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Providing Top-Notch Service with the Riverstone WAN

Overview Changes in the communications industry have created many opportunities and challenges for service providers. Riverstone identifies three critical characteristics of the successful service provider: footprint, speed, and aggregation. These critical factors are discussed in terms of the Riverstone Networks solution. Riverstone products are uniquely designed to help service providers overcome the new challenges, and capitalize on numerous new market opportunities

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Publisher	RiverStone Networks	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wide Area Networks (WAN)

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