SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Nov. 1, 2004 -- Redback Networks Inc. (Nasdaq:RBAK), a leading provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, today announced that Scarlet is expanding the reach and capacity of its broadband network with next-generation platforms from Redback Networks. The Redback(R) SmartEdge(R) platform enables Scarlet to expand its broadband network to strengthen its position in a competitive market and simultaneously meet the growing needs of consumers and businesses while maintaining very high reliability and flexibility for the introduction of new services. The existing Scarlet broadband network is based on Redback SMS(TM) 10000 systems.
"Redback has played an important role in the reliability and scalability of our broadband network," said Gilbert de Bree, operations director, Scarlet. "The new next-generation platform we selected from Redback will strengthen our abilities in an increasingly more demanding and competitive market. The SmartEdge platform provides an order of magnitude increase in our scaling capability and enables us to offer an entirely new portfolio of advanced services to both our consumer customer base and DSL based business users."
"We are pleased to be expanding our existing relationship with Scarlet to include a next-generation infrastructure," said Marco Wanders, vice president of sales and operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Redback Networks. "With Smart Broadband Networks from Redback, Scarlet can continue its impressive growth. As the non-incumbent competitive innovator in this exciting marketplace it is critically important that Scarlet build and maintain a broadband infrastructure that can offer both service advantages to its current and potential customers and operational efficiencies that deliver to the bottom line, the SmartEdge platform is ideally suited to this role."
The Redback SmartEdge Service Gateway platforms integrate the B-RAS strength of Redback's industry-leading SMS(TM) family of subscriber management systems with the SmartEdge platform's purpose-built hardware and software to provide subscriber management with dynamic policy enforcement, carrier-class IP routing, ATM mediation, MPLS VPNs, multicast and advanced video capabilities and high performance Quality of Service (QoS). The SmartEdge Service Gateway platform is the cornerstone for a Smart Broadband Network.
About Scarlet
Scarlet has since 1992 been active on the Dutch telecommunications market and since 1997 on the Belgian market. Scarlet has some 350 employees and about 1.5 million residential and business customers in the Benelux. Scarlet provides a complete range of services to its customers: fixed and mobile telephony and Internet services (Internet access, broadband/IP, web and server hosting). Thanks to major acquisitions in 2002 and 2003 Scarlet operates its own high tech fiber network within Belgium. Scarlet has a clear strategy: to grow in the Benelux to become the number two provider of telecommunications services. For more information on Scarlet please visit www.scarlet.be and www.scarlet.nl.
About Redback Networks
Redback Networks Inc., a leading provider of next-generation broadband networking equipment, enables carriers and service providers to build third-generation Smart Broadband Networks that can deliver simplified, personalized, portable subscriber services to consumers and businesses. The company's carrier-class, consumer-scale SmartEdge Router and Service Gateway platforms for Consumer IP combine subscriber management systems and edge routing and, in conjunction with the NetOp(TM) Element and Policy Manager platform, provide a powerful, flexible infrastructure for managing both subscribers and value-added services.
