Data Connection Limited (DCL) has released its Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) product, DC-BGP, which forms part of its Internet Protocol (IP) Routing Suite and has been architected specifically for the reliability, scalability and extensibility requirements for today's Internet and next-generation networks. It supports virtual routing, including BGP/MPLS virtual private networks (VPNs) in accordance with RFC 2547.

DC-BGP is a fully portable, source-code solution that can be easily integrated with DC-Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and DCL's other IP routing protocol stacks (including DC-OSPF and DC-ISIS), or can be used on its own or with third-party products. An optional, highly scalable Routing Table Manager component provides a flexible policy engine to control sharing of routing information with other protocols (typically sharing between an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) and Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP).

DCL's IP Routing Suite supports virtual routing, with different routing tables for different users. DC-BGP develops this further with a VPN Manager component for providing RFC 2547 BGP/MPLS VPNs. The VPN Manager extends the routing policy rules -- for example, providing an intelligent and efficient solution for maintaining private per-VPN routing information alongside shared Internet routes.

DCL has carried out an extensive requirements assessment by consulting major customers and carriers. This process is ongoing, thereby ensuring that DC-BGP and DCL's other IP routing solutions are tailored to the needs of the market, with the ability to:

• Handle millions of routes with no hard-coded limits

• Support non-stop forwarding

• Distribute routing tables to multiple locations, enabling distributed processing and ensuring that there is no single point of failure

• Scale to many thousands of independent routing tables, as required by virtual routers and BGP/MPLS VPNs.

DC-BGP runs within DCL's existing high-performance portable execution environment -- the N-BASE. This provides extensive scalability and flexibility and enables the distribution of protocol components across different hardware configurations. The N-BASE has been ported to a large number of operating systems, including the SolarisTM Operating Environment (Solaris OE), VxWorks, OSE, pSOS, Chorus, Nucleus, HP-UX and Windows NT, and has been used on all common processors, including SPARCR, x86, i960, Motorola 860 and 8260, IDT and MIPS. Proprietary OSs and chipsets can be supported with minimal effort. In addition, pre-ported solutions are available on a range of operating systems including Solaris OE, VxWorks, OSE, Linux, LynxOS and Windows.

Data Connection Limited is an independent developer and supplier of IP routing, conferencing, unified messaging, directory and SNA portable products. Customers include Sun, Calient, Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM Corp., Lucent, Microsoft, Nortel Networks and Sycamore. Its MetaSwitch division develops and manufactures a carrier-class next-generation Class 5 switch for telecommunications service providers. Data Connection is headquartered in London, with U.S. offices in Reston, VA and Alameda, CA.

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