Product: Aggregation Router for the edge of the network (available)

Target Customers: Traditional service providers providing who want to migrate to IP core

The Gap That It Fills: One major dilemma that the service providers world-wide are facing, is—how to balance between the future and the present. In simpler words, IP is emerging to be a common standard of the future and certainly the best form of traffic to carry in the high-speed optical core networks, even today. On the other hand, most of the present revenues of service providers still come from the non-IP services based on TDM, T1/E1, Frame Relay and ATM. The challenge is to transform these non-IP services into IP streams, while maintaining the integrity of each service.

Ambers’ Aggregation Service Router ASR2000 does just that. It sits at the edge of the network and aggregates multiple types of traffic and converts them into IP streams to be carried over a common optical core, while maintaining the integrity of each type of traffic. This removes the need for multiple overlay networks for each of these technologies. RHK, INC estimates the market demand for such edge aggregation products at $21.5 billion in the year 2003.