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France Telecom and Atrica Jointly-Develop a New Age of VPLS Services with Industry's First VPLS-TE Capability
September 05, 2005
Santa Clara, CA and Paris, France - September 5, 2005 - France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunication carriers, and Atrica™, the Carrier Ethernet Company™,
today announced the successful development and implementation of a new age of Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) with their revolutionary Virtual Private LAN Service with Traffic Engineering
(VPLS-TE) capability. Jointly-developed by France Telecom and Atrica, this important industry advancement adds carrier-class traffic engineering attributes to standard VPLS capabilities to
deliver carrier-class, traffic engineered E-LAN services with hard Service Level Agreements (SLAs) per application. A powerful solution for multi-site any-to-any connectivity, the new VPLS-TE
based E-LAN services enable service providers to set and tune any specific bandwidth per each end user site per application, while utilizing guaranteed pre-provisioned - yet flexibly controlled
- core bandwidth resources. France Telecom and Atrica converged on this technical solution, the industry's first VPLS-TE capability. Based on a co-developed algorithm, VPLS-TE will enable
France Telecom to guarantee to its clients performance-based solutions for LAN-to-LAN connectivity. This advancement will furthermore allow carriers to develop, market, and support new
revenue-generating E-LAN service models to meet their customers' growing demands for flexible LAN-to-LAN connectivity for real-time multimedia services such as voice and video applications.
The standard VPLS-based solutions defined by the IETF are best effort services that don't allow carriers to guarantee SLAs or Quality of Service (QoS). These VPNs specify only full
mesh, any-to-any connectivity, offering little to no flexibility in connectivity models. In contrast, Atrica's bandwidth-conditioned VPLS-TE delivers guaranteed SLAs and hard QoS with sub-50ms
service protection and is user-configurable, based on different traffic patterns. This flexible connectivity model allows a carrier to define how much bandwidth they want to reserve for the core,
and how much should be reserved for specific VPNs, which can significantly improve bandwidth optimization and support their own unique revenue models.
The bandwidth-guaranteed, flexible VPLS-TE service offered by the jointly developed VPLS-TE capability incorporates ingress and egress policing at every point and direction,
perator-configurable ingress and egress bandwidth per site per application, and operator-configurable core bandwidth. Its broadcast policing capability allows carriers to control broadcast
traffic, further optimizing the performance of the network.
"To meet our customers' growing demands for flexible LAN-to-LAN connectivity for advanced, bandwidth-intensive real-time multimedia services, it is critical that we are able to
control and configure the amount of bandwidth reserved per each site participating in the same E-LAN service. We must also be able to control the amount of bandwidth that is being allocated to
that specific E-LAN in the core of the network, while delivering hard QoS and bandwidth guarantees per site and per application" said Alain Vellard, director of research and development on
access networks for France Telecom.
"Our new VPLS-TE capability continues Atrica's tradition of 'pushing the technology envelope' for Carrier Ethernet technology," said Nan Chen, vice president of marketing for Atrica.
"We recognized the value that adding carrier-class traffic engineering attributes to standard VPLS capabilities would bring to carriers and service providers as they strive to deliver new
real-time voice and video multimedia services."
About France Telecom
France Telecom is one of the world's leading telecommunications carriers, with more than 126 million customers on the five continents (220 countries and territories) at
March 31, 2005 and consolidated revenues of 46.16 billion euros for 2004 (under IFRS GAAP). For the Q1 2005, consolidated revenues totaled 11.62 billion euros (under IFRS GAAP).
Through its major international brands, including Orange, Wanadoo, Equant and GlobeCast, France Telecom provides businesses, consumers and other carriers with a complete portfolio of solutions
that spans local, long-distance and international telephony, wireless, Internet, multimedia, data, and broadcast.
France Telecom is the second-largest wireless operator and Internet access provider in Europe, and a world leader in telecommunications solutions for multinational corporations.
France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is listed on the Paris and New York stock exchanges.
About Atrica
A technology visionary and industry pioneer, Atrica provides a full range of Carrier Ethernet transport solutions to service providers delivering Metro Ethernet services. Atrica's
Carrier Ethernet product suite combines the benefits of Ethernet technology - including its low-cost, proven scalability, ease of management, and ubiquity in the enterprise market - with
innovations in traffic engineering, service management, TDM over Ethernet, and scalability to meet the stringent demands of next-generation transport networks. With Atrica's Carrier Ethernet
solutions, service providers can deliver the ultimate broadband triple play services experience to their business and residential customers over a single universal transport network, with
guaranteed SLAs, sub-50ms network-wide resiliency, TDM traffic support, and point-and-click, centralized OAM&P. Privately held, Atrica is based in Santa Clara, Calif., with R&D facilities in
Israel and the Untied States and business development and sales offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The company has received over $134 million in funding to date,
from world-class venture capital firms, industry leaders, and seven global service providers. For more information, visit Atrica on the Web at www.atrica.com.
Atrica, ASPEN and The Carrier Ethernet Company are registered trademarks and trademarks of Atrica Ireland Limited in the United States and other countries.
Related Company:
Atrica, Inc.
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