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BOXBOROUGH, MASS. -Appian Communications last week announced general availability of its Ethernet provisioning platform, its first customer and some new features to enhance interoperability with SONET, among other functions.
Appian's Optical Services Activation Platform (OSAP) 4800 switch dishes off bandwidth to corporate customers in pieces as small as 64K bit/sec via lOM bit/sec, 100M bit/sec or Gigabit Ethernet ports. The switch is designed for carriers that make direct fiber connections to customer sites, then sell services at speeds slower than OC-48.
Typically, carriers will place one of the switches in an...