Equipe Communications demonstrated ATM to MPLS Network Interworking Function (IWF) for its flagship product, the Equipe 3200 (E3200). The capability could be used for non-disruptive migration of existing Frame Relay and ATM traffic onto a packet-based MPLS network in a mixed vendor environment. Equipe’s IWF demonstration included a Juniper Networks M-Series Router, Cisco GSR and Lucent CBX 500 switches. The demo network showed that the E3200 allows Frame Relay and ATM circuits, which originate and terminate on Lucent equipment, to transit an MPLS core network based on equipment from either Juniper Networks or Cisco, while fully preserving the existing operations and provisioning tools based on Lucent’s Navis management platform. Equipe described the demonstration as the first such industry event.
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- Equipe’s E3200 platform is positioned for transitioning large-scale service providers from ATM to MPLS while leveraging emerging optical technologies. The platform provides 200 Gbps of scalable capacity for today’s ATM-based network infrastructures, at speeds from OC-3/STM-1 to OC-192/STM-64.