Fujitsu Network Communications will resell Hammerhead Systems' HSX 6000 Migration Edge solution as part of its recently announced Flexible Architecture for Subscriber Service Termination (FASST) solution portfolio. Hammerhead's platform, which is designed for migrating Frame Relay / ATM services onto MPLS backbones, leverages a unique switch architecture that "virtualizes" expensive system resources, enabling a higher efficiency and service density than other Layer 2 service aggregation platforms. Key to the design is a Distributed Service Interworking Engine that is bi-directional, control plane agnostic, and scales to handle thousands of fine-grained flows. Hammerhead has also developed a Bandwidth Pooling Architecture that allows switch processing cards to be shared by physical interface cards. The company's first product is delivers scalable edge capacity of 30 Gbps - 120 Gbps full duplex in a 1/4 rack. It offers a mid-plane design and service-agile interfaces ranging from T1 to Oc-192c/10GbE and FR/ATM/PPP/POS/Ethernet.
The reseller agreement between Fujitsu and Hammerhead involves joint marketing, product planning, customer support and services in North America. http://www.fujitsu.com/us/telecom/http://www.hammerheadsystems.com
- Earlier this month, 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.
