Ethernet or Frame Relay LAN interfaces are offered. Lucent will resell the testing platform along with its DSL access equipment and NetCare installation and customer support professional services. Separately, Turnstone announced a major contract to supply its Copper CrossConnect loop management products to Covad Communications. Financial terms were not disclosed. Turnstone recently disclosed shipment of more than 1,000 of its Copper CrossConnect CX100 platforms to DSL service providers in the first six months of production.
Turnstone is based in Mountain View, California.
The Shasta 5000 enables the aggregation of tens of thousands of DSL subscribers in a single chassis. Its GUI-based policy management system could be used to create and provision highly flexible firewall and other service policies for thousands of subscribers. Ten other DSL vendors have agreed to provide interoperability with the Shasta 5000, including Cayman Systems, CopperCom, Efficient Networks, FlowPoint, Jetstream Communications, Netopia, Network TeleSystems, Promatory Communications, TollBridge Technologies and Wind River Systems. Nokia will show the product at next month's Telecom '99 in Geneva. General availability dates and pricing were not disclosed.