3Com Acquires NBX Corp. for LAN Telephony Systems 6. Instead of the timeslots and provisioned connections used in TDM structures, DPT employs statistical multiplexing to maximize the ring's carrying capacity. Multicasting and address filtering are also supported. First products will be available next month. Cisco said it is committed to open standards for SRP and the packet transport technology.
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The experimental switch is a tiny, pivoting bar with a gold-plated mirror on one end that can alternately allow lightwave signals to travel from one fiber to the next or reflect the signal instead. The installation will be the first OC-192 backbone in China. The first segment of MetroNet's long-haul network, connecting Vancouver and Seattle, Washington, will be deployed over the next few months. Deployment of the electronics between Vancouver and Toronto will be completed by the end of Q2. MetroNet operates fiber networks in major business centers across Canada.