Amber Networks Does TDM Demo Live at SUPERCOMM 2001

Amber Networks (www.ambernetworks.com) this week at SUPERCOMM 2001 will do what it says is the first live public demonstration of TDM private line service transported over an IP/MPLS network based on its edge routers.

"Service providers are looking to bring more revenue into IP networks," says Alex Dobrushin, vice president of marketing for Amber Networks. "There are benefits for emerging carriers only building IP networks, so they can tap additional revenue."

Adding TDM services to the IP mix can enable IP-only network operators to double their market opportunity, he says. For incumbents, he adds, this product helps cap investments in traditional networks and instead move those services to the new networks in which they're investing. No other router vendor offers the ability to do TDM over IP today, Dobrushin says.

The application was made possible by multiservice adaptation, advanced multilevel queuing and traffic engineering functions of the company's ASR2000edge routers, which were introduced at last year's SUPERCOMM show.

Amber Networks hasn't yet named any customers for the routers but was working with 15 carriers in trials and had shipped some products for revenue to customers, whose names the vendor would not disclose.

In this week's SUPERCOMM demo, Amber Networks will show interoperability of its edge routers with core routers from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and Avici Systems. Various CPE-based routers and IADs were used to deliver subscriber traffic.

Also at the show, Amber Networks will introduce a new edge router called the ASR2010 for low-density POPs. It offers the same capabilities as the company's 2020 model, but is smaller density and 30 percent cheaper than 2020, which sells for a starting price of about $150,000. Available now, the 2010 uses the same chassis and line cards as the 2020.

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