PARIS, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Riverstone Networks, Inc. (RSTN.PK) is demonstrating the interoperability, resiliency, Quality of Service (QoS) and multicast capabilities of both its Riverstone 15008 and 15100 carrier Ethernet routers at this year's interoperability event at MPLS World Congress in Paris, February 7-10. As part of the demonstration, Riverstone is showing its ability to support high-quality business and residential triple-play services reliably within a multi-vendor MPLS network. Fifteen vendors are participating in the interoperability event, which was organized by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire and the MFA Forum. The demonstration illustrates the effectiveness of an MPLS infrastructure in delivering converged services with SONET-like resiliency, end-to-end traffic engineering, dynamic bandwidth allocation and guaranteed service delivery. The Riverstone 15000 product line combines the carrier-grade reliability and QoS of MPLS with its own high-availability software design to enable service providers to deliver the Quality of user Experience necessary for the success of such services as VoIP, IPTV and multimedia wireless services. Riverstone's high-availability design features both a modular OS to prevent the occurrence of software failures and hitless protection software to quickly recover from them, thereby avoiding service disruptions. Riverstone's routers feature hierarchical QoS (HQoS) to address service quality at not only the network level, but also at the subscriber level to ensure the quality of each of an end-user's multiple services. Riverstone's routers also feature hierarchical VPLS (HVPLS) to extend the capabilities of MPLS-based Ethernet so that service providers have the added scalability needed to serve millions of subscribers dependably. In addition, HVPLS pushes video packet replications for multicasting further out to the edge, scaling the delivery of high quality video services more economically. About the MFA Forum The MFA Forum is an international, industry-wide, nonprofit association of service providers, equipment vendors and enterprise users. The focus of the Forum is to advance the deployment of multi-vendor, multi-service packet-based networks, associated applications, and interworking solutions for telecommunications and networking. The Forum is driving the convergence of ATM, Frame Relay and IP/MPLS technologies in the global telecom industry through interoperability initiatives, implementation agreements, and educational and marketing resources and programs. The Forum currently has more than 60 members. For Forum membership information please contact Alexa Morris, executive director, at (510) 608-5914 or via e-mail at . Additional information about The MFA Forum is available online at http://www.mfaforum.org/. About EANTC The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) offers vendor-neutral network test facilities for manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise customers. Primary business areas include interoperability, conformance, and performance testing for IP, MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, and Voice over IP-related network technologies and applications. EANTC provides network-related services including consulting and seminars for MPLS and other networking technologies. For more information about EANTC contact Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director, at +49.30.3180595-0 or via e-mail at . http://www.eantc.com/ About Riverstone Riverstone Networks, Inc. (RSTN.PK) is a leading provider of carrier Ethernet infrastructure solutions for business and residential communications services. Riverstone's Ethernet router portfolio uniquely delivers the reliability that allows carriers to meet the triple play -- voice, video and data -- service requirements of their customers in a cost-effective and scalable way. Riverstone allows carriers to offer new services over existing revenue-generating networks permitting them to evolve to a next generation Ethernet infrastructure. Riverstone Contact: Amy Huitt Riverstone Networks, Inc. 1-408-878-6918 DATASOURCE: Riverstone Networks, Inc. CONTACT: Amy Huitt of Riverstone Networks, Inc., +1-408-878-6918, or Web site: http://www.riverstonenet.com/

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