Pannaway Networks has announced the availability of its Broadband Access Switch (BAS)-150, the latest version of its line of standalone access products. Leveraging pseudowire technology, the BAS-150 enables service providers to establish "virtual wires" for the transport of traditional TDM services along the same cost-effective, high performance, converged Ethernet transmission path. The BAS-150 is an integral component of Pannaway's Service Convergence Network (SCN) architecture and provides yet another tool enabling service providers to evolve their legacy networks to Ethernet/IP.
The BAS-150 is particularly valuable for carriers who currently provide or plan to offer backhaul services to mobile operators. Wireline service providers can also leverage Ethernet pseudowires to provide business services and to transition existing T-1 based services off of platforms that are nearing their end of life.
"Pannaway's BAS-150 is of tremendous value to the service provider community because of its unique capabilities, standards-based implementation and price performance," said Brad Hansen, Chief Operating Officer of Fixed Operations for Nsight. "It won't be long before mobile base stations evolve to Ethernet backhaul. The BAS-150 allows for growth based on T1s and stands ready in its current form to provide GigE backhaul when the radios are ready for it."
Posted to the site on 1st April 2008
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