Carrier Ethernet

Bharti Telesoft, a provider of integrated VAS solutions for mobile operators in emerging markets, has launched a path-breaking aggregation system that it said will transform operators’ ability to launch innovative new voice applications quickly and cost-effectively.Bharti Telesoft’s Aggregated Voice Applications Network (AVAN) enables operators to deliver voice-activated applications instantly, while optimizing the existing network. AVAN abstracts the operator’s core network ...

Global Capacity announced Friday it plans to pick up the U.S.-based subsidiary of Vanco PLC, left on the table when the London-based global VNO was acquired by Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in May 2008.Global expects to purchase Vanco Direct USA LLC (VDUL) for $15 million pending receipt of financing and federal regulatory approval. The transaction is expected to close in the ...

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) announced a new edge router, the ASR 9000, earlier this week, calling it the solution for the “Zettabyte Era.” But some still consider the new Carrier Ethernet product something of a mystery.That’s because, according to reports, Cisco failed to detail when it will deliver 400gbps of capacity per slot on the device, among other missing information.As previously ...

Edge routers are expanding their functionality — supporting a wider variety of both newer and legacy protocols and services, and bundling in new security features.This pumped-up functionality is largely in response to the fact that service providers are facing margin pressures due to declining wireline and wireless ARPU while at the same time being pushed to invest in more infrastructure ...

Overture Networks is pumping up the volume, but not the price per port, with a new Carrier Ethernet aggregation solution.The new ISG 6000 sits at the central office or a point of presence to do first-level aggregation.Chip Redden, who’s in charge of marketing at Overture, noted that before introducing the ISG 6000 this week, the company had an existing aggregation ...