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KDDI Announces Furukawa Electric Shipments of the FITELnet-F120 Broadband Router with Full CDMA 1X WIN Support
KDDI Corporation
Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd.
2005/01/24
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KDDI is pleased to announce that Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. began shipping the "FITELnet-F120" Broadband Router at the end of January. These routers support CDMA 1X WIN, the high-speed data communications service provided by KDDI's au mobile telephones. The FITELnet-F120 carries the well-received VPN (Ipsec [1]) and Backup features popular in the FITELnet-F Series. By installing a "W01K" CDMA 1X WIN card, the new router can provide WAN service with up to 2.4 Mbps high-speed communications using the CDMA 1X WIN network.
In partnership with Furukawa Electric, KDDI is selling "FITELnet-F120", mainly for corporate use in WAN Backup services such as "KDDI IP-VPN Service" and "KDDI Internet VPN Service". KDDI will be providing nation-wide, uniform installation pricing, a unified maintenance line, and nation-wide on-site maintenance services (weekday 9am-5pm and 24h x 365 day services).
Corporate networks are rapidly moving to broadband, and to improve the reliability of these networks, the number of companies preparing backup connections for their WAN Services is increasing dramatically. Untill now, many companies have operated their networks using a FTTH or ADSL line as their main broadband connection, and for a backup connection they have chosen an ISDN line because it is used infrequently. However, because ISDN is narrow-band, users are often forced to limit their applications when using the backup line. This has led to a demand for broadband WAN services suitable for use with the frequency of a backup line.
Demand has also been increasing for temporary office network connections (e.g. for use at non-permanent events like trade shows, etc.) where wired connection contracts are difficult to arrange. "FITELnet-F120" has been developed to meet just these needs.
KDDI is the only company supplying both fixed-rate and mobile communications services and is proactively developing FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) products to differentiate itself from competing companies.
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IPSec: Method for implementing a VPN (Virtual Private Network) defined by an IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) working group. Data (packets) to be Transmitted is encrypted to prevent interception or alteration en-route, tunneled through another network, and decrypted, creating a network which guarantees security. |
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