San Jose-based SDL Inc. specializes in lasers and other optoelectronic components. The combined cable company will serve 11.0 million subscribers with 18.4 million homes passed. Financial terms were not disclosed. Redstone is developing a carrier-class Edge Switch Router that performs packet classification, per flow queuing and scheduling at wire speed for delivering IP Differentiated Services. The Redstone box will use custom ASICs to maintain QoS profiles for thousands of simultaneous end-user flows.
Beta testing is underway.
Siemens' Unisphere Solutions subsidiary now combines newly-acquired Argon Networks, Castle Networks and Redstone Communications with Siemens' Internet Solutions, Voice over ATM and Broadband Networks unit, Enterprise Data Networking unit and its Directory Services Group. Frontier Communications provides voice services as a CLEC in 29 states as an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier in 13 states. US nationwide fiber network. Frontier's OC-48c IP backbone is based on Cisco 12000 GSRs and Cisco 7500 routers. Further extentions were activated in February 1999.