Ascend

Alliance Datacom is a reseller of Ascend Communications. Alliance Datacom also carries refurbished Ascend Communications equipment available for resale.

In June 1999, Lucent Technologies completed the merger with Ascend Communications and created the InterNetworking Systems unit to focus on delivering next-generation, broadband networks.

Ascend Links:

• Ascend Max Family
  The MAX family of WAN (wide area network) access switches accommodates the remote networking needs of service providers and enterprises.
• Ascend STDX 9000 Switch
  Lucent B-STDX 8000/9000? multiservice WAN switches offer carrier-class, cost-effective, and feature-rich frame relay, IP, and ATM services....
• Ascend Pipeline P75 and P130 Routers
  Ascend Communications has a reputation for taking the high road with its products, and its routers are no exception...
• Refurbished Ascend Communications Units
  Alliance datacom has hundreds of refurbished units with full 120-day warranties. Get a repair quote for all of Ascend's Products from Alliance Datacom's Ascend Repair Center.

Ascend has extensive experience in building carrier and ISP networks, providing enterprise connections to these public network facilities, and in providing enterprise WANs. Today the majority of the leading international Post and Telephone companies (PTTs), global carriers and network service providers offer Internet access using Ascend equipment. Ascend has installed more than 3,500,000 access concentrator ports at ISP, carrier, and corporate enterprise sites throughout the world. The MAX WAN access switch family accounts for over 50 percent of the worldwide market share in access concentrator analog ports, 62 percent of access concentrator ISDN PRI ports and 33 percent of access concentrator TI DSOs (source: The Dell'Oro Group, Q2 1997). Ascend equipment supports more than 30 million Internet connections daily.