They enhance Passport's ability to combine voice and data traffic over switched WAN services, and enable cost reductions by eliminating the need for mission-specific voice and data networks. These capabilities also build on Nortel Networks' Open IP initiative by delivering open IP routing on today's platforms. In addition, these solutions will be compatible with future high-performance Internet applications and devices employing the Open IP source code.
Announcements represent another step toward making that vision a reality.
The Passport 2430 multiservice access switch provides flexibility and high performance to businesses in a wide range of sizes and market niches. Small and medium-sized businesses can deploy the 2430 as the primary router, and it can serve large companies as a small branch office solution. E-business demands more and more bandwidth and speed, and the Passport 2430 helps provide these economically. This enables forwarding of packetized voice traffic over IP networks including existing router infrastructures. This enables greater flexibility in forwarding voice or data traffic, and makes it easier for Passport to co-exist in existing router networks.