customers will experience greater network availability and will be able to enjoy intra-company networks that look and act the same across all of a company's office sites.
Completel will use Riverstone's Gigabit Ethernet MPLS cards and RapidOS software to upgrade more than 50 Riverstone RS 8600 multi-service metro routers and RS 38000 metro core routers already deployed throughout their network.
"With more than 850 buildings connected with Ethernet, Completel is the leading carrier on the LAN-to-LAN Ethernet market in France. To keep up with the demand for LAN-to-LAN service, we needed to increase the scalability of our existing Ethernet network," said Jean Marie Le Monze, CTO of Completel. "By upgrading our Ethernet edge switches to MPLS, we are able to offer a more reliable, scaleable nationwide network that supports multi-point Ethernet VPNs and other new services. Riverstone's leadership in VPLS and its experience in delivering layer 2 MPLS solutions made the decision easy."
"Riverstone Networks is helping to lead the development of the standards for VPLS and is delivering VPLS solutions that help carriers such as Completel provide new, revenue-generating services for their customers," said Steve Whipps, General Manager and Vice President of Riverstone Networks, EMEA. The International Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently adopted a VPLS implementation known as the Lasserre-vkompella draft that was co-authored by Marc Lasserre, Chief Network Architect for Riverstone Networks.
Source: Riverstonenet.com
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