The immediate success of the RS 3000 highlights the rapid growth of the metropolitan area network.
Carriers are no longer content with selling mere connectivity or even reliable bandwidth.
Today, carriers offer differentiated services that the RS family of metro switches and routers are optimized to deliver. These new services require intelligent, service-rich infrastructure in both the metro core and edge. Early on, Riverstone saw the need to add IP intelligence to bandwidth and the success of the product line validates Riverstone's approach to the infrastructure problem. The success of the RS 3000 Metro Optical Access Router is related to a change in Internet traffic patterns and the rise of the metropolitan area network. Riverstone's robust feature set and Internet-caliber routing functionality scale across the entire product family, including the RS 3000, which enables service providers to deliver the full range of advanced services in a small form factor.