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By Terri Gimpelson
The Edge, 11/28/01

Riverstone Networks Wednesday announced that cable operator Cox Communications will deploy hundreds of Riverstone RS metropolitan routers in all 28 of its U.S. points of presence.

The move is part of Cox's vision to build its own national, high-speed data provisioning system following Excite@Home's recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Excite is Cox's Internet infrastructure provider, but Cox is now building its own network to replace Excite, which is struggling to maintain service to its subscribers.

The multimillion-dollar deployment of Riverstone routers into this new network will take place over the next several months.

Cox vice president of data engineering, Jay Rollis says the company chose Riverstone for its reliability and ability to transition to emerging technologies like Multi-protocol Label Switching, Resilient Packet Ring and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Additionally, the company will be able to leverage existing ATM and SONET infrastructures.

Rollis says Riverstone's gear will allow his company to gain additional capacity and enhance network availability.

Cox will initially deploy RS 3000 metro access routers along with RS 8000 and 8600 multiservice metro routers. In addition, the company will deploy RS 38000 metro aggregation routers that are equipped with Riverstone's proprietary Hitless Protection System failover technology.

Cox offers high-speed Internet services, video, and in some markets, telephony. The company says it can provide download speeds up to 20 times faster than DSL. All connections are maintained by Cox's local network.

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