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PALO ALTO - DSL equipment maker Copper Mountain last week unveiled a concentrator designed to increase the efficiency of ATM-based DSL networks.
Called the VantEdge 3000 Broadband Services Concentrator, the IP-based box provides functions such as policy-based class of service, subscriber aggregation and traffic shaping. Copper Mountain hopes to have the box in general availability by April 2002.
"This allows us to get into the [incumbent local exchange carrier] marketplace and into the international carriers that have deployed ATM," says Bryan Long, vice president of marketing at Copper Mountain. "We had to be realistic. We knew we weren't going to go in and sell these guys new IP-based DSL access multiplexers [DSLAM] when they'd already invested in ATM."
Currently, DSL providers with ATM networks use...