SBC Communications Inc. has selected Cisco Systems' 12000 Series router to cost-effectively build out a national 10-Gbit/sec OC-192 network to best meet the needs of its business customers today while laying a foundation for the creation and delivery of new services in the future.
The new backbone network, developed by an SBC subsidiary, will transport Internet-based services such as Dedicated Internet Access, SBC-Yahoo! DSL, and SBC-Yahoo! Dial. In addition, the network will serve as the foundation for new and emerging Internet-Protocol (IP) transport and access capabilities for SBC's business customers. SBC will use MPLS-based traffic engineering to optimize backbone utilization and help meet customer service level agreements.
"SBC has developed its national IP backbone network to accommodate surging IP traffic from our customers, while also helping us to reduce operational costs and establishing a foundation for future services," explains Eric Boyer, vice president of Network Planning and Engineering at SBC.
"We are very pleased to reach another milestone in our long term relationship with SBC by helping them build out a highly reliable and flexible OC-192 national backbone," adds Mike Volpi, senior vice president, Routing Technology Group at Cisco. "The Cisco 12000 Series router provides the highest reliability, the richest set of service enablers, the lowest total cost of ownership, and proven investment protection. This innovative combination of features and capabilities enables service providers like SBC to build the most competitive IP and MPLS networks."
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