MUNICH, 2 March, 2000 - Cisco Systems, Inc., today announced Deutsche Telekom's choice of the Cisco 12016 GSR carrier-class router and 12000 Terabit System for the expansion of their Terabit IP network. The network deploys Cisco's Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology that allows Deutsche Telekom to handle growing data traffic volume on the IP backbone. Deutsche Telekom will be scaling their network to offer their enterprise as well as small- and medium-sized business customers faster Internet access and a broad range of New World services including Virtual Private Networks, unicast and multicast-based services. Deutsche Telekom operates Germany's largest IP backbone, offering the most comprehensive coverage for implementing these services, and chose Cisco technology for its reliability, performance, and scalability capabilities.
Innovative services for business customers
With the Cisco 12016 GSR, Deutsche Telekom is upgrading their infrastructure to meet the growing needs of their business and private customers for increased capacity and Quality of Service. The IP-based high performance network provides highspeed access to form a state-of-the-art communications platform for scalable and optimize services such as T-OnlineConnect. T-Online is a subsidiary company of Deutsche Telecom and the biggest Internet access and on-line Service Provider in Germany. Access to the T-Online Connect network is either direct or via ISDN or T-DSL. In addition to the T-Online Internet portal, T-InterConnect delivers several personalized connection options while T-IntraConnect allows companies to build up virtual private networks (VPNs). Additional value-added IP services such as Web and Application Hosting, e-Learning and Unified Messaging are also available.
12000 Terabit System
Through its OC-192c/STM64 (10 Gigabit) interface, the Cisco 12016 GSR-a fundamental component of the 12000 Terabit System--offers extremely high scalability. The 12000 Terabit System is designed to implement highly scalable, robust IP backbones to form the basis for IP value-added services. It provides a modular, highly available and scalable system up to 5 Tbps based on a crossbar switch fabric architecture. Since the entire system can be managed like a single routing node, it facilitates the POP (Point-of-Presence) architecture and reduces operating costs.
The Cisco IOS (Internet Operating System) allows Deutsche Telekom to provide their customers with a homogeneous and consistent platform while ensuring interoperability with existing corporate networks. The Cisco 12016 GSR offers flexible configuration and provides PoS (Packet-over-SONET), ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet interfaces, amongst others. With a latency of less than 15 microseconds per system, combined with class of service capabilities, this platform is ideal for handling real-time applications such as interactive data traffic or online transactions, voice and video.
Deutsche Telekom is certified Cisco Partner
Deutsche Telekom offers these services as a CPNT (Cisco Powered Network) Partner. As the leader in networking for the Internet, Cisco only provides CPN certification to companies that meet the strict quality criteria in terms of network infrastructure, personnel and network services.
