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CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Nortel is a major supplier of the older, more traditional voice-switching gear, And while it offers a few products that help carriers deliver some services over a converged network, it has been missing a scalable router that can take in different types of traffic and put it ocean meets sky iphone case onto the MPLS infrastructure, Before the MPE 9000 was announced, Nortel tried to position its older products, like the Passport ATM switch and the Shasta IP Service switch, for this purpose, But neither product had been specifically designed to handle MPLS, and neither product supported the scalability necessary, said Mark Bieberich, an analyst at The Yankee Group..

"The Passport and Shasta were designed for different purposes," he said. "At a certain level, the economics don't work for these older products, and a new one, built from the ground up, is needed.". As more carriers move toward an MPLS network, the market for products that can help them bridge the gap between the old network and the new one is heating up. Nortel's primary competitor in this "multiservice" edge router market is Cisco Systems. Cisco has repositioned its GSR 12000 router, which had originally been designed as a core router for the Internet, as its answer to MPLS convergence. It also targets certain accounts with its 7600 and 10000 routers.

Other equipment makers are also trying to cash in on convergence, Juniper Networks, the No, 2 IP-routing player, offers customers its IP routers, including the M320, M160 and M40e, Companies without much of an IP story have been scrambling to find one, Last year, Alcatel bought TiMetra Networks to get its foot in the door, And Tellabs, also a maker of traditional telephone switching gear, bought a start-up called Vivace Networks, A couple start-ups still remain independent, including Laurel Networks and Hammerhead ocean meets sky iphone case Systems..

Nortel's product announcement comes on the heels of the firing last month of several key executives, including its chief executive, Frank Dunn. The company fired Dunn, along with its chief financial officer and controller, after an investigation into the company's accounting practices revealed that discrepancies ran deeper than expected. Nortel Networks announces a new router designed to help carriers deliver voice, video and data services over a single network. On Monday, the telecommunications equipment maker introduced the Multiservice Provider Edge (MPE) 9000, known internally as "Neptune." The new edge router is designed to help carriers shift traffic from their old ATM (asynchronous transfer mode)-based networks to ones built using a technology called MPLS (multiprotocol label switching).