Cox, the fourth largest cable operator in the U.S., has selected CIENA’s ONLINE Metro and ONLINE Edge platforms to support data services on its multiservice broadband communications network. CIENA’s ONLINE platforms will be used to deliver video-on-demand, storage area networking and Gigabit Ethernet services. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- In June 2003, Cox began to move its long distance voice traffic onto its national IP backbone. Cox is using Nortel Networks’ Succession cable VoIP solution and Nuera Communications’ media gateways. The companies confirmed that this is the first packet trunking deployment by a cable operator in North America. Cox currently has some 750,000 voice customers being served over Nortel Networks DMS circuit switches and is handling more than 24 million calls per day. Cox has now deployed Nortel Networks Succession Communication Server 2000 superclass softswitch and has begun to move long distance traffic onto its national IP backbone. Cox is also using Nuera’s ORCA GX-21 and GX-8 VoIP media gateways.
- In May 2003, Juniper Networks announced that Cox Communications had deployed its T-series routing platforms in a national IP backbone. Juniper’s T320 platforms serve as peering points in Cox’s new IP backbone.