Bit Error Rate Testing Capability 10. W. L. Gore, Agilent and Mitel Seek Standard for Parallel Optics 11. WaveStar OLS 400G, WaveStar BandWidth Manager and next-generation bandwidth management systems and data networking equipment, including its GX 550 Multiservice ATM switch and PacketStar PSAX Multiservice media gateways. The first phase of deployment will link New York to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt and Milan operating by Q2. Links between New York and Toronto and between Hawaii, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney are already operating and will be part of the new network.
Financial terms are still under discussion.
Verizon will also use the network to offer wholesale capacity to other carriers and will resell a variety of Genuity's Internet products such as Web hosting and Internet access. FLAG Telecom and Metromedia Fiber Network will provide key fiber routes for the network. Global NAPs has deployed more than 30 ICS2000s around several core Marconi ASX-4000 ATM switches. The virtual switch configuration could scale to hundreds of thousands of DS-0s, or subscriber ports, in a distributed and reduced footprint as compared to traditional circuit switches. Global NAPs currently handles dial-up calls for Internet service providers such as Mindspring, MSN, Netcom, Prodigy, WebTV and Ziplink.