Redback Networks To Build an Advanced Broadband Network for QSC in Germany

Redback will strengthen one of Germany’s largest CLEC’s to deliver more business enterprise services and wholesale residential services on a single network infrastructure. The deal reinforces Redback’s network transformation strategy to help carriers unify residential, business and mobile services on a single IP-based broadband network.

"The Internet is unifying residential and business infrastructures and there is a multi-billion dollar opportunity today for CLECs and Tier One carriers to provide ‘white-label’ broadband services to Internet service providers,” said Magnus Almquist, VP, EMEA Sales and Operations, Redback Networks. “What separates Redback from other router vendors is that more than 40 percent of its routers are provisioned for both business and residential services. QSC shares Redback’s vision that all data, voice and video services will be managed over a single, Internet-based infrastructure over time.”

Redback’s SmartEdge® 800 multi-service edge router platform strengthens QSC in delivering broadband access and MPLS VPN services for their business customers across Germany. The same Redback routers will be provisioned to enforce QSC in selling wholesale broadband access to ISPs who offer their own branded broadband services to the residential market. QSC knows the wholesaling ISP market as an attractive and growing market opportunity in Germany.

Other top carriers deploying SmartEdge for residential and business services include AT&T, British Telecom, China Telecom, China Netcom, ChungHwa Telecom (Taiwan), eAccess (Japan), France Telecom, Korea Telecom, Telefonica, and Turk Telecom, among the more than 200 carriers worldwide.

In greater Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Redback manages 21+ million broadband subscribers today, including 7+ million in France, 5.5+ million in the United Kingdom, 3.5+ million in Germany, 3+ million in Turkey, 1+ million in Belgium and 1+ million in Israel. Across EMEA, Redback routers help telephone carriers manage a variety of data, voice and video services, also known as triple-play services. Typical network applications managed by SmartEdge routers in EMEA include broadband access (e.g. high-speed Internet service), edge routing (e.g. VoIP service) and Ethernet aggregation (e.g. TV and other video services). -Redback Networks