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TERAWAVE
ADDS LAN-SWITCHING TO ITS PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (PON) ACCESS
SOLUTION
Terawave Communications introduced a Passive
Optical Network (PON) LAN switch module designed for high-speed
Internet Access and Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)
applications. The
module provides up to nine 10/100 Mbps LAN service ports for each
one of Terawave's TW-300 customer premise PON access units and
allows VLAN definition by port groups and MAC addresses, as well
as support for IEEE 802.1Q fully tagged frame formats, enabling
port membership in multiple overlapping VLANs.
The solution also supports traffic filtering based on
source and destination MAC addresses, using static and dynamic
network address learning rules.
Terawave's PON architecture is based on custom ASICs and a
Service Adaptive Lightpath Switching Architecture that makes QoS
and lightpath switching decisions, allowing bandwidth to be
statistically shared among subscribers and guaranteeing a
specified amount of bandwidth for each stream.
The platform is topology agnostic and supports tree, star,
bus and ring architectures. http://www.terawave.com/
Terawave, June 5, 2000
LUXN
LAUNCHES VOICE AND FAST ETHERNET OVER SINGLE WAVELENGTH
LuxN, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced
a new feature set that enables its optical access system to
multiplex TDM-based traffic (voice and data channels) and
Fast Ethernet (10/100Base-T) over a single wavelength. The
multiplexed wavelength can be added to other wavelengths carrying
Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel or OC-n traffic over a single pair
of fiber. The add-in card consolidates up to four T-1s and one
10/100 Base-T. The
LuxN WavSystem platform supports metropolitan Gigabit Ethernet or
Fibre Channel over point-to-point, cascaded multi-drop, access
ring and redundant star network configurations.
The system extends to 70 km without amplification and
supports 16-channel WDM, fixed optical add/drop multiplexing,
optical path protection switching, enhanced remote provisioning
and graphical interfaces for element management.
http://www.luxn.com/
LuxN, June 5, 2000
- Last week, LuxN announced the
closure of $50 million in third round venture financing. .
Investors include Azure Capital Partners, Credit Suisse First
Boston Merchant Bank, JDS Uniphase, CommVest, Storm Ventures,
New Enterprise Associates, US Venture Partners, Menlo
Ventures, Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Siemens. The company is
based in Sunnyvale, California.
ADVA
TO ACQUIRE FIRST FIBRE LTD. FOR ITS LAN EXTENSION EXPERTISE
ADVA Optical Networking will acquire First Fibre Ltd., a privately
held developer of fiber access equipment, for about EUR 88 million
(US$83 million) in stock. First
Fibre offer line of modular, multi-protocol, carrier-class systems
for fiber access and local area network (LAN) extension for links
of up to 60 km on single mode fiber.
Transceiver cards are offered for 10/100 Ethernet, 10/100
Ethernet Switched, 155 Mbps ATM, 622 Mbps ATM, Gigabit Ethernet,
Fibre Channel and E1-T1. First
Fibre also offers a full line of media converters and repeaters
for campus LANs. The
company is based in York, UK and has 70 employees, including a
team of ASIC designers. ADVA
said the First Fibre products complement its Fiber Service
Platform (FSP) DWDM family for metro networks.
http://www.advaoptical.com/
http://www.firstfiber.com
ADVA, June 2, 2000
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In
February, ADVA announced plans to acquire Storage Area
Networks Ltd., a developer of a switching system combining Fibre
Channel, SCSI, ATM and Gigabit Ethernet, for approximately
US$83 million in stock. Storage
Area Networks (SAN) recently introduced its second-generation
switch gateway that enables full Fibre Channel and SCSI
connectivity, over any distance, across ATM or Gigabit
Ethernet connections. Storage Area Networks (SAN) is
based in Cambridge, UK.
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ADVA
also acquired Cellware Broadband GmbH, a privately held
developer of ATM-based integrated access devices, for
approximately US$22.9 million in stock.
Cellware Broadband is based in Berlin, Germany.
ADVA
ANNOUNCES OEM AGREEMENT WITH SIEMENS
Siemens AG Information and Communications Networks agreed
to resell ADVA's Fiber Service Platform-I (FSP-I) and FSP-II on an
OEM basis in Asia-Pacific, Europe and South America.
ADVA's FSP-I platform supports data transfer rates from 10
Mbps to 1.25 Gbps. The FSP-II is a 32-channel DWDM system
supporting rates up to 2.5 Gbps. The DWDM system supports
Gigabit Ethernet, packet over SONET, ESCON/FICON, ATM and Fiber
Channel. http://www.advaoptical.com/
ADVA, June 2, 2000
E-TEK
DYNAMICS BUILDS ITS COMPONENTS INTO INTEGRATED OPTICAL MODULES
E-TEK Dynamics formed a
separate business unit to offer integrated optical modules,
including solutions for protection switching, EDFAs and
configurable add/drop modules.
The company also released 3 new components: a compact
Optical Performance Monitor with wavelength locking; a 40 channel
Arrayed Waveguide Grating DWDM module; and 100 and 50 GHz
interleavers which can be used to multiply channel count for
systems requiring terabit capacity.
http://www.e-tek.com/corporate/pressreleases/060200.html
E-TEK Dynamics, June 2, 2000
GDC
TEAMS WITH TAQUA SYSTEMS FOR NEXT GENERATION PACKET VOICE AND DATA
General DataComm (GDC) is partnering with Taqua Systems, a
start-up building a softswitching platform, to provide a
full-service packet switching system.
The partnership matches GDC’s NexEra 6400 and 6600 packet
voice and data gateways with Taqua’s Open Compact Exchange [OCX]
Class 5 access switch. GDC’s
NexEra platform, which was the first to support standards-based,
variable bit rate (VBR) AAL2 VoATM (8 kbps, 32 kbps compression),
serves as a gateway between packet-based and circuit switched
networks. It also
provides guaranteed QoS through Multi-Tier Shaping features,
enabling priority transport of high-revenue, pay-per-use services.
Taqua's Open Compact Exchange (OCX) will offer
Carrier Class 5 Switching, Carrier Class 4 Tandem Switching, SS7
Signaling Gateway functions, Voice Over ATM gateway functions and
wireless local access capabilities.
The Taqua design puts all switching functions on line trunk
cards that plug into a high capacity midplane.
An open API is used for high levels of software control
over the services. http://www.gdc.com
GDC, June 5, 2000
BELL
ATLANTIC SELECTS GDC'S MPEG2/ATM VIDEO SOLUTION
Bell
Atlantic selected General DataComm's (GDC's) MAC 500 platform and
TODD Communications' TC Reliance video system management software
for providing interactive video services to customers in 13
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States and the District of Columbia.
Target applications include distance education and
tele-conferencing for judicial, medical and corporations.
The contract was valued at $16 million. http://www.gdc.com
GDC, June 2, 2000
REDBACK
INVESTS IN TELICA FOR SOFTSWITCHING PLATFORM
Redback Networks formed a strategic partnership
with Telica, a start-up developing a next generation SS7-based
multi-service switching architecture.
The deal includes an undisclosed equity investment in the
Marlboro, Mass.-based company.
The Telica SS7 solution is being designed to aggregate and
normalize traffic from all types of access devices. http://www.telica.com
Telica, June 5, 2000
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In
February, Telica secured
a $6.5-million first round of financing from Highland Capital
Partners and Prism Venture Partners.
The company was co-founded by John
St. Amand and Charles (Chuck) Bates, both formerly with
Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC).
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