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TERAWAVE
INTRODUCES ITS PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKING SOLUTION
Terawave
Communications, a start-up based in Hayward, California announced
a passive optical networking (PON) access system that provides a
combined bi-directional transmission of 1.2 Gbps over a single
strand of fiber, offers protection with less than 50 millisecond
protection-switching times, and is estimated to reduce initial
equipment deployment costs by 75% when compared to current SONET/SDH
solutions. Terawave,
which says it is committed to the Full Service Access Network
(FSAN) Consortium PON recommendations, will offer three network
elements: GigaPON, VirtualPON and iWDM PON.
The GigaPON is designed switch lightpaths dynamically to
meet individual service level demandsusing a patented Service
Adaptive Lightpath Switching Architecture.
The technology allows any granularity of bandwidth to be
statistically shared among subscribers, while guaranteeing a
specified amount of bandwidth for each stream.
Terawave uses custom ASICs to make the QoS and lightpath
switching decisions. Terawave's
VirtualPON technology provides Optical-Splitter-Gain
functionality, allowing a single fiber strand and low cost optical
splitters can now serve multiple business districts, containing
over a thousand PON connections.
Terawave's iWDM PON system provides Optical-Fiber-Gain
capabilities, allowing WDM channels to be added to a GigaPON
facility for transporting GigE, Fiber Channel, ESCON, IP, ATM and
SONET/SDH. Whitepapers
are online. Terawave
is led by Ray Lin, the former co-founder and CEO of Premisys.
http://www.terawave.com/
Terawave, March 8, 2000
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Last month,
Terawave secured $35
million in a second round of venture financing led by Goldman
Sachs, and including Singapore Telecom, Temasek Holdings and
its six original venture capital investors.
More
on PONs and FSAN: http://www.convergedigest.com/DWDM/pons.htm
LIGHTRADE
PLANS BANDWIDTH TRADING AT OPTICAL LEVEL
LighTrade, a start-up planning to build bandwidth trading
exchanges, awarded a $50 million contract
to Lucent for its WaveStar BandWidth Manager, optical
crossconnects and other optical networking products.
LighTrade plans to deploy carrier-neutral pooling points in
12 to 15 major US metropolitan areas in the second half of 2000.
The company will provide real-time interconnection and QoS
monitoring for capacity sold through online exchange, brokered
transactions, lead generation or aggregator services,
counterparty-to-counterparty, auction or reverse auction.
http://www.lucent.com/press/0300/000307.nsc.html
http://www.lightrade.com
Lucent, March 8, 2000
REDBACK
NETWORKS INTEGRATES SIARA'S ASIC FOR SMARTEDGE PRODUCTS
Redback
Networks completed its acquisition of Siara Systems and announced
plans for a family of multi-service platforms for aggregating
traffic onto metropolitan optical networks. Redback's forthcoming
SmartEdge products, which handle TDM and IP-based services, use
several custom ASICs to provide optical cross connects, add/drop
multiplexing, and deep packet processing functionality.
A detailed product announcement is promised for Q2.
Redback Networks also named its new management team:
Dennis Barsema (formerly Redback) is CEO, Vivek Ragavan
(formerly Siara) is president and chief operating officer.
http://www.redback.com
Redback Networks, March 8, 2000
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Redback
Networks offers a Subscriber Management System used to
aggregate traffic from DSL, cable, and wireless service POPs
onto a carrier network. Siara
Systems had previously disclosed plans for six IP/SONET ASICs,
some with up to five million gates and near 80 billion
instructions per second of combined processing performance.
The merger was first announced on November 29.
TIARA
NETWORKS ANNOUNCES MULTI-LINK FRAME RELAY, PSINET CONTRACT
Tiara Networks, a start-up
based in San Jose, California unveiled a line of aggregation
switches that support the
Multi-link Frame Relay (MFR) standards from the Frame Relay Forum.
Tiara's Series 7000 Frame Switch, which is designed
for POPs, uses Aggregated Virtual Circuit (AVC) services to
provide bandwidth access between 1.5 Mbps and 45 Mbps. Tiara's
Series 1000 Multi-Megabit Access Concentrator, which serves as
CPE, provides symmetric Internet access from 3 to 12 Mbps.
PSINet has selected the Tiara products to enhance its
dedicated access services, including its Multi Megabit Service,
which bundles up to seven T-1 lines filling the bandwidth gap
between T-1 and T-3 data rates.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.tiaranetworks.com/
Tiara Networks, March 8,
2000
PSINET
ACQUIRES TRANSCONTINENTAL DARK FIBER FROM WFI
Worldwide Fiber
Inc. (WFI) will provide PSINet with a transparent OC-48 channel
between
Vancouver and Chicago.
Worldwide Fiber will also provide PSINet with six
dark fiber strands on a
2,200
route in
eastern Canada and the northeast corridor of the US.
Financial terms of the 20-year deals were not disclosed. PSINet
now has over 1,000,000 miles of fiber worldwide. http://www.psinet.com/news/pr/00/mar8b.html
Worldwide Fiber, March 8, 2000
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Separately,
PSINet announced the acquisition of 3 more ISPs: GlobalNet in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as well as SSD and Interserver in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Worldwide
Fiber Inc. also announced plans to change its name to
360networks.
VERSATEL
AND NORTHPOINT FORM EUROPEAN DSL VENTURE
NorthPoint
Communications and VersaTel, an alternative local access provider
operating in the Benelux and the Northwest Rhine region of
Germany, will create a joint venture wholesale DSL service
provider for the EU market. VersaPoint
initially is targeting more than 2,000 central office co-locations
in the German and Dutch markets.
The new company will launch full commercial service this
summer and will operate as a wholesale service provider working
closely with European content and service providers.
Michael Malaga, current CEO of NorthPoint, has been named
CEO of VersaPoint. Liz
Fetter will take over Malaga's CEO position at NorthPoint.
http://www.northpointdsl.com
http://www.versatel.com
NorthPoint,
March 8, 2000
ALCATEL
AND JDS UNIPHASE AGREE ON WDM LASER STANDARDS
Alcatel
and JDS Uniphase reached an agreement that defines a consistent
standard for the form, footprint and electrical specifications of
an internally wavelength-locked WDM source laser.
Other companies are invited to support the specifications. http://www.jdsunph.com
JDS Uniphase, March 8, 2000
NEC
ELUMINANT TECHNOLOGIES BEGINS PON PRODUCTION
NEC Eluminant
Technologies began
production of passive optical network (PON) components
at its facilities in Hillsboro, Oregon.
The plant has the capability of producing 40,000
multiplexers and optical access terminals (OATs) per year.
NEC Eluminant's first product is the FiberSLAM,
a passive optical network system that
drives a single fiber connection. The unit can host up to
17 PON interfaces and a total of 19 slots are available to
accommodate combinations of PON cards, triple DS3 cards, and OC-N
cards. The FSLAM optically splits the fiber to connect up to 32
optical access terminals located on the customer premises. These
terminals deliver both packet- and circuit-based services. The
optical splitting is achieved by an inexpensive passive optical
splitter located in the central office or in the local loop
facility.
http://www.eluminant.com/
NEC Eluminant Technologies, March 8, 2000
DELTATHREE.COM
MOVES TO FREE, INTERNATIONAL PC-TO-PHONE CALLS
deltathree.com,
which operates an IP telephony network, dropped its $9.95 per
month flat rate fee and began offering free, unlimited PC-to-Phone
calling to the US or Canada from anywhere in the world. In the
past, deltathree.com has charged $9.95 per month for the unlimited
PC-to-phone calls. deltathree.com
is now offering a unified messaging system that aggregates email,
voicemail and faxes in one inbox; a website
"click-to-talk" application; and paid in advance,
phone-to-phone IP calling cards.
http://www.deltathree.com/
deltathree.com,
March 8, 2000
YIPES
RAISES $77 MILLION FOR ITS METRO ETHERNET SERVICES
Yipes, a start-up
service provider offering metropolitan Ethernet, secured
an additional $77 million in funding from Sprout Group/DLJ,
Norwest Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Extreme
Networks, Juniper Networks, Intel and other investors.
Yipes will offer native Ethernet up to 1 Gbps using an
IP/fiber architecture, Extreme Networks' switches and Juniper's
M40 routers at the core and M20 routers at the edge.
http://www.yipes.com
Yipes, March 8, 2000
LUCENT
VENTURE PARTNERS LAUNCHES SECOND FUND
Lucent Venture Partners
has started a second
fund, valued at $150 million.
The money is earmarked for early-stage companies in
high-growth communications markets such as optical, data and
wireless networking, communications semiconductors and software,
professional services and business-to-business e-commerce.
Lucent's first venture fund invested in 22 start-up
companies. http://www.lucent.com/press/0300/000308.coa.html
Lucent Technologies, March 8, 2000
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