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NEW
RESILIENT PACKET RING ALLIANCE TARGETS METRO FIBER NETWORKS
Cisco
Systems, Dynarc Inc., Lantern Communications, Luminous Networks
and Nortel Networks formed an alliance to support the
standardization and market adoption of Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)
technology for metropolitan fiber networks.
Resilient Packet Ring technology, which is being
standardized by a new IEEE working group, 802.17, provides
high-speed, survivable ring networks optimized for IP and other
packet data. The RPR Alliance will support the IEEE
standardization efforts by promoting industry cooperation and
facilitating multi-vendor interoperability.
The group is open to all interested vendors and service
providers. http://www.rpralliance.org
The
RPR Alliance, January 17, 2001
LEVEL
3 AND SBC REACH AGREEMENT ON INTER-CARRIER COMPENSATION FOR ISP
TRAFFIC
Level
3 Communications and SBC Communications announced an agreement
that establishes new inter-carrier or "reciprocal
compensation" rates for local and ISP-bound traffic exchanged
by the two companies. Level
3 said the agreement is important because it creates a rate
structure wherein intercarrier compensation payments, whether for
local traffic or access charges, approximate cost.
The 13-state agreement establishes two levels of
compensation for local and ISP bound traffic exchanged by the
companies through May 2003. For in-balance traffic, the average
rate is .0032 cents per minute throughout the life of the
agreement. In-balance traffic is defined as traffic below a 3-to-1
ratio of originating to terminating traffic. For traffic that is
out of balance, or exceeds the ratio, the average rate is .0018
cents per minute of use, retroactive to Sept. 1, 2000, and
declines to an average of .00101 by June 1, 2002. http://www.level3.com/us/news/newsreleases/0,1345,20010117,00.html
Level
3, January 17, 2001
WORLDCOM
ROLLS OUT IP VPN AND MPLS-POWERED PRIVATE IP
WorldCom
announced two new services targeted at global e-businesses.
A new WorldCom IP VPN service provides secure dial and
dedicated Virtual Private Network (VPN) service in 23 countries.
A new WorldCom Private IP service unlocks new
e-applications for traditional data users through the company’s
IP-enabled global networks using MPLS technology.
Private IP is available in all countries where WorldCom
offers Frame Relay (45 countries) and ATM (22 countries).
http://www.worldcom.com/about_the_company/press_releases/display.phtml?cr/20010117
WorldCom,
January 17, 2001
MFN
TO RESELL CISCO'S DWDM EQUIPMENT FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
Metromedia
Fiber Network (MFN) agreed to resell Cisco Systems' DWDM equipment
as part of its WaveChannel Optical Network service. MFN offers
enterprise customers a fully integrated and managed,
building-to-building, dedicated fiber-optic network using their
choice of optical equipment.
The enterprise service supports advanced applications, such
as storage area networks (SAN), data mirroring, disaster recovery,
data warehousing and sophisticated high-resolution video networks,
using ESCON, HDTV, Fibre Channel, SONET and ATM.
The MFN/Cisco offering will start with the 32-channel Cisco
Metro 1500 Series platform. http://www.mmfn.com/
Metromedia Fiber Network, January 17, 2001
AXSUN
TECHNOLOGIES RAISES $111 MILLION FOR PHOTONIC SUBSYSTEMS
AXSUN
Technologies, a developer of a photonic packaging platform capable
of integrating a variety of optical devices, has raised $101
million of equity and $10 million of debt financing.
The company’s platform creates hybrid photonic products
using an integration platform that enables DWDM equipment
suppliers to create smaller, less expensive photonic subsystems
with lower power requirements.
AXSUN’s first product is a business-card-sized Optical
Channel Monitor. The
company is also offering OEM component packaging to third parties.
Investors include OppenheimerFunds, the Scudder Technology
Innovation Fund, the Dreyfus Premier NexTech Fund, Agilent
Technologies, Amerindo Investment Advisors, Analog Devices,
Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, Wit Soundview, Vantage Point Venture
Partners, Goldman Sachs, Ray Stata, Pivotal Asset Management,
Prism Venture Partners, and Bowman Capital Management.
Silicon Valley Bank provided a $10 million capital
equipment loan. AXSUN
is headquartered in Billerica, Mass., and has a second
manufacturing facility in Livermore, Calif.
http://www.axsun.com/news/home.htm
AXSUN,
January 15, 2001
- The
AXSUN Packaging Platform combines Micro-Optics lens
technology, and micro-alignment structures with a scalable,
automated assembly process to create “Agile Photonic
Subsystems.” AXSUN
says that these Agile Photonic Subsystems will produce higher
levels of performance and functional density while consuming
less materials, labor, power and space than bulk optical
solutions.
- AXSUN
was founded in 1999 by Dale C. Flanders, Ph.D., who was
previously CTO of Cabletron and a researcher at Bell Labs and
MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, and James G. Lewis and Peter S.
Whitney, Ph.D., who were also with Cabletron.
The company has raised a total of $157 million in
financing since its inception.
MOLECULAR
OPTOELECTRONICS CORPORATION SECURES $20 MILLION IN VENTURE FUNDING
Molecular
OptoElectronics Corporation (MOEC) has raised $20 million in
second round equity financing.
MOEC is developing a variety of optical components,
including fiber optic variable attenuators, safety shutters, power
control modules, and waveguide optical amplifiers.
The investment was made by Lehman Brothers Venture
Partners, Epoch Partners, and Intel Capital.
MOEC was formed in 1993.
http://www.moec.com/
MOEC, January
16, 2001
ALLEGRO
NETWORKS NAMES DAVE HOUSE CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEO
Allegro
Networks has named Dave House as Chairman, President and CEO.
Allegro is developing a new router platform targeted at
facilities-based providers, hosting operators, and ISPs.
House previously headed Intel’s Microcomputer
Group, and was CEO of Bay Networks and President of Nortel.
P.J. Singh, one of
the founders and acting-CEO of Allegro Networks will serve as the
company’s chief technology officer.
http://www.allegronetworks.com/press_pr17jan01.html
Allegro Networks, January
17, 2001
- Allegro
was founded by P.J. Singh, a
founder and VP of Engineering for Packet Engines, which was
acquired by Alcatel, and Shekar Nair, principal
software architect at Xylan, which was also acquired by
Alcatel.
- The
San Jose, Calif. based company has received $24 million in
financing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital,
and Infinity Capital.
- House
sits on the board of directors of VillaMontage Systems, Salira
Optical Networks, and mDiversity.
TIME
WARNER TELECOM FIRST TO DEPLOY LUCENT'S 160 CHANNEL CAPABLE DWDM
PLATFORM
Time Warner Telecom will be the first carrier to deploy Lucent
Technologies' latest OLS 1.6T DWDM system, which offers up to 1.6
Tbps capacity per fiber by supporting up to 160 channels of 10
Gbps traffic. Initially,
Lucent is delivering and installing the system with the capacity
of 800 Gbps. The
three-year agreement is valued at up to $100 million.
http://www.lucent.com/press/0101/010117.nsa.html
Lucent
Technologies, January 17, 2001
BT
IGNITE CONTENT HOSTING EQUIPS DATA CENTERS WITH SUN SERVERS
BT
Ignite Content Hosting selected Sun Microsystems as the sole
supplier of Unix-based servers for its new European Internet data
centers. The company
has purchased $20 million in servers thus far, and plans to expand
its commitment over the next several years.
The data centers are currently in 9 European countries
including the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy,
Switzerland, Belgium and Sweden.
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-01/sunflash.20010117.6.html
Sun MicroSystems, January 17, 2001
- BT,
AT&T and Concert have previously disclosed plans to
jointly invest approximately $2 billion over the next two
years to develop a network of 44 Internet data centers in 16
countries
ALCATEL
SPACE TO OFFER VSAT SYSTEMS FOR SATELLITE MULTICASTING
Alcatel
Space will integrate and resell VSAT products from STM Wireless
into its range of carrier grade systems and software in order to
offer satellite broadband solutions to service providers using
current satellites and the emerging Ka-band systems.
The companies said the use of satellites for multicasting
Internet content has created new demand for two-way VSAT systems
compatible with DVB standards.
http://www.alcatel.com/space/
Alcatel Space, January 17, 2001
APERTO
NETWORKS LAUNCHES FIELD TRIALS OF ITS 5GHZ POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT
FIXED WIRELESS
Aperto Networks, a start-up developing a fixed broadband
wireless access system for the unlicensed 5 GHz U-NII frequency
spectrum, announced its first alpha trial in a northern California
carrier network. Aperto's
system uses adaptive Time Division Duplexing (TDD) and provides
the flexibility to operate in a single 6 MHz channel anywhere in
the spectrum with data rates up to 20 Mbps. Aperto leverages a
dynamic TDMA protocol, with embedded QoS and prioritization
provisions, that enables the upstream and downstream bandwidth
allocation to be dynamically adjusted to accommodate changes in
traffic patterns. The
company said its current field testing involves real-world
conditions such as variable equipment configurations,
line-of-sight (LOS), obstructed line-of-sight (OLOS) and
non-line-of-sight (NLOS) locations, light-to-heavily loaded
network traffic, symmetrical voice, data and video transmissions,
and variable cell radii.
Aperto
is based in Milpitas, California.
http://www.apertonetworks.com/
Aperto
Networks, January 17, 2001
- Aperto
Networks is headed by Dr. Reza Ahy, who previously held
executive and technical senior management positions with
Harris Corporation, Varian Research Center and RadioLAN.
The company's technical team is led by Dr. Subir
Varma, who previously was
Director of Systems Architecture at Hybrid Networks, where he
was responsible for its MMDS system.
- In
October, Aperto Networks secured $26 million in second round
funding from Alliance Ventures, Tyco Ventures, Ridgewood
Capital, Satwik Ventures, DMC Stratex Networks, Oki Electric
Industry Company, Mitsubishi International Corporation and
Redwood Ventures.
TRUESAN
NETWORKS SECURES $30 MILLION FOR MASSIVELY SCALABLE, MODULAR
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
TrueSAN Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California,
secured $30 million in second round venture funding for its work
on developing scalable and flexible storage solutions.
Investors include the Woodside Fund, Merrill Lynch, QLogic
Corporation, JT Venture Partners, Credit Suisse First Boston,
Spring Creek Partners and Finisar Corporation.
http://www.truesan.com/
TrueSAN
Networks, January 17, 2001
- TrueSAN's
architecture features a distributed and parallel design
capable of delivering up to 128GB/sec of non-blocking
bandwidth, 32GB of cache, and up to 50TB of storage capacity
on a single system. TrueSAN
will use a pool of high-performance Fibre Channel disk storage
modules with embedded hardware RAID functionality
interconnected through a MetaFabric subsystem. The platform
will incorporate storage virtualization, snapshot copy, and
active resource management as standard features.
Outgoing connections will include Fibre Channel, ATM
and WDM optical.
REDBACK
REPORTS Q4 REVENUE OF $114.6 MILLION, UP 42% OVER Q3
Redback
Networks reported Q4 revenues of $114.6 million, up 42% over Q3.
Pro forma net income for the fourth quarter of 2000 was
$7.8 million or $0.05 per share diluted.
http://www.redback.com/
Redback
Networks, January 17, 2001
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