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Riverstone Networks Product Reference Guide Product Reference Guide Bandwidth with Brains™ Company Background Table of Contents CONTENTS Riverstone Networks builds routers for Metropolitan Area Networks. Riverstone is Company Background 1 the only Internet infrastructure vendor focusing exclusively on the needs of carriers Overview of Competitive Positioning 3 in metropolitan area networks. Riverstone provides routing solutions for every segment Product Line Overview 7 of the metro network, from building access and metro aggregation to the data center Product Specifications and the Internet core edge. Riverstone’s Ports/Line Cards per Chassis 9 routers are optimized to help service RS Family Matrix 11 providers deliver value-added services in COMPANY BACKGROUND COMPANY the metro environment. The company’s Access Routers customer base includes some of the largest RS 1000/3000 13 and most sophisticated carriers in the world, including Verizon, Qwest, and British Telecom, Aggregation Routers as well as emerging service providers such RS 8000/8600 17 as Telseon and Intellispace. RS 16000 21 RS 38000 25 Founded in 1996, Riverstone is based in Santa Clara, California, and currently has Carrier Class Edge Access Solution sales offices in North and South America, ES 500 29 Europe, and Asia. The company employs more than 500 people, with about half of Management Software these employees devoted to engineering RapidOS™ Management Center 31 and product development. Riverstone is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and Glossary 33 trades under the symbol RSTN. Riverstone Parts List 39 Riverstone Contact Information 42 1 www.riverstonenet.com 2 Overview of OVERVIEW OF COMPETITIVE POSITIONING Competitive Positioning Industry Background highly stable implementations of BGP-4, Services Riverstone Differentiators Service providers today confront severe OSPF, and IS-IS have been certified by Tier 1 economic challenges. Bandwidth is carriers worldwide and are fully interoperable Metro VPN services • Hardware-based, field-programmable becoming a commodity, while operational with Cisco and Juniper core routers. (virtual leased lines, MPLS featuring circuit emulation (Martini) costs continue to rise. As a result, service transparent LAN services) • Reliable support for the full 4,096 VLANs No performance degradation with providers are increasingly interested in • Stackable VLAN technology, permitting features enabled: Rich service capabilities infrastructure solutions that can help them creation of over 16 million VLANs have no value if the network slows to a crawl develop new revenue streams and reduce when they are activated. This is precisely the expense and complexity of their networks. Dynamic scalable • Hardware-based, bit-level rate limiting per the problem with software-based service This is where Riverstone Networks can help. bandwidth provisioning port for up to 2,048 customers per line card solutions. Because Riverstone implements • Open APIs to manage provisioning Market Focus all of its advanced service creation features Because Riverstone is focused exclusively in the ASICs, service providers never have to Prioritized class of service • Hardware-based MPLS on service providers in metropolitan area choose between features and performance. (tiered services) • DiffServ (ToS) networks, the company has a unique Lab tests consistently confirm that • 802.1p understanding of the challenges and Riverstone outperforms the competition requirements of this market. Every aspect with service features enabled. Content delivery services • Hardware-based multicast, content of its products – from service features and Unmatched range of service-enabling management, traffic policing, and hardware performance to the size and features: Value-added services require the web cache redirect OVERVIEW OF COMPETITIVE POSITIONING shape of the boxes themselves – has been right technological enablers. Competitors’ designed to help service providers increase products lack many of Riverstone’s powerful Security services • Hardware-based support for up to 20,000 revenues and decrease costs in their service-enablers and often feature unreliable, access control lists (ACLs) at wire speed metro networks. unstable implementations of others. • Layer 2-4 network address translation (NAT) Additionally, many competitive products • Port address translation (PAT) Riverstone Products implement some or all of their technological Deliver Unmatched enablers in software, producing the perfor- mance degradation problems described Revenue Potential above. The following table summarizes some of Riverstone’s distinctive service- Service providers understand that the key Market footprint and time-to-market oriented (TCP-based) accounting solution enabling features. to improving their revenues is developing advantage: Because service providers on the market, ensuring irrefutable simply can’t afford to wait for fiber pulls, the accounting and reliable services billing. new value-added services. Riverstone Service Delivery over Any Network ability to connect to existing infrastructure specializes in building routers that convert Unmatched granularity of accounting Unsurpassed interface support: translates into a substantially wider market raw bandwidth into profitable services for data: More granular accounting data footprint and often provides a first mover Metropolitan Area Networks. Supporting The physical infrastructure of the metropolitan enables a broader range of options for advantage. profitable services requires three key area network consists of a medley of different customer billing and generates detailed capabilities: enabling the services them- media types, and service providers must often insights into customer behavior that can Billing and Accounting for Services selves, delivering those services over make do with whatever type of media happens be used to develop additional services. any network, and accurately billing and to be available. Riverstone offers the broadest Industry’s only irrefutable accounting Riverstone is the only vendor to support all range of interface options in the industry, accounting for those services. Riverstone solution: Services accounting means more RMON I and RMON II groups in hardware enabling service providers to connect to has significant competitive advantages than simply gathering general statistics on every port, capturing a level of accounting whatever media type they encounter, including: in each of these areas, and is the only on average network usage; it requires information that competitors cannot match. infrastructure vendor – bar none – capable • T1/E1 accounting data that is sufficiently detailed (clear-channel and channelized) Accounting enabled: Because Riverstone’s of delivering all three of these requirements • T3/E3 and reliable to support an itemized customer (clear-channel and channelized) accounting solution is implemented in to customers. • Packet over SONET/SDH bill. That means gathering data with (OC-3 to OC-48) hardware, performance never suffers when • ATM irrefutable reliability. Because competitors’ (OC-3 to OC-12) the accounting features are activated. Unparalleled Service-enabling • WDM (CWDM & DWDM) products gather accounting data through Technology • Fast Ethernet (TX, FX, SX, LX-IR, & LX-LR) connectionless (UDP-based) solutions, critical Cutting-edge routing capabilities: • Gigabit Ethernet (FX, SX, LX-IR, & LX-LR) accounting data that is dropped en route to Carrier-grade routing is the foundation of any • 10 Gigabit Ethernet the accounting server will never be re-sent. service creation platform. Riverstone’s Robust, • SRP/RPR (OC-48) Riverstone offers the only connection- 3 www.riverstonenet.com 4 Riverstone Products OVERVIEW OF COMPETITIVE POSITIONING Can Also Slash Costs Riverstone routers help service providers • Unparalleled service creation minimize both capital costs and network • Service delivery over any media operating expenses. They do so by enabling • Billing and accounting for services the efficient use of legacy infrastructure, reducing the number of network elements, streamlining network management, and reducing the need for manual provisioning. Efficient Use of Legacy Infrastructure Reduced Number of Network Elements Broadest range of legacy and optical High port-density in a chassis-based interfaces: Riverstone’s unmatched platform: Riverstone’s RS router family interface options (see above) enable service features some of the highest port densities providers to seamlessly migrate from existing available anywhere, including the RS 16000, • Efficient use of legacy infrastructure legacy infrastructure to next generation which boasts over 70% greater gigabit • Reduced number of network elements optical networks. That means they can density than its closest rival. And since • Streamlined management begin delivering value-added services today, the RS family is a modular, chassis-based without incurring the costs of speculative platform, service providers can scale their build-outs on next generation equipment. networks without adding new boxes. OVERVIEW OF COMPETITIVE POSITIONING Integrated functionality: All Riverstone Streamlined Management routers are built around the same core tech- nology, including a common set of ASICs Common core technology: Because all and the same RapidOS system software. Riverstone routers are built around the same That means that all Riverstone routers core technology, there is no need to master feature the full spectrum of service-enabling a multitude of systems and feature sets. technologies, from the smallest
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