RAD Rolls Out Series of Carrier-Class Intelligent CLEs

For Next Generation Networks Tel Aviv, Israel (PROTEXT) - Devices Offer End-to-End CoS/QoS Support for Multiple Services. Reduced Cost of "Access" Ownership for Service Providers. RAD Data Communications will be showing new products and enhancements to its ACE(TM) family of Intelligent ATM-based CLEs as part of its growing line of Accessware(TM) for Next Generation Networks. Products being shown for the first time at Telecom Geneva include the ACE-2002(TM) Access Concentrator and an upgraded ACE-101(TM) Interworking and Demarc device. The products support CoS/QoS functionality, including mapping of IP to ATM along with traffic monitoring and shaping. They also feature voice and transparent LAN transport. Future additions to the Accessware line -- based on the popular FCD platform -- include an integrated access device with Frame Relay performance monitoring and E1 line loopback. ACE-2002: Multiservice Access Concentrator and ATM NTU RAD's ACE-2002 supports multiservice interworking over ATM and traffic concentration of transparent LAN services -- including 10/100BaseT and IP -- in addition to CES (circuit emulation system). The device offers end-to-end Quality of Service assurances, featuring elaborate ATM traffic management and engineering functionality as well as ATM monitoring and maintenance capabilities -- 1.610 OAM flows. These attributes enable service providers and their customers to implement and monitor Service Level Agreements for various service categories. IP CoS to ATM QoS in the ACE Family For the moment, "best effort" public IP networks do not support the end-to-end Quality of Service mechanisms inherent in ATM that are necessary for delivering high quality multimedia applications (voice and video) or other applications requiring priority treatment. For those carriers and service providers that employ ATM as a backbone for running IP traffic, this indeed is a major consideration. RAD's ACE family now offers a solution for mapping different types of LAN traffic to ATM's QoS based on using the Type of Service (ToS) field in the IP header. This powerful combination assures smooth integration of popular IP- based applications with public ATM services. Maximizing Fiber: ATM over WDM Carriers seeking to maximize their investment in fiber infrastructure are turning to Wave Division Multiplexing technology, which supports the transport of multiple channels over a single fiber strand. RAD will show the ACE's new Wave Division Multiplexing module, successfully tested at Broadband Year 99, enabling service providers to save on provisioning fiber in the Local Loop. Standard IMA Bridges Gap Between E1/T1 and E3/T3 Links Rising bandwidth demand is creating a headache for many enterprise network managers whose E1/T1 links are bursting at the seams but whose traffic requirements don't yet justify paying for expensive E3/T3 circuits. At Telecom Geneva, RAD will be unveiling an integrated IMA module for the ACE-101 that supports ATM Forum standard Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (Version 1.1) for customizing bandwidth between E1/T1 and E3/T3 speeds. "Service providers, ISPs and their customers are scrambling to address the problem caused by expanding demand for more bandwidth," says Holtz. "Since Fractional E3/T3 lines are not universally available or affordable, the only cost-effective and scalable Fractional E3/T3 solution is standard IMA," he explains. "The ACE-101's new IMA module delivers incremental bandwidth on demand with all the benefits of end-to-end ATM Quality of Service and traffic shaping." RAD Data Communications designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of high quality data communications and telecommunications product solutions for carriers, service providers and corporate networks. cRAD is a member of the $320 million RAD Group of companies, a world leader in networking and internetworking product solutions. ots Original Text Service: RAD Data Communications Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Ilan Seidner Director of Marketing Communications of RAD Data Communications +972-3-6458107, or ilan@rad.co.il Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial service providing distribution of press releases from clients, who are identified in the text of Protext reports and who bear full responsibility for their contents. PROTEXT