Data Connection Announces Availability of DC-BGP, part of its Carrier Class IP Routing Suite
DC-BGP meets the demands of highly-scaled and fault-tolerant applications, including full support for BGP/MPLS VPNs
London, UK: December 9, 2002. Data Connection Limited (DCL), the world's leading provider of communications protocol software, today announced that it has released its Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) product, DC-BGP, to customers. DC-BGP forms part of its IP Routing Suite and has been architected specifically for the reliability, scalability and extensibility requirements both of today's fast growing Internet and of Next Generation Networks. It supports Virtual routing, including BGP/MPLS VPNs (in accordance with RFC 2547).
DC-BGP is a fully portable, source code solution that can be easily integrated with DC-MPLS and DCL's other IP Routing protocol stacks (including DC-OSPF and DC-ISIS), or can be used on its own, or with third-party products. An optional, highly scalable Routing Table Manager component provides a flexible policy engine to control sharing of routing information with other protocols (typically sharing between an IGP and EGP).
DCL's IP Routing suite supports Virtual Routing, with different routing tables for different users. DC-BGP develops this further with a VPN Manager component for providing RFC 2547 BGP/MPLS VPNs. The VPN Manager extends the routing policy rules, for example, providing an intelligent and efficient solution for maintaining private per-VPN routing information alongside shared internet routes.
DCL has carried out an extensive requirements assessment by consulting major customers and carriers. This process is ongoing thereby ensuring that DC-BGP and DCL's other IP Routing solutions are tailored to the needs of the market, with the ability to
- handle millions of routes with no hard-coded limits
- support non-stop forwarding
- distribute routing tables to multiple locations, enabling distributed processing and ensuring that there is no single point of failure
- scale to many thousands of independent routing tables, as required by Virtual Routers and BGP/MPLS VPNs.
Further Information
Further information on DC-BGP can be found at www.dataconnection.com/iprouting/bgp.htm.
DC-BGP runs within DCL's existing high performance portable execution environment - the N-BASE. This provides extensive scalability and flexibility and enables the distribution of protocol components across different hardware configurations. The N-BASE has been ported to a large number of operating systems including VxWorks, OSE, pSOS, Chorus, Nucleus, Solaris, HP-UX and Windows NT, and has been used on all common processors including x86, i960, Motorola 860 and 8260, Sparc, IDT and MIPS. Proprietary OSs and chipsets can be supported with minimal effort. In addition, pre-ported solutions are available on a range of operating systems including VxWorks, OSE, Linux, LynxOS, Solaris and Windows.
About Data Connection Limited
Data Connection Limited (DCL) is the leading independent developer and supplier of IP Routing, LMP, MPLS, SIP, MGCP/Megaco, SCTP, ATM, Conferencing, Unified Messaging, Directory and SNA portable products. Customers include Calient, CIENA, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM Corp., Lucent, Microsoft, Nortel Networks and Sun. Its MetaSwitch division develops and manufactures a carrier-class Next Generation Class 5 Switch for telecommunications service providers. Data Connection is headquartered in London UK, with US offices in Reston, VA and Alameda, CA.
It was founded in 1981 and is privately held. During each of the past 20 years its profits have exceeded 20% of revenue. Last year sales exceeded $35M, of which 90% were outside the UK, mostly in the US. This large proportion of overseas sales has led to the company being awarded two Queen's Awards for outstanding export performance.
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