Nortel Networks' Open IP Environment offers several key enhancements for products using Intel's IXP1200, including advanced Multiple Virtual Router functionality, Nortel Networks Command Line Interface, and a higher-performance version of the OSPF enterprise routing protocol. Multiple Virtual Router functionality enables a single router to act as the platform supporting functionally separate workgroups. This eliminates the need for each group to have a separate router-based network, which helps lower costs, decrease network complexity and simplify network management. People working in finance can be on a separate virtual network from those in marketing or human resources, yet one router network can support these virtual networks. The enhanced OSPF, with a significant increase in performance, eventually results in greater scalability for large networks.
Greater scalability makes the networks more flexible.
Nortel Networks' Open IP Environment is designed to open standards and open application programming interfaces for IP functions such as routing, authentication, tunneling and encapsulation, as well as applications like policy, networking management and accounting. Open IP Environment makes routing and IP software available to developers, enabling them to deliver new Internet applications and services to the market in less time and at much lower cost. Nortel Networks' Open IP Environment is based on a modular software architecture and can Internet-enable everything from servers and networking processors to Internet appliances such as set top boxes, mobility devices and personal computers. Nortel Networks, the Nortel Networks logo, the Globemark, Unified Networks and How the world shares ideas are trademarks of Nortel Networks. Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation.