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Redback Networks Partners with Bell Atlantic to Enhance Consumer and Business Broadband Services

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Bell Atlantic, a leading provider of consumer and business broadband services, has partnered with Redback Networks to deploy the Redback Subscriber Management System (SMS) 1000. This multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement will strengthen Bell Atlantic's Infospeed DSL service offering, providing broadband data access to its customers using Redback technology. The deployment will enable Bell Atlantic to meet the high projected demand for its Infospeed high-speed ADSL service and provide DSL access to regional and national ISPs.

Key Takeaways:

  • Bell Atlantic has entered into a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement with Redback Networks to deploy the Redback Subscriber Management System (SMS) 1000.
  • The deployment will strengthen Bell Atlantic's Infospeed DSL service offering, providing broadband data access to its customers using Redback technology.
  • The Redback SMS 1000 will enable Bell Atlantic to meet the high projected demand for its Infospeed high-speed ADSL service.
  • Bell Atlantic will use the Redback SMS 1000 to provide DSL access to regional and national ISPs.
  • The SMS 1000 supports multiple service interfaces and provides the scalability required to support a large customer base.
  • Bell Atlantic has built Redback's SMS into more than 80 points of presence (POPs) to meet the high demand for its Infospeed DSL service.
  • The partnership is a key component of Bell Atlantic's aggressive DSL roll-out program.
  • Redback's SMS technology will enable Bell Atlantic to provide subscribers with a faster installation experience and a future that is rich with new value-added services.

Statistics:

  • Bell Atlantic has more than 43 million telephone access lines and nearly 10 million wireless customers worldwide.
  • Bell Atlantic is one of the world's largest investors in high-growth global communications markets, with operations and investments in 23 countries.
  • The Redback Subscriber Management System (SMS) 1000 has received Best of Show honors for WAN and remote access equipment at NetWorld+Interop, Las Vegas, in May 1998.
  • The SMS 1000 was honored by Telecommunications Magazine as one of the "Lucky 13" hot products in telecom at the SUPERCOMM '99 show in Atlanta.

Sources:

  • Redback Networks press release, Wednesday.
  • Bell Atlantic press release, Wednesday.
  • Redback Networks website, Redback Networks, Inc.
  • Telecom Magazine, "Lucky 13," SUPERCOMM '99 show in Atlanta, May 1999.
  • NetWorld+Interop, Las Vegas, May 1998.

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