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Riverstone Networks End-to-End Traffic Management Implementation

whitepaper 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...

Tags: ethernet, qos, riverstone, scalability

[10 Apr 2008]

Riverstone Networks 15K Pseudo-Wire Emulation Statement of Direction

whitepaper 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...

Tags: ethernet, deployments, atm, ethernet

[10 Apr 2008]

Completel's National VPLS Service Deployment

whitepaper 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.

Tags: optical networking, ethernet, facilities, fibre

[10 Apr 2008]

Software Considerations for High Availability Ethernet Infrastructure

whitepaper However, only a few vendors have developed state-of-the-art, reliability enhancing hardware and software designs, and even fewer, if not Riverstone alone, have implemented extensive failure prevention and rapid recovery mechanisms in software.

Tags: ethernet, ethernet, enhance, distributed

[10 Apr 2008]

Frame Relay Design Guide

whitepaper 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...

Tags: frame relay, frame, relay, frame relay

[12 Mar 2008]

Introduction to Multicast Routing

whitepaper This paper introduces basic multicast routing concepts and theory including the differences between unicast, broadcast and multicast traffic, multicast addressing, IGMP, DVMRP, PIM DM, PIM SM, Shared Trees vs.

Tags: multicasting, differences, routing, multicast

[12 Mar 2008]

MPLS, Frame Relay, and Ethernet

whitepaper The significance of Frame Relay/Ethernet integration must be understood in economic, not technological, terms. Frame Relay (and by this we mean Frame services backed by ATM aggregation) represents the mainstream of modern business data networking...

Tags: frame relay, frame, ethernet, networking

[22 Nov 2007]

How 10 Gigabit Ethernet, RPR and MPLS Work Together: The Future of Metro Area Networking

whitepaper Over the last year, three new and particularly promising technologies have emerged at the forefront of Metro networking. The three are Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS), 10-Gigabit Ethernet, and Resilient Packet Ring (RPR).

Tags: ethernet, deployment, metro, label switching

[28 Oct 2007]

Spanning Tree: Death is Not an Option

whitepaper This article is an overview of the progression of both the spanning tree algorithm and recent modifications that have made it an important technology for todayÂ’s metro networks. Spanning Tree is a protocol with a life story.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, tree, protocol, life

[19 Jul 2007]

End-to-End QoS: Challenges and Practical Solutions

whitepaper The deployment of IP QoS promises to radically alter IP networking, both in terms of the types of application traffic that IP networks can carry and the types of services that carriers can offer. It promises to make IP a truly universal network...

Tags: quality of service, networking, qos, terms

[19 Jul 2007]

neosnetworks: Delivering "Liquid Bandwidth" Ethernet Services

whitepaper Neos chose Riverstone's Gigabit Ethernet service delivery platform over and above "legacy" systems to deliver "Liquid Bandwidth" services to carriers, ISP's, enterprises, and public sector customers across the UK.

Tags: bandwidth issues, service provider, ethernet, provider

[19 Apr 2005]

Utfors: Metro Broadband Services Using Gigabit Ethernet

whitepaper Utfors selected Riverstone RS routers for its Metro Ethernet service deployment. Recognizing that Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is the key to deploying successful Ethernet services, Utfors chose Riverstone as the market leader in metro MPLS...

Tags: ethernet, cost effective, ethernet, generation

[18 Apr 2005]

Metro Ethernet Network Case Study Brief

whitepaper Among the first deployments of its kind in Asia, Ntopia will enable KT to offer an extensive suite of IP-based services, including on-demand bandwidth provisioning, virtual private network (VPN) applications for home and office connectivity, and...

Tags: ethernet, provider, telecom, korea

[18 Apr 2005]

A Riverstone Networks / NextHop Success Story

whitepaper 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.

Tags: web protocols, routing, protocols, routing protocols

[30 Oct 2004]

Benhamou on Cisco - and setting the pace in networking

Benhamou on Cisco - and setting the pace in networking

News But Bay could not sustain that growth and Cabletron had to be restructured [most notably morphing into Enterasys and Riverstone]. Networking industry veteran Eric Benhamou, still chairman of 3Com and a Silicon Valley VC, has spoken out on why, over...

[29 Mar 2004]

Frame Relay & Ethernet - Unified with a Single MPLS Infrastructure

whitepaper In this paper, the focus is on the use of Martini tunneling to support both Frame Relay and Ethernet services in metropolitan networks. Part I of the paper discusses the state of Frame Relay deployments worldwide.

Tags: man, frame, ethernet, relay

[01 Mar 2004]

Riverstone’s “Hitless Protection System”: Hot Failover for IP Routers

whitepaper 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.

Tags: high availability, carrier, router, failover

[24 Feb 2004]

Accounting for Profitability: Riverstone’s Lightweight Flow Accounting Protocol

whitepaper 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...

Tags: local area networks (lan), riverstone, billing, service providers

[24 Feb 2004]

Next-Generation Switch Routers RapidOS Powers the Riverstone Solution

whitepaper 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...

Tags: switching, availability, demand, operating system

[24 Feb 2004]

Hardware Rate Limiting with Riverstone Networks

whitepaper 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...

Tags: switching, providers, bandwidth, service level agreements

[24 Feb 2004]

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