Marconi Corporation has been awarded a $9 million contract to supply additional BXR-48000 multiservice switch-routers to the U.S. Federal government. The contract also includes installation services. The new routers will be used in a different Federal Government network and by a different department than the currently deployed BXR-48000 multiservice switch-routers, which the US Department of Defense purchased for its ATM network last year. Marconi also said that the federal government is currently evaluating the platform’s IP/MPLS capabilities.
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- In September 2002, Marconi announced that the U.S. Department of Defense had purchased the BXR-48000 switch-router to transport data at up 10 Gbps using ATM. In January 2003, the U.S. Department of Defense became the first customer for Marconi’s 10 Gbps (OC-192c/STM-64) ATM port card, which supports Type 1 encryption.
In July 2003, Marconi demonstrated the encryption of IP and ATM data at 10 Gbps rates on its BXR-48000 multiservice switch router. The company says that at present only ATM will support the encryption of IP packet and TDM traffic at 10 Gbps rates, while IP traffic over Ethernet is limited to encryption rates of 100 Mbps.
