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Riverstone Networks End-to-End Traffic Management Implementation
White Paper Riverstone Networks comprehensive traffic management implementation builds on years of experience gained in working with carriers on some of the largest and most complex Ethernet deployments in support of both business and residential services... [10 Apr 2008]
Riverstone’s “Hitless Protection System”: Hot Failover for IP Routers
White Paper Riverstone’s Hitless Protection System (HPS) increases router and network uptime on carrier networks, providing carrier-class hot failover characteristics similar to SONET and circuit switched voice networks. [24 Feb 2004]
Accounting for Profitability: Riverstone’s Lightweight Flow Accounting Protocol
White Paper This paper is intended to provide a full introduction to the central capabilities of Riverstone’s accounting architecture. The paper will also explain how service providers can use Riverstone’s capabilities to improve their network management and... [24 Feb 2004]
Riverstone Networks 15K Pseudo-Wire Emulation Statement of Direction
White Paper Riverstone Networks will introduce PWE functionality in phases across the 15K product line. As Ethernet takes its place as the access and aggregation infrastructure of choice, and as carriers cap their investment in legacy TDM, ATM, and Frame Relay... [10 Apr 2008]
Terms and conditions but no date for Riverstone IPO
News Riverstone is one of four subsidiaries set up in February by internet equipment manufacturer Cabletron Systems to enable it to grow faster in key markets and compete more effectively with rivals such as Cisco. [06 Nov 2000]
Providing Top-Notch Service with the Riverstone WAN
White Paper Riverstone identifies three critical characteristics of the successful service provider: footprint, speed, and aggregation. These critical factors are discussed in terms of the Riverstone Networks solution. [24 Feb 2004]
Hardware Rate Limiting with Riverstone Networks
White Paper To allow service providers (SPs) to effectively manage bandwidth, Riverstone's RS switch routers offer an extremely powerful feature called Hardware Rate Limiting (HRL). Metro SPs can use this feature to create tiered levels of service, offering... [24 Feb 2004]
A Riverstone Networks / NextHop Success Story
White Paper The challenge in all this for Riverstone was to provide stable, proven routing protocols to networking companies that are building out the infrastructure of the wired world. Internet traffic explodes in volume and complexity every day. [30 Oct 2004]
Next-Generation Switch Routers RapidOS Powers the Riverstone Solution
White Paper Now that networks and carrier expectations have evolved and grown, solutions such as the Riverstone RS router platforms are in demand. In the dawn of the age of routers, a router was little more than a small computer running a generic operating... [24 Feb 2004]
Testing Riverstone RS MPLS Interoperability with Cisco GSR and Juniper M Series Routers
White Paper This paper demonstrates the interoperability of the Riverstone RS Router's MPLS implementation with that of two important core routers: the Cisco Systems GSR and Juniper Networks M series routers. MPLS interoperability is an important concern for... [24 Feb 2004]
e-QoS Solutions for Service Providers Using Riverstone Networks Switch Routers
White Paper Today's networks need to carry a variety of traffic with expectations of service that vary from application to application. This is commonly called a "differentiated service" (DIFFSERV) Quality of Service (QoS) Strategy. [24 Feb 2004]
Command and Control Your Network: Monitoring and Security on the Riverstone Platform
White Paper Recent events have shown that the old adage, "What you don’t see can’t hurt you," is true. As with many things in life, this applies to networking as well. Not being able to see the port scans being run against your network does not mean that they... [24 Feb 2004]
Network Address Translation
White Paper Riverstone Networks' NAT is a wire-speed solution, which means it is realized in hardware rather than in software. NAT is supported on all Riverstone platforms. With the exponential growth of the Internet, a shortage of IP addresses is becoming a... [24 Feb 2004]
Completel's National VPLS Service Deployment
White Paper By upgrading their Riverstone RS metro routers to MPLS, Completel are able to offer a more reliable, scalable nationwide network based on VPLS that supports multipoint Ethernet VPNs and other new services. [10 Apr 2008]
Frame Relay Design Guide
White Paper Example configurations are also given using the Riverstone platform. This paper explains theory and principles behind frame relay and building networks with frame. Fundamentals related to frame relay are covered before moving on to network topology... [12 Mar 2008]
