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Article: Hammerhead prays to no one; Company pledges agnosticism in response to MPLS/PBT issue.(multiprotocol label switching)(provider backbone transport)(Hammerhead Systems)
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- Network World
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- May 8, 2007
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Byline: Jim Duffy
Responding to a recent report on the market prospects of an MPLS alternative for metro Ethernet, edge switch market Hammerhead
Systems this week reiterated a soul-baring confession.
It is not religious.
Hammerhead took issue with Cisco's claims at a conference last week that its implementation of Provider Backbone Transport
(PBT) alongside MPLS in its edge switch is complicated. PBT is being pitched by proponents as an alternative to MPLS and Virtual
Private LAN Services (VPLS) as a simpler, less expensive alternative for certain metro Ethernet applications.