Fujitsu Targets Advanced Packet Networking Market

Fujitsu Network Communications launched an all-out, major assault on the advanced packet network market that builds on its established base of optical transport solutions for incumbents, CLECs, wireless carriers and MSOs in North America. Fujitsu is partnering with Atrica, CoSine Communications and others to define and deliver a Flexible Architecture for Subscriber Service Termination (FASST) aimed at integrating SONET, Optical Ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay, IP, MPLS and Operational Support System (OSS) products. Fujitsu said it developed FASST in direct response to service providers' feedback indicating that they wanted to offer more differentiable managed services but were dissatisfied with the product offerings available from traditional IP vendors. Initial solutions in the FASST portfolio comprise carrier-class Optical Ethernet systems by Atrica, and managed IP service and Advanced Subscriber Management (ASM) platforms by CoSine Communications. Fujitsu has entered into resale agreements with both companies. Fujitsu's services group will provide network design, deployment, training and maintenance services across all FASST solution products. Additional partnerships are expected.



CoSine's IPSX Service Processing Switch with enhanced IPSG+ technology provide carriers with advanced managed IP VPN services (both IPSec and MPLS) and managed firewall services. In addition, the CoSine solution also provides B- RAS capabilities to deliver advanced broadband services and virtualized multicast services.



Atrica is currently shipping three different carrier-class optical Ethernet systems along with an integrated service provisioning and management system. The product line includes the A-8000 Optical Ethernet Core Switch, the A-4100 Optical Ethernet Aggregation Switch, and the A-2000 family of Optical Ethernet Edge Switches. Key features of the Atrica optical Ethernet platform include high port densities in NEBS-compliant chassis, an MPLS architecture capable of supporting large numbers of flows, SLAs, sub-50 millisecond resiliency, integration with circuit switched networks, Ethernet CES for support of TDM traffic, and point and click OAM&P. Atrica's existing A-8000 chassis scales up to 320 Gbps and is designed for core network deployments.



The FASST architecture is currently undergoing trials at North American service providers. http://www.fujitsu.com/us/telecom/http://www.cosinecom.com