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Networking:
Tasman Extends Flexibility of WAN
Connectivity Systems
Tasman Networks, a provider of advanced router and WAN switching solutions
for
bandwidth-intensive applications, today announced that it is enhancing the
scalability and functionality of its high-performance WAN connectivity systems
by doubling the memory to 256 MB and by bundling the popular dynamic routing
protocols, RIP and OSPF. These additional features will be built-in to all of
Tasman Networks' base system configurations at no additional cost.
This announcement is part of Tasman Network's ongoing commitment to provide
customers with high-performance, highly flexible Layer 2 and 3 solutions to
meet their networking needs today and in the future. By bundling these
capabilities on all base systems, Tasman Networks allows customers to easily
scale bandwidth and functionality as needed without requiring expensive
upgrades or modifications to existing hardware.
"In today's challenging economic environment, IT budgets are more limited
than
in years past and our customers are faced with the daunting task of keeping
costs down while meeting the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth capacity,"
said Paul Smith, president and CEO of Tasman Networks. "We recognize that each
customer faces unique business and networking challenges, and we therefore
equip all our systems from the ground up to deliver the power and headroom to
scale as customer needs grow. Our goal continues to be to deliver high value
products with no hassles."
As networks become increasingly complex, network managers require WAN
connectivity solutions that provide the power and memory capacity to ensure
maximum performance to support multiple protocols and multiple peers. With the
bundling of 256 MB of memory on its base system configurations, Tasman
Networks' customers can deploy new functionality and services as needed, such
as dynamic routing, BGP4 and additional ports, quickly and easily. Tasman
Networks also enables customers to add new services, protocols and other
features from a central location through software upgrades.
These bundled capabilities are available immediately on all Tasman
Networks'
WAN connectivity systems at no additional cost, including the recently
announced Tasman 1004 router, the industry's first T1/E1 WAN connectivity
solution that offers built-in scalability in multiple dimensions -- bandwidth,
functionality, and performance -- to address the growing market demand for
cost-effective, branch/remote office connectivity bandwidth from one to four
T1 or E1s.
Tasman Networks' broad product family includes enterprise customer premises
routing equipment, aggregation routing systems and WAN switches. Connectivity
options include fractional T1/E1, NxT1/E1, channelized DS3, sub-rate DS3, and
clear-channel DS3/NxDS3, as well as dual fast Ethernet ports. The company's
systems deliver advanced features, such as OSPF, RIP and RIPv2, and BGP4
routing protocols, a complete Layer 2 software suite (PPP/MLPPP, FR/MFR, HDLC)
and key applications (QoS, VLAN tagging/forwarding, NAT, packet filter).
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