Tokyo, November 28, 2000---Fujitsu Limited today announced commencement of worldwide marketing of its GeoStream R940 IP switching node, a key component for constructing IP networks with carrier-class ultra-high reliability. The new product, which will begin shipping next June, combines Fujitsu's advanced IP technology - cultivated over a decade of experience in developing advanced routers - and its proven high reliability technology from its long experience as a manufacturer of leading-edge digital switching systems for telecommunications carriers. Positioned as a major strategic product offering supporting its global IP network solutions business, the GeoStream R940 delivers on the promise of Reliable, Intelligent and Ubiquitous IP network capability.
The GeoStream R940 is being exhibited at the Fujitsu Solution Fair (Internet Business 21) at Tokyo International Forum between November 28 and 30, and at TELECOM ASIA 2000 at Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Center from December 4 to 9.
As the Internet has become an increasingly important business and social infrastructure, demands for higher reliability in carrier, public and corporate IP backbone systems using the Internet infrastructure have likewise increased. Designed to respond to this demand, the GeoStream R940 is an IP network product that offers the industry's highest standards in terms of reliability and availability.
Thanks to its flexible, fully redundant system configuration and high-speed system switch-over capability (about 50ms) for coping with failures or other incidents, the GeoStream R940 achieves an ultra-high availability rate of over 99.9999%*1. It also boasts excellent maintainability, allowing maintenance for all hardware modules and upgrading of software while the system is in operation. In addition, dedicated GeoStream Element Manager software incorporates a variety of management functions, including topology management, device status control, and failure and performance management.
Other key features of the GeoStream R940 include:
- High-speed, large-capacity transmission
- Achieves best-in-class 48 Mpps*2 full wired forwarding performance*3, thanks to 40Gbps switching capacity, making it suitable for future applications for large-scale networks.
- Will accommodate 2.4 Gbps POS (packet over SONET/SDH) interface, enabling high-speed backbone construction*4.
- Advanced IP functions
- Realizes high-speed IPv6 hardware routing processing.
- Supports full range of advanced IP functions, such as policy control (including filtering), the latest VPN functions, QoS and MPLS-TE*4
- All-IP network migration (future functions)
- In order to support construction and flexible migration to All-IP networks, future development of the GeoStream series will include provision of media gateway function to support IP network migration from legacy telephone networks, as well as a gateway function connecting to IMT-2000 mobile networks.
In developing the GeoStream R940 IP switching node, Fujitsu incorporated some findings from a research project on electronic money transmission commissioned by a nonprofit organization affiliated with Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
The GeoStream R940 is priced from 39.05 million yen (pre-tax) in Japan, and shipment will commence in June 2001. Fujitsu targets sales of 1,000 units worldwide in the next three years.
For detailed product information, see: http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/Telcom/products/products_menu.html
Notes:
*1 refers only to hardware failure based on full duplex configuration
*2 wire speed with 40 byte packets
*3 enables full wired-speed forwarding utilizing full capacity of transport interfaces, such as STM-1, 4, 16
*4 to be available from December 2001
MPLS-TE: Multiprotocol Label Switching - Traffic Engineering
** All company names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purpose only.
About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of Internet-
based information technology solutions for the global marketplace.
Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates worldwide --
including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting -- it had consolidated
revenues of 5.26 trillion yen (US$49.6 billion) in the fiscal year
ended March 31, 2000. Fujitsu's pace-setting technologies, world-
class computing and telecommunications platforms, and global corps
of over 60,000 systems and services experts make it uniquely
positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet
to help its customers succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has
188,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries.
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