Motorola Mobility and WESCO's TVC Communications Deliver Flexible Carrier Ethernet Portfolio to Service Providers
Relationship Gives North American Service Providers More Options for Scaling to True Multi-Service Networks
HORSHAM, Pa., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Motorola Mobility is working with WESCO International's subsidiary, TVC Communications, to offer its Carrier Ethernet portfolio--an end-to-end component system designed to give service providers a competitive advantage in vying for the more than 130 billion-dollar(1) advanced business services and mobile backhaul solutions market.
Motorola's Carrier Ethernet portfolio offers an end-to-end MEF Certified solution to help service providers deploy cost-effective Ethernet and TDM services to business customers and mobile carriers. The portfolio includes a series of aggregation switches, customer premises demarcation products, a leading-edge service management platform, and an innovative 10 Gbps Carrier Ethernet switch designed for deployment in the HFC fiber node. With Motorola's wide array of Carrier Ethernet products, service providers can extend end-to-end Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) to the edge of their network, increasing scalability and facilitating a true multi-service network.
"Businesses want relationships with service providers that can provide highly resilient Ethernet connectivity ranging from tens of megabits to gigabits," said Joe Cozzolino, senior vice president and general manager, Network Infrastructure Solutions, Motorola Mobility. "Through our strategic agreement with WESCO's TVC Communications, Motorola's Carrier MEF Certified Ethernet solution offers service providers the flexibility to service business customers or mobile operators with low-cost deployment opportunities via existing outside plant or new fiber builds addressing various business services applications. With Motorola's end-to-end business services portfolio customers can launch new, revenue-generating business services quickly, easily and cost-effectively."
"Motorola's innovation in network infrastructure, and now in Carrier Ethernet products, is compelling expertise that we're very pleased to offer to our customers throughout North America," said David Bemoras, Vice President of Operations at WESCO Distribution. "Now, with Motorola's offerings, WESCO's TVC Communications' customers can preserve their existing network investments or leverage new fiber builds to quickly become part of the business services marketplace. Our relationship with Motorola extends over many years and across many of their product areas. We look forward to quickly incorporating Motorola's new Carrier Ethernet line of products into our overall offering."