net.com and Atreus Systems announced a strategic technology and marketing partnership to supply their carrier customers with QoS-enabled IP service delivery systems for use in applications such as voice or data VPNs, VOD, IP TV, bandwidth on demand, and content delivery. The partnership combines net.com's SCREAM service creation platform with Atreus' xAuthority Service Fulfillment operational support system (OSS) to simplify the creation, provisioning and management of advanced IP services. For carriers deploying the solution, subscribers would be able to self-provision services through a web portal, automatically driving changes to QoS, security, authentication, and policy enforcement. Significantly, the joint solution would leverage the DSL Forum's TR-59 specification for delivering IP QoS.
net.com's SCREAM platform is a broadband remote access server (BRAS), compliant with DSL Forum Technical Requirement (TR) 59, that could be deployed at the edge of a network alongside a DSLAM. Atreus xAuthority is a service definition and fulfillment environment designed to scale to millions of subscribers. The Atreus OSS is available with configurable service templates that address provisioning processes and service attributes for a variety of IP-based services, including managed firewall, virtual private networks, voice, bandwidth management and hosted applications.
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- Two new technical reports (TR-058 and TR-059) from The DSL Forum will provide the foundation for the next generation of DSL network architecture, supporting end-to-end transport of IP with quality of service (QoS) and multicasting. Specifically, the new technical reports are expected to open up a new range and level of service offerings from value-added ASPs and ISPs, such as multiple VoIP channels, video conferencing, streaming entertainment video, rapid interaction online gaming and remote access to hosted applications. More online at http://www.convergedigest.com/standards/standardsarticle.asp?ID=8971
