Optical Networks’ Dynamic Transport System includes DWDM transport, an optical link management protocol suite for internetworking data and transport layers, and an integrated network operating system. The DWDM optical transport equipment provides optical layer switching, dynamic add-drop on all optical channels and flexible-rate client interfaces for ring, arbitrary ring-mesh and full-mesh topologies.  Up to 66 wavelengths are supported.  The system is being designed to maintain interoperability with existing SONET systems while offering interfaces for OC-3/12/48 (STM-1/4/16), Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, POS and ATM services.  

Optical Networks received an additional $75 million in funding from strategic partners and financial institutions, including Bowman Capital Management, Amerindo, Integral Capital, J. & W. Seligman and Mohr, Davidow Ventures. Strategic partners/investors include Brocade, Juniper Networks, E-TEK Dynamics and Williams Communications.  Total funding in the firm now stands at $125 million.  The San Jose-based company is preparing to open a 58,000 sq. ft. facility in April to expand production capacity for its Metro optical networking products.  http://www.opticalnetworks.com
Optical Networks, January 23, 2000

Optical Networks is led by Hugh Martin, previously entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and formerly president of The 3DO Company.

DTI NETWORKS INTRODUCES ITS WEB-BASED PLATFORM FOR CUSTOMIZED VOICE SERVICES
DTI Networks introduced a feature creation architecture that leverages a Virtual Voice Services architecture and Web technology to enable voice services over current and next-generation voice/packet networks.  DTI Networks’ Telecommunication Services Portal (TSP) and CSX 2100 switching platform essentially decouple call processing from switching, enabling carriers to take advantage of rapid advances in switching hardware.  The TSP, which operates as a call control server for circuit switched and packet/cell-based networks, uses Call Policy Markup Language (CPML), an open extension of XML created by DTI, to migrate the CLASS features and enhanced services of the telecommunications network out of proprietary operating systems.  The company’s CSX 2100 is a NEBs-compliant switching platform designed for smaller central offices. It supports both Class 4 and 5 applications on a single platform, and offers capacity for up to 40,000 subscribers. Beta testing begins this quarter.  DTI is a privately held company based in Boca Raton, Florida.

Separately, DTI Networks announced its first customer for the TSP and CSX 2100:  Koyote Telephone, a CLEC based in Texas, which plans an initial service rollout in five cities beginning in Q2.   http://www.dtinetworks.com
DTI Networks, January 24, 2000

SYNDESIS RAISES $33 MILLION IN VENTURE FUNDING FOR SERVICE CREATION SOFTWARE
Syndesis Limited, a privately-held company based in Toronto, raised US$33 million in venture funding to support its rollout of automated service creation and activation software for the new public network.  The company’s off-the-shelf service creation and activation software supports leading DSL network equipment and offers open interfaces to legacy OSS applications.  NorthPoint Communications recently selected the system for consistent service creation and activation of its DSL subscribers.  The Syndesis software has been licensed by Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies and is sold under their own private label brand names. http://www.syndesis.com/
Syndesis, January 23, 2000

GLOBAL CROSSING DELIVERS OC-48C IP WAVELENGTH ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Global Crossing launched the world's first transatlantic IP connection via an optical wavelength link, interfacing at OC-48c / STM16.  The 2.5 Gbps connection is carrying commercial traffic between New York and London over the Atlantic Crossing 1cable.  Global Crossing is using Cisco 12016 Series Routers in its network data centers.  http://www.globalcrossing.com/pressreleases/pr_012100.htm
Global Crossing, January 21, 2000

Frontier GlobalCenter (now part of Global Crossing) deployed its first IP/DWDM link in July 1998 along a Los Angeles to San Francisco segment.

FIRST PHASE OF CHINA-US PACIFIC CABLE ENTERS SERVICE
The first transpacific link of a new cable linking China and the US entered commercial service.  When fully completed later this year, the China-US cable network will be configured as a full ring system consisting of four fiber pairs, each operating at 20 Gbps.  The cable is operated by a consortium that includes consortium include AT&T, China Telecom, HKTI (Hong Kong), ITDC (Taiwan), Japan Telecom, KDD, Korea Telecom, MCI, NTT Japan, SBC Communications, Singapore Telecom, Sprint, Star (USA), Teleglobe, Telstra and Telekom Malaysia.   http://www.telstra.com.au/newsroom/release.cfm?ReleaseID=3941
Telstra, January 21, 2000