Sunday, May 18, 2003

ClearPath Upgrades its MPLS-based VPN Service

ClearPath Networks, a provider of MPLS network-based VPN services, introduced the latest version of its fully integrated network management platform, giving customer the ability to monitor and configure key WAN parameters. The new version 4.0 of ClearPath's network management panel provides features such as jitter reporting,for measuring and monitoring QoS applications; queue monitoring and dynamic queue adjustment capabilities, for increased visibility into bandwidth utilization and control to make real-time adjustments; and customer device monitoring, which provides measurement and reporting of equipment performance within the local or wide area network environment. The customer control panel can also provide realt-time network status, including data on packet delivery, latency, bandwidth utilization and other indicators. The same customer control panel provide management of additional services, such as network-based firewalls, corporate email management and web hosting.

ClearPath Networks offers MPLS-based as well as IPSec-based VPN services nationally. The company partners with a variety of local access providers, such as Covad, New Edge Networks, WorldCom and others. ClearPath operates its own MPLS infrastructure over a backbone that leases capacity from Qwest, Level 3 and others. ClearPath is based in El Segundo, California.
http://www.clearpathnet.com

  • ClearPath Networks is headed by Cliff Young, who previously was chairman and CEO of InternetConnect, Inc., a venture backed national provider of ATM/MPLS private network solutions that was acquired by Covad Communications.