BellSouth Moves to interLATA MPLS backbone

BellSouth said it is the first RBOC to utilize a region-wide, interLATA MPLS backbone. The BellSouth Regional IP Backbone (BRIB), which has POPs in all major areas of the BellSouth territory, uses RFC 2547 compliant MPLS-architecture and other MPLS mechanisms to provide control of end-to-end services, traffic redundancy and immediate expansion capabilities. The BRIB also allows BellSouth to offer and improve advanced end-to-end information services such as recently announced BellSouth Managed Network VPN Service and upcoming VoIP solutions. Currently, BellSouth is routing all of its Dedicated Internet Access and DSL-based Internet services traffic over the new backbone. BellSouth is using Juniper Networks’ T640 and M160 platforms at the network core to manage the flow of customer IP traffic throughout BellSouth’s region, with three central hubs located in Miami, Atlanta and New Orleans. In addition, BellSouth has adopted the Cisco 10000 and 12000 Series IP/MPLS platforms to aggregate customer traffic and ensure each customer receives required service attributes such as QoS, security, accounting, routing policies and VPN policy.
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