Broadview Networks selects White Rock for metro network upgrade

June 1, 2006 Richardson, TX -- Broadview Networks has selected White Rock Networks' VLX2020 Optical Transport Systems to upgrade its core optical network in several Northeastern markets.

The VLX2020 replaces Broadview's legacy cross-connect systems, allowing better management of network traffic growth and establishing a new lower level of monthly network operating costs, confirm Broadview representatives. In addition, the VLX2020 increases hub site aggregation capacity and delivers Ethernet-based services with considerable space and power savings, delivering operating efficiencies that legacy cross-connect systems cannot provide.

"Broadview's transport network has grown organically and via acquisition, but we are outgrowing it," reports Ken Shulman, Broadview's chief technology officer. "It was time to increase capacity, replace earlier generation gear so we can provide Ethernet-based services and lower monthly network operating costs, especially those associated with co-location," he says. "The VLX2020 seems to excel in cost, footprint, consumed power, and ease of operation, but it also provides the TDM and Ethernet traffic grooming and aggregation capabilities that we need to run an efficient network."

"Up-speeding a metro network while also collapsing DCS and transport elements at hubbing locations into a single system is a major Capex and Opex gain for carriers, and it has a fairly short payback," adds Paul Forzisi, vice president of marketing at White Rock Networks. "Making that same network ready to deliver the Ethernet-based services adds yet another layer of operational ease and efficiency."

The VLX2020 combines a SONET ADM, a small/medium-office digital cross-connect system (DCS), and an edge Ethernet aggregation platform in a single package. It offers a large (160-Gbit/sec) non-blocking broadband (STS-1) matrix plus optional 5-Gbit/sec or 10-Gbit/sec wideband (VT1.5) matrices, together with integrated Ethernet Layer 2 aggregation and support for multiple optical UPSR and BLSR rings. Only two rack units high, the VLX2020 consumes substantially less power than competing products, say company representatives, and it takes up just a fraction of the rack space.

The VLX2020 and other members of White Rock's family of optical access, transport, and aggregation products will be on display next week at GlobalComm 2006 in booth # 20048.