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Tiara's Access Concentrators Improve POP Scalability and Manageability for EarthLink Customers

Strategic Insights

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Tiara Networks has announced that EarthLink, one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, has chosen Tiara's 6000 Series POP Access Concentrators to manage and scale its rapidly growing subscriber base. EarthLink selected Tiara's products for their cost-effective aggregation, manageability, and multimegabit provisioning capabilities, which enable the company to connect customers more easily while controlling costs. Tiara's access concentrators have proven to be easy to configure, manage, and maintain, and have been praised by EarthLink's network administrators for their superior performance.

Key Takeaways:

  • Tiara's 6000 Series POP Access Concentrators have been chosen by EarthLink to aggregate and manage IP traffic at its Point of Presence (POP) locations in the southeastern United States.
  • The concentrators provide service aggregation in an easily manageable and well-supported device, saving precious rack space for EarthLink.
  • Tiara's products offer superior performance, easy configuration, and cost-effective manageability, which have impressed EarthLink's network administrators.
  • The 6000 Series products improve Internet access performance for EarthLink's customers by offloading processor-intensive service aggregation and physical layer WAN functions from routers and switches.
  • Tiara's customer support organization has been praised by EarthLink for its exceptional support, which has been critical in meeting the company's needs.
  • EarthLink's choice of Tiara's 6000 Series products is a strong endorsement of Tiara's approach to solving a crucial problem for service providers.

Statistics:

  • EarthLink has chosen Tiara's 6000 Series POP Access Concentrators to manage and scale its subscriber base.
  • The concentrators can aggregate up to 128 customers per WAN interface and connect to the network router via 10/100 Ethernet.
  • EarthLink serves more than 3.46 million individuals and businesses daily.
  • Tiara Networks provides broadband access systems that supercharge IP and frame relay networks.

Sources:

  • BUSINESS WIRE, "Tiara's Access Concentrators Improve POP Scalability and Manageability, Deliver Superior Performance for EarthLink Customers", June 6, 2000.
  • Tiara Networks, "About Us", www.tiaranetworks.com.
  • EarthLink, "About Us", www.earthlink.net.

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