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SYCAMORE
NETWORKS INTRODUCES OPTICAL
ACCESS AND EDGE SWITCHES
Sycamore Networks
introduced new optical access and edge switches featuring rapid
service provisioning, end-to-end restoration and integration with
the company's core optical network management system.
The SN 3000 is a fully redundant, carrier-class Optical
Access Switch designed to aggregate and groom TDM, ATM and IP
services onto a fast, intelligent optical core. The switch
integrates the functionality of SONET/SDH ADMs, digital
cross-connects, packet/cell switches, and optical transport.
The SN 4000 is an Optical Edge Switch that aggregates and
switches SONET/SDH streams (STS-1 up to OC-192/STM-64) and
wavelength traffic to and from access/metro area networks. The
platform features a 480-gigabit, non-blocking switch fabric
capable of supporting as many as twelve OC-192 ports or
forty-eight OC-48 ports. Intelligent
configuration software allows carriers to optimize bandwidth
consumption on each individual port.
Both products were developed by Sycamore's Optical Edge
Business Unit. Commercial
availability is expected this quarter.
http://www.sycamorenet.com/about/news/pressreleases.cfm?news_item_id=336
Sycamore
Networks, October 19, 2000
LDCOM
SELECTS SYCAMORE FOR ITS EUROPEAN OPTICAL NETWORKS
LDCOM,
a telecommunications venture backed by the Louis Dreyfus
group, selected Sycamore Network's new SN
3000 Optical Access Switch and SN 4000 Optical Edge Switch for
deployment at the edge of its metropolitan and long haul fiber
networks. LDCOM has already deployed Sycamore’s SN 8000 switches
at its optical core, enabling it to implement Sycamore’s rapid
end-to-end provisioning and restoration capabilities.
LDCOM plans to offer services in and between 20 major
European cities by mid 2001. http://www.sycamorenet.com/about/news/pressreleases.cfm?news_item_id=337
Sycamore Networks, October 19, 2000
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LDCOM
is building a 14,000 km, long-haul, European fiber backbone as
well as dense urban fiber networks and hosting centers.
The company has also formed a venture with Teligent and
Artémis to offer wireless local loop services in major
metropolitan markets throughout France.
http://www.ldcomnetworks.com
FIBERNET
PROVIDES 360NETWORKS WITH LOCAL FIBER IN NYC
FiberNet Telecom Group will provide 360networks
with metropolitan fiber, in-building networks in Class A
office buildings, and collocation space in its carrier hotels
under a five-year contract valued at $20 million.
FiberNet has lit multiple strands of fiber throughout New
York City. The company plans to bring its diversely routed SONET
ring architecture to other major business centers.
http://www.ftgx.com/
FiberNet, October 19, 2000
VANION
SELECTS COPPERCOM’S LOCAL EXCHANGE SOFTSWITCH AND VODSL
Vanion, a
Colorado-based CLEC, selected CopperCom’s LeXSS (Local Exchange
Softswitch System) to deliver voice and data services to business
and residential customers throughout Colorado.
The integrated service will provide traditional local,
data, long distance, international and enhanced subscriber
services over the same copper pair.
Under the agreement, Coppercom will supply its softswitch
system and its VoDSL products, including its central office voice
gateway and its customer premise device.
Deployment in eight cities in Colorado is expected to begin
this month. Financial
terms were not disclosed. http://www.vanion.com
http://www.coppercom.com
CopperCom, October 20, 2000
NETVOICE
CARRIES 328 MILLION MINUTES OF INTERNET TELEPHONY IN Q3, UP 150%
OVER Q2
NetVoice, which operates an Internet telephony network
with POPs across the US, carryied 328.0 million minutes of
telephony traffic in Q3, up 150% over Q2 volume of 131.0 million
minutes. http://www.netvoice.com/52.php
NetVoice, October 19, 2000
ULTRA
FAST OPTICAL SYSTEMS NAMES CEO, LICENSES OPTICAL SWITCHING FROM
PRINCETON
Ultra Fast Optical Systems, a start-up based in Princeton,
New Jersey, named Marty Singer as president and CEO.
Singer previously was CEO of SAFCO Technologies, a
developer of wireless test, measurement, software tools that was
recently acquired by Agilent Technologies.
October 19, 2000
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Ultra
Fast Optical Systems (UFOS) recently announced an agreement
with Princeton University for exclusive rights to a broad
patent portfolio covering Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM).
One of these patents describes the operation of a TeraHertz
Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer (TOAD) that is capable of
switching light with light.
The company is targeting optical Add/Drop Multiplexing
at OC-768 and higher. Other applications might include
all-optical switches routers, and cross connects.
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The
agreement grants UFOS exclusive rights to patents covering the
inventions developed by Dr. Paul R. Prucnal of Princeton's
Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM).
Initial funding for the company is being provided by
Harmonic Research, which will also provide funding for ongoing
research at the POEM lab.
http://www.ee.princeton.edu/ooe/
http://www.harmonicresearch.com
EGENERA
RAISES $20 MILLION FOR NEW INTERNET DATA CENTER COMPUTING
Egenera, a start-up based in Bolton, Mass., raised $20 million
in first round venture funding.
The company will develop new computing systems specifically
for next generation Internet Data Centers.
Investors include Kodiak Venture Partners, Spectrum
Equity Investors, Goldman Sachs, CSFB Private Equity and YankeeTek
Ventures and others. http://www.egenera.com/
Egenera,
October 19, 2000
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Egenera
was founded in March 2000 by Vern Brownell, the former Chief
Technology Officer at Goldman Sachs, and Ken Zolot, a
developer of network security software used by many leading
investment banking firms.
NET.COM
DIVESTS IS FEDERAL SERVICES BUSINESS
net.com will sell its federal services business to CACI
International, a global information technology (IT) products and
services company, for approximately $40 million, depending on
milestones. A royalty
agreement also offers net.com the opportunity to achieve
approximately $10 million of additional revenue over five-years.
The specialized services group has about 200 employees
supporting US civilian and military government network
installations. net.com
will focus on opportunities for its next generation IP service
creation platform. http://www.net.com/company/releases/pr00/pr2400.shtml
net.com,
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