IP Infusion Joins Photonic Internet Lab As A Participating Member

January 31, 2005, San Jose, California – IP Infusion Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network software for enhanced IP services, announced today that the company has joined the Photonic Internet Laboratory Research Project as a Participating Member. The Photonic Internet Lab, or PIL Laboratory, is a research and development consortium founded to realize new photonic network control protocols based on photonic technologies for managed networks and to encourage global standardization activities.

The PIL Laboratory was founded in Autumn 2002 by 7 companies including Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), NEC Corporation, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. and Hitachi, Ltd. Photonic Internet Lab activities are supported by research and development aimed at acquiring international technical standards as part of the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Scheme of the Japanese MPHPT (Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications) for funding selected IT activities. It has two activity streams: 1) Advanced code testing for optimizing new GMPLS protocols and 2) Standardization efforts with running code. The PIL has successfully demonstrated Multi-layer (Multi-area), Multi-vender Multi-route GMPLS operation.

“With the rise of next-generation applications, such as VoIP and video-on-demand, the need for networks with more bandwidth is becoming imperative. Photonics networks are the essential solution,” said Kunihiro Ishiguro, IP Infusion Co-Founder and CTO. “Our participation in the Photonic Internet Lab shows our steadfast commitment to helping network equipment vendors deliver cutting edge solutions to the market with best of breed technology.”

Technical Background
MPLS has been widely recognized as the technology of choice in optical core networks because it can introduce traffic engineering to a variety of networking technologies. However, MPLS falls short of providing common control and traffic engineering for wavelength, TDM and fiber switching. The evolution of the optical network, as well as the need to support legacy networks, has generated the requirement for a more comprehensive and enhanced protocol.

A generalized version of MPLS, known as GMPLS, has been proposed to address this need and serve in a variety of network signaling layers, extending capabilities beyond those networks that are only packet or cell-based. GMPLS promises a seamless interconnection and convergence of new and legacy networks by allowing end-to-end provisioning, control and traffic engineering even when the start and the end nodes belong to heterogeneous networks.

About IP Infusion
IP Infusion, the leading provider of intelligent network software for enhanced IP services platforms, delivers routing, switching, multicast, and QoS technology enabling equipment vendors and end-users to rapidly develop and deploy solutions for the access, enterprise, and provider edge markets. IP Infusion has extended its software to allow vendors to address a wide variety of value-added IP services markets. IP Infusion continues to develop network software solutions that provide equipment vendors with building blocks to rapidly create modular and scalable high-performance solutions around best-of-breed network hardware and software products from vendors such as Intel, Broadcom, Wind River, and MontaVista. Its software is deployed worldwide in network equipment in the enterprise, telecommunications, and service provider spaces throughout Asia, North America, and Europe. IP Infusion has both gained design wins in the enterprise and security solutions markets and taken a leadership position in the growing IPv6, virtualization, and high-availability network equipment market. For more information about IP Infusion, please visit www.ipinfusion.com.

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