CHROMATIS
INTEGRATES MULTISERVICE SWITCHING INTO METRO OPTICAL
Chromatis Networks
unveiled a central office platform combining optical transport
with packet, TDM, and cell switching.
The new Metropolis system multiplexes TDM, ATM, and IP
services over a single wavelength, while offering unified
operations and management control.
Chromatis will offer a high-density Metropolis system for
large central offices, providing the transport capacity for 32
fully configured SONET rings, the switching capacity of a 70 Gbps
core ATM switch, and the grooming capabilities of a 70 Gbps
broadband cross-connect. The
company will also introduce a smaller version that acts as a service
aggregation platform with integrated ATM switching, broadband
SONET cross-connect functionality, and multi-wavelength optical
transport. The
Metropolis system incorporates Chromatis' Selective
Wave Division Multiplexing (SWDM) architecture, which allows
delivery of one or more wavelengths to those sites on a
metropolitan fiber ring that require multi-gigabit capacities,
while allowing other sites on the same ring to share
less-expensive bandwidth that is not based on DWDM. The Chromatis
SWDM platform creates two rings on the same fiber: one is an
inexpensive single- channel ring that is shared by all network
elements and runs at 1310 nanometers, and the second is a
multi-channel DWDM ring running at 1550 nanometers. Chromatis
technology manages the two separate wavelength regions to make
them appear as a single network. All sites can communicate at a
variety of speeds using the 1310nm-shared ring, while only the
sites that need very high bandwidth tap into one or more of the
1550nm DWDM wavelengths. The
Metropolis products are commercially available; pricing
starts at under $30,000. http://www.chromatis.com
Chromatis Network, March 2000
- Chromatis has received $50
million in funding to date from leading venture capitalists
including Crosspoint, ComVentures, Jerusalem Venture Partners,
Soros Private Equity, Chase Capital, Lucent Venture Partners,
and Eucalyptus Ventures.
The company is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, with
R&D in Tel Aviv, Israel.
GLOBAL
CROSSING DEPLOYS HITACHI'S OC-192 IN NYC METRO RING
Global
Crossing deployed Hitachi Telecom's AMN 5192 SONET equipment
operating at OC-192 in its New York City metro ring.
The network serves customers in New York's financial
district and will carry OC-48c traffic to and from Global
Crossing's London - New York submarine link and the company's
North American Crossing Network.
The four-fiber BLSR configuration includes nodes in New
York City and Newark, New Jersey.
http://www.hitel.com
Hitachi Telecom, March 8, 2000
OPLINK
COMMUNICATIONS RAISES $44 MILLION FOR ITS OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Oplink
Communications, a start-up developing a line of optical
components, secured $44 million in new financing from Crescendo
Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners and previous investors.
The company's product line includes EDFA components, DWDM
filters and wavelength lockers, and signal routing devices.
At this week's OFC conference,
Oplink unveiled a mini 300GHz/100GHz/50GHz, true passive
interleaver, which can be integrated with multiplexers, optical
switches and programmable ADD/DROP systems.
Oplink is based in San Jose, California.
http://www.oplink.com/
Oplink Communications, March 9, 2000
ARROYO
OPTICS TARGETS ALL-OPTICAL COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS
Arroyo Optics, a
start-up based in Santa Monica, California, announced its entry
into the optical components business.
The company will leverage Fused Fiber Bragg Gratings (FFBG)
technology to offer all-optical devices for DWDM.
Products include optical add/drop multiplexer systems and
an Optical Interleaver module designed to split a 100 Ghz spaced
DWDM channel stream into two, 200 Ghz spaced DWDM streams.
The company recently closed a $20 million round of venture
capital financing with the backing of Summit Accelerator Fund,
Brentwood Venture Capital and ComVentures. http://www.arroyooptics.com/
Arroyo Optics, March
7, 2000
PMC-SIERRA
ANNOUNCES HIGHEST DENSITY T1/E1 FOR VOICE GATEWAYS AND INTERNET
ACCESS EQUIPMENT
PMC-Sierra
introduced a four-channel T1, E1, and J1 framer with integrated
analog Line Interface Unit (LIU) designed for multi-service access
equipment, Voice over DSL (VoDSL) and Voice over IP (VoIP)
Gateways, Wireless Base Stations and Digital Loop Carrier systems.
The solution allows manufacturers to pack 32 T1 lines on a
single board using only 8 chips.
Cisco Systems is using PMC Sierra's single channel COMET
device as a low power T1/E1 solution for our MGX8260 Media
Gateway. The new
device will support four T1/E1 interfaces in the same space.
http://www.pmc-sierra.com/pressRoom/pr/2000030701.html
PMC-Sierra, March 7, 2000
IAXIS
TO OPEN 19 EUROPEAN HOSTING CENTERS
Iaxis will invest in
excess of $200 million to open 19 Web-hosting facilities in major
cities across Europe. iaxis
is a venture-backed group building a carrier's carrier network
throughout Europe. It also offers carrier hotel facilities and its
own IP/DWDM backbone. Phase
One of the Iaxis network -- a 3,000 km ring linking London, Paris,
Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp
and Brussels -- is currently operational.
A second phase extends the iaxis network into Switzerland,
central France and Germany.
http://www.iaxisbv.com/
iaxis, March 9, 2000
FORMER
AVICI SYSTEMS EXECUTIVE JOINS ADERO, A START-UP FOCUSED ON GLOBAL
CONTENT DISTRIBUTION
Adero,
a start-up building a global content distribution service, named
Ralph A. Goldwasser as its executive vice president and chief
financial officer. Goldwasser formerly was CFO of Avici Systems, a
developer of terabit switch/routers, and previously was CFO at BBN/GTE
Internetworking and its Lightstream ATM division.
Adero is based in Boston.
http://www.adero.com
Adero, March 9, 2000
- Adero
recently unveiled a network architecture designed for rapid
deployment of Web content, distributed applications and
e-commerce services. Core
features of the service include intelligent
routing of static and dynamic Web site content to distribution
nodes in 30 countries, customer traffic logging and reporting
capabilities, network monitoring, and customer billing.
Adero also supports multicasting of live media streams,
which reduces network bandwidth by transmitting one stream
from the origin server to an Adero node near the end-users.
The company's Commerce service will distribute
transaction processing to the edge of the Adero network,
nearer to customers. The
distribution network also provides localization, including
local payment methods, currencies and languages.
SAUDI
TELECOM SELECTS LUCENT'S OPTICAL PLATFORM
Saudi
Telecom awarded two contracts valued at US$145 million to Lucent
Technologies for its WaveStar OLS 80G DWDM, WaveStar ADM 16/1
optical transport, GX550 Smart Core ATM
and B-STDX 9000
WAN switches, and PacketStar Access Concentrators.
http://www.lucent.com
Lucent
Technologies, March 9, 2000
TELSTRA
TO EXCHANGE WHOLESALE TRAFFIC WITH DELTATHREE.COM
Telstra,
the leading Australian telecom service provider, agreed to send a
portion of its international minutes for termination over
deltathree.com's global IP telephony network. deltathree.com will
terminate calls bound for the Asia Pacific region and other global
destinations over Telstra's global network.
Deltathree.com hailed the contract as an example of a Tier
I carrier embracing international VOIP.
http://www.deltathree.com/
Deltathree.com, March 9, 2000
EANTC
ANNOUNCES ANOTHER PNNI GROUP TESTING EVENT, APRIL 3-5, 2000.
The European Advanced
Networking Test Center at the Technical
University Berlin announces the next interoperability test session
focusing on hierarchical PNNI.
EANTC hosted a successful PNNI interoperability testing
event in December 1999. This
next test session will focus especially on multi-hierarchical
interoperability aspects. For further information visit: http://www.eantc.com/
EANTC AG, March 6, 2000
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