Riverstone Brings MPLS, Optics to Gigabit Ethernet

Riverstone Networks Inc. (www.riverstonenet.com) today unveiled its RS3000 next generation optical metropolitan access router, which extends traffic engineering to the network's edge.

Riverstone is the first gigabit Ethernet switch vendor to support MPLS, according to Edward Chang, senior director of product marketing, who describes the RS3000 as a melding of optical and gigabit Ethernet technology.

The new product, which is targeted at in-building and wide area service providers, offers 32 ports of 10/100 and has two expansion slots for DWDM, gigabit Ethernet, TDM, ATM, SONET or fast Ethernet.

The company's existing RS2000 product had just 16 ports. Other new features to Riverstone's product line introduced with the RS30000 are newer ASICs and MPLS to enable quality of service. The RS3000 supports bit level bandwidth control - or "bandwidth carving" - by port, application or user, says Chang. The box, which can sit in a multi-user building, provides a 100 mbps port to a building floor and that bandwidth can be carved into increments as small as 1 kbps.

"In addition, we can look deeper into that by user groups, so its lets you decide who gets what bandwidth," says Chang.

According to Riverstone, the new product has attracted a $2 million backlog of advance orders. Among the first users are in-building service provider Intellispace (www.intellispace.com) and gigabit Ethernet service provider Telseon (www.telseon.com).

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