Laurel unveils demand-creation plan

摘要

Pittsburgh ― Edge router newcomer Laurel Networks last week entered the profitable-service/demand-creation plan market with a program designed to chart the feasibility of carrier technology upgrades. The 3-year-old company unveiled First-STEP, a "strategic technology evolution" program providing financial analysis, back-office integration, and device and network validation tools to guide carriers through a technology overhaul at the edge of their networks. The goal of the overhaul is to replace legacy gear with systems ― Laurel's ST200 routers ― that support packet-based multiservice networking capabilities.