Riverstone recently introduced a router that promises to deliver Ethernet services to business customers while maintaining compatibility with legacy network infrastructure.
The Riverstone 15008 Ethernet Edge Router is targeted at providers of Ethernet business services, and supports IPv6 as well as Layer 2 Virtual Private LAN Services as well as Layer 3 MPLS-based VPN services. The box also supports Packet over SONET and ATM interfaces to connect with legacy equipment.
The goal of such gear from Riverstone is to handle services for companies that are as easy to provision as plugging a PC into a RJ-45 Ethernet LAN jack. But as pointed out in our recent coverage of the Supercomm show, a lack of standards for how Ethernet services are managed, provisioned and accounted for in carrier networks is stalling such rollouts.
Read more on that issue here.
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