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The ST200: One Router, All Services
Key Features
Advantages
System Design
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Product Specifications

The full-featured and flexible ST200 is ideally suited for a range of
service provider and carrier applications.

Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC)
The ST200 offers compelling value for RBOCs seeking to cost-effectively expand their presence into the long distance (LD) data services market via a single multi-service platform deployed in strategic locations to interconnect LATAs. The ST200 delivers investment protection through low initial capital investment and ongoing operations costs, as well as the flexibility to evolve with changing service requirements. The ST200 includes the QoS and connection management required to reliably offer ATM or Frame Relay services, as well as the scalable routing required to offer IP-based services such as Internet and IP VPNs. The ST200 allows RBOCs to offer any service over any interface at any speed while evolving as customer requirements change. And the ST200 provides the high availability and reliability required for mission-critical carrier data services. Together, these features give RBOCs the power to offer any type of data service from a single ST200.


Inter-exchange Carrier (IXC)
IXCs face declining voice revenues and intensified competition in a rapidly changing market. The ST200 enables IXCs to aggressively counter challengers via an efficient data service delivery infrastructure from which they can offer enhanced data services. By integrating the ST200 into strategic POPs, IXCs can realize a range of advantages with minimal capital investment. Legacy equipment is leveraged, while new services are enabled. The penalties for imperfect capacity planning and service transitions go away. Profitable, scalable services such as IP-enabled Frame Relay are now possible. No longer are IXCs limited by the capabilities of existing data service delivery equipment. Any type of data service can be offered at any speed over any type of customer access network, giving IXCs the flexibility to offer compelling services in the most efficient way possible.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)
With the ST200, ISPs can expand their service portfolio beyond Internet access to include a complete range of switched and routed services such as ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet and VPNs over a common IP or MPLS backbone. Sophisticated ST200 traffic classification and rate limiting features enable ISPs to offer retail and wholesale services from a single edge platform, while robust BGP policy accounting enables providers to align service offerings
with cost structure. The result is increased efficiency and profitability via a complete service portfolio that enables ISPs to cost-effectively attract new customers while retaining existing customers.

Postal,Telephone and Telegraph (PTT) Agency
PTTs seeking to tactically expand their service portfolio while strategically investing in a more efficient, long-term multi-service packet-based infrastructure can realize significant benefits with the ST200. Using the ST200, PTTs can provide countrywide long haul data services, offering customers Ethernet access interfaces (with or without VLANs) for a point-to-point service with service level guarantees or high-demand, high-growth services such as IP VPNs and Internet transit. By breaking the bond between service and interface speed, the ST200 allows PTTs to provide higher-speed options for existing ATM and Frame Relay services, expanding customer choices as bandwidth demands increase.

Broadband Service Provider
Broadband connectivity is rapidly gaining popularity in both the consumer and business arenas. However, traditional BRAS devices lack the scalability, QoS capabilities and integrated routing and switching required to deliver a wide range of broadband services. With the ST200, broadband service providers can evolve beyond basic Internet service to sophisticated services such as IP VPNs over broadband access networks that can immediately begin impacting revenues.The ST200 is dramatically more scalable than existing BRAS devices, critical as more business and consumer users adopt ever-increasing rates of broadband connectivity. Robust Service Separation and Blending (SSB) enables the delivery of high-value services with guaranteed QoS, as well as integrated routing for complete and reliable content delivery. For the consumer market, providers can use SSB to deliver new services such as network gaming and video on demand alongside Internet. For corporate customers, the ST200 allows broadband providers to offer flexible services such as voice over IP and private IP networks
with guaranteed delivery.