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Cabletron Systems Cabletron Systems was a manufacturer of networking computer equipment throughout the 1980s and 1990s primarily based in Rochester, New Hampshire, in the United States. They also had manufacturing facilities in Ironton, Ohio, and in Ireland. Hist ...

Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business u ...

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Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel–Lucent S.A. () was a French–American global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being a su ...

Riverstone Networks, was a provider of networking switching hardware based in Santa Clara, California. Originally part of

, and based on an early acquisition of YAGO, it was one of the many Gigabit Ethernet startups in the mid-1990s. It is now a part of

and its operations are being wound down via a Chapter 11 filing by their current owners.

Company history

* 7 February 2006 - Riverstone's partner

signed an Asset Purchase agreement to acquire Riverstone Networks * 21 March 2006 -

wins the auction for Riverstone Networks over rival Ericsson. The final price was $207 million * 18 April 2006 -

are currently in the process of a merger of equals with

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* 1 December 2006 -

completed the process of a merger of equals with

. Assets of Riverstone Networks are now part of

Products

All of Riverstone Networks products were geared towards IP over

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, often for a

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solution. All the products were multilayer

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(or switch-routers) and specialized in

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on labels rather than network addresses. Whereas network addresses identify endpoints the labels identif ...

VPNs A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network. The be ...

15000 Family

The 15000 Family (referred to as the 15K) differed from the RS family as the 15K is not flow-based. Flow-based routers use the main

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to process new flows and packets through the switch. The 15K differed by letting the line card processors do the work for the network traffic, leaving the main CPU to work on the system itself. This type of network processing is similar to Cisco's dCEF. The 15K products were based on a different operating system than other Riverstone products, called ROS-X. It was designed to be modular and more like the common

command line interface A command-line interpreter or command-line processor uses a command-line interface (CLI) to receive commands from a user in the form of lines of text. This provides a means of setting parameters for the environment, invoking executables and pro ...

of Cisco. * 15008 - The highest performance product from Riverstone. It supported a 96 port 10/100 Ethernet card, 12 or 24 port 1GB Ethernet cards and 1 or 2 port 10GB Ethernet cards. Support for ATM and PoS was planned. * 15100/15200 - Designed with the same architecture and operating system as the 15008, the 15100 and 15200 were designed more for an access/distribution network role. They were semi-modular in design with some fixed 1G Ethernet ports and GBIC uplinks for either 1GB or 10GB.

RS Family

The RS family of products were flow-based multilayer switches. They ran ROS software, which had a command line interface but could also be configured via

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. * 1x00 - Fixed hardware configuration * 3x00 - Semi-modular in design, came with 32 fixed 100BaseT Ethernet ports and 2 modular bays * 8x00 - Fully modular hardware, came in either 8 slot (8000) or 16 slot (8600) versions. The modules for the 8x00 included Control Modules, 100BaseT Ethernet, 1000BaseT Ethernet, 1000BaseX GibabitEthernet with interchangeable GBICs, including PoS, ATM, Serial, T1/E1, and T3/E3. * 38000 - Fully modular hardware, differed from the rest of the RS range physically due to the modular slots being vertical.

ES Family

* ES 2010 - Fixed 24 10/100 port multilayer switch designed for network access/network edge role. It had two GBIC ports for 1G Ethernet uplinks. The ES range did not support WAN ports or MPLS. Networking companies of the United States Defunct networking companies