Broadband Remote Access Server

3NO's ISSANNI 1000 offers tier-2 and tier-3 ISPs a scalable solution for providing and delivering broadband connectivity and value added services.

By Wayne Kawamoto

3NO Systems announced the availability of its ISSANNI 1000, a new broadband remote access server (B-RAS). This new technology promises a cost-effective solution that will let ISPs provision, deliver, and manage high-speed Internet access, which includes DSL, cable, and wireless broadband services, to business and residential customers.

Targeted towards small and medium-sized ISPs, the ISSANNI 1000 is supposed to simplify how broadband service is delivered by providing a plug-and-play system that transparently configures customers. Also, as a networking device that links DSL Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs) and backbone routers, the ISSANNI 1000 can offer a centralized point to provision and manage DSL, cable, and wireless broadband subscribers.

According to 3NO, the ISSANNI 1000 serves as a gateway, which provides "always on" Internet connectivity. Using the ISSANNI 1000, the company says that ISPs can provision and manage high-speed Internet access subscribers and offer a broad range of revenue-generating solutions, such as priority queuing within a virtual circuit, Network Address Translation (NAT), and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) services.

In addition, the company says that ISPs can leverage the ISSANNI 1000's patented communications technology to expand their offerings to include new solutions that support e-commerce, interactive entertainment, voice-over-IP, video-on-demand, and a variety of differentiated applications.

Broadband for tier-2 and tier-3 ISPs

3NO says that prior to the introduction of the ISSANNI 1000, broadband connectivity was beyond the reach of tier-2 and tier-3 ISPs because of the significant financial investment that was necessary to provision, deploy, and manage such connectivity. Previously, the only technology available to ISPs was costly router upgrades and high-end access concentrators.

Two features that are supposed to be unique to the ISSANNI 1000 are 3NO's SoftFlow architecture and AutoProtocol technology. SoftFlow is the company's soft packet queuing architecture that's designed to perform data prioritization, and provides the ability to offer new and differentiated services to the customer, without intervention from the network provider. AutoProtocol lets ISPs install the ISSANNI 1000 with minimal provisioning costs and quick customer turnup by automatically determining the network parameters that must be configured in other vendor's equipment.

"3NO Systems realized that the mid-tier market, the tier-2 and tier-3 ISPs, have been vastly ignored by the industry," explained Allan Chu, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of 3NO Systems, Inc. "With the ISSANNI 1000, we are able to equip these ISPs with an extremely powerful broadband platform, that is cost-effective, easy to manage, and easy to scale, enabling them to offer broadband connectivity solutions similar to those provided by tier-1 ISPs."

Pricing and Availability
Available today, the ISSANNI 1000 is priced at $15,000 for a base configuration.

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