Using Prisma IP TLS, cable operators can provide commercial customers with multi-site, extended-area LAN services to connect geographically dispersed sites over the operator's network, says a company release. With help of the Prisma IP platform, the complexity of intra-network connectivity is greatly reduces as it eliminates the need for TDM (Time Division Multiplex) private lines, frame-relay, ATM or layer 3 Virtual Private Networks.

The MPLS/RPR technology solution can significantly reduce the number of routers required to handle network traffic. This delivers a less complex network architecture that affords more bandwidth control, only uses routers where required at a few core locations, and reduces the network's cost by lowering the amount of router hardware and operations overhead required, says the release.

Cable operators already using the Prisma IP platform to deliver other data and voice services can begin offering TLS applications to their commercial customers immediately.

According to Scientific-Atlanta vice president and general manager of emerging businesses Paul Connolly, "MSOs are looking to expand their offerings into the commercial services market, and Prisma IP TLS offers them an efficient and immediate way to do so. As with most Prisma IP applications, TLS can be implemented across a network using point-and-click provisioning to reduce service operation complexity by consolidating service creation to one management system. This benefit, paired with its simple plug-and-play connectivity, gives service providers the ability to reduce capital and operational costs, improve fiber efficiency and increase the speed of new service deployment."