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New Edge Networks Combines MPLS with ‘BigFoot’ Coverage
VANCOUVER, Wash. – (May 4, 2005) – New Edge Networks, a national provider of private broadband networks for businesses and carriers, today said it is combining MPLS technology with its “BigFoot” network that enables broadband network access at any business address in the United States and Canada.
New Edge Networks installed carrier-class Alcatel MPLS switches in each region of the country. The MPLS-based network core is combined with New Edge Networks’ expanded DSL, ATM, frame relay, and IP networks providing access throughout the United States and Canada. New Edge Networks calls its expanded broadband reach “BigFoot.”
Through BigFoot, New Edge Networks can provide DSL reach to about 80 percent of the business addresses served by almost 9,200 unique telephone company central offices in the United States and another 1,500 in Canada. Anywhere else where DSL is not available New Edge Networks can supplement frame relay, cable, or satellite access for building virtual private networks, or VPNs.
“Our current plan is to utilize MPLS as a key technological component to underpin our future network evolution,” said Dan Moffat, president and CEO of New Edge Networks. “It is our intent to converge our nationwide ATM and IP networks into a single core that is supported by a high availability MPLS engine.”
MPLS, short for Multi-Protocol Label Switching, enables businesses to consolidate and prioritize their communications – voice, video, and various grades of data communications – onto a single VPN. MPLS also allows each business location to communicate directly with any other site on a fully meshed multi-location network using New Edge Networks’ private backbone network, averting the public Internet altogether.
MPLS offers better control, is easier to manage, boosts reliability, and enhances security across a wide area network. It can provide an excellent migration path and method for improving the performance of frame relay and private line networks installed years ago. With MPLS, customers are able to prioritize their network traffic so business critical applications will have a higher service quality than e-mail or Web surfing.
MPLS-based VPNs provide customers various key benefits including: scalable any-to-any connectivity for communications; privacy and security equal to frame relay and ATM-based (Layer 2) VPNs; increased scalability to support large VPN deployments with hundreds to thousands of sites, and; Internet Protocol (IP) class of service with support for multiple classes of service within a VPN.
Network offerings from New Edge Networks currently include frame relay, frame relay over DSL, ATM over DSL, CPE-based VPNs, and network-based VPNs. New Edge Networks can design networks so data traffic averts the public Internet and remains private.
“We want to give customers the widest possible choice of broadband access solutions coupled with powerful networking solutions such as MPLS and work with them to determine what is best for their business applications,” Moffat said. “New Edge Networks is broadband access agnostic and it is network solution agnostic. We back this up with one neck to grab for installation and support anywhere in the U.S. and Canada.”
BigFoot enables businesses and carrier customers to use New Edge Networks for getting broadband access available from most major long-distance carriers, local telephone companies, cable, satellite and other communications providers in the United States and Canada. BigFoot helps eliminate the cost and complexity of managing multiple carriers, services, and geographies through a single-point of contact with New Edge Networks.
About New Edge Networks
New Edge Networks is a national provider of private multi-location broadband networks for business and carrier customers. Through its network facilities, New Edge Networks uses a wide variety of last-mile broadband access technologies (DSL, frame relay, ATM, cable, and satellite) for building wide area networks (WANs) or virtual private networks (VPNs) that reach 100 percent of all U. S. business locations. New Edge Networks’ product suite of managed WAN and VPN services received Frost & Sullivan’s Telecommunications Services 2005 Product of the Year Award. New Edge Networks is listed No. 28 on the 2004 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in America. The company’s Web site is www.newedgenetworks.com. Telephone: 1-360-693-9009.
Contact:
Sal Cinquegrani
(360) 906-9723
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