• Cogent has a 20-year agreement with Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) valued at more than $100 million for dark fiber in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco/San Jose, and Los Angeles.  Last year, Cogent awarded a $280 million supply contract to Cisco Systems.

BROADWING TRIALS COAST-TO-COAST GIGABIT ETHERNET SERVICE
Broadwing began the industry's first coast-to-coast, Optical Gigabit Ethernet service trial.  The service is available for customers located in Broadwing's New York City and Santa Clara Hosting Centers.  Following the beta testing with several Fortune 1000 companies, Broadwing plans to offer optical Gigabit Ethernet between customer's local area networks, on a nationwide basis.  The service would be available with burstable bandwidth scalable from one megabit to one Gbps.  http://www.broadwing.com
Broadwing, May 8, 2001   

QWEST TO LAUNCH DEDICATED INTERNET ACCESS GIGABIT ETHERNET SERVICES
Qwest Communications announced Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) over Ethernet with speeds from 2 Mbps up to 1 Gbps within key US cities.  The service will be introduced first in Chicago, Washington D.C., Dallas, Los Angeles, New Jersey, New York, and San Jose, with additional market introductions slated for the second half of 2001.  Pricing was not disclosed.  http://www.qwest.com/about/media/pressroom/1,1720,637_archive,00.html
Qwest, May 8, 2001

TELSEON OFFERS CUSTOMERS WEB-BASED INSTANT BANDWIDTH PROVISIONING TOOL
Telseon introduced a Web-based IP provisioning application that lets customers establish virtual or “logical wire” connections to any other company on the Telseon network.  Key features of the system include the ability to self-provision logical wire connections in 3 to 5 minutes, the ability to change bandwidth profiles in less than 2 minutes, and the ability to allocate bandwidth on primary and redundant paths to ensure low packet latency and loss.  Telseon is also providing a user-defined, B2B “offer process” for customers that wish to establish company-to-company links with other users of the Telseon network.  http://www.telseon.com
Telseon, May 8, 2001

• Last week, Telseon launched a Metro Wave Service offering high-capacity protocol independent connectivity for other carriers and ISPs.  The service provides 2.5 Gbps or 10 Gbps connectivity between two network locations within a given metropolitan market.  Telseon said carriers and service providers could use the service to enhance their existing SONET investments, to augment existing infrastructure with additional bandwidth and to bypass ILEC connections between network locations within a metro region.  Telseon is also promising service availability in days or weeks, not months or years.  The service will be rolled out in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and the Washington DC area starting next month.  In addition, Telseon has entered a long-term network service agreement with Dynergy, which will use the Telseon footprint to expand its ability to service its customers in 18 metropolitan markets and 85 network locations.  Financial terms were not disclosed. 
• In February, Telseon secured $100 million in new equity investments to fund the rollout of its metropolitan Ethernet service.  In addition, the company has arranged for $75 million in capital lease financing, bringing its total funding to date to $261 million in capital.  

SPIRENT SHIPS LAN AND WAN 10 GIGE TESTING SOLUTIONS
Spirent Communications began shipping both LAN and WAN test solutions for 10 Gigabit Ethernet.  Both products operate at full wire rate.  The 10 GigE WAN implementation provides SONET-like transport based on the IEEE 802.3ae draft specification.  The 10 GbE LAN adheres to the latest draft of the standard and supports the serial interfaces currently being implemented by most equipment vendors. The interfaces are 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-LW, 10GBASE-ER, and 10GBASE-EW. Two additional proposed interfaces (1310nm DWDM and 850 nm serial) are under IEEE consideration and in development by component vendors.  http://www.spirentcom.com
Spirent Communications, May 8, 2001

EXTREME NETWORKS EXTENDS ETHERNET TO PACKET-OVER-SONET INFRASTRUCTURE
Extreme Networks announced a Packet over SONET/SDH (PoS) optical services module, initially available for OC-3 and OC-12 interfaces, thereby extending Ethernet long range connectivity over traditional network infrastructures based on SONET/SDH.  Extreme Networks' PoS module is designed to enable scalable bandwidth services with increases in 1 Mbps increments over both fiber and copper media.  Rate-limiting functionality is mapped between Ethernet and SONET.  Additional features of the PoS module include wire-speed 'netflow' for accurate accounting and billing information and policy-based traffic classification with IETF DiffServ.  Integration with Extreme's MPLS solution would allow SONET-based services to be transparently delivered over MPLS networks.   http://www.extremenetworks.com
Extreme Networks, May 8, 2001

TYCOM SELECTS CIENA'S COREDIRECTOR FOR GLOBAL NETWORK
TyCom selected Ciena’s CoreDirector and MultiWave CoreStream optical switching and transport systems for its new global network.  The Ciena equipment would be used as an intelligent platform for automated service provisioning, dynamic protection and restoration on integrated long-haul and ultra long-haul routes reaching all six inhabited continents.  Phase one plans call for deployment in the Transatlantic and Northern Europe systems of the TyCom Global Network.  Initial orders were valued at more than $150 million.  http://www.ciena.com
Ciena, May 8, 2001

• Tyco International acquired AT&T's Submarine Systems division in 1997.  The company operates a fleet of ships for laying communication cables for international telecom carriers.  In January, Tyco announced its intention to build and operate its own undersea global fiber network.  Phase 1 of the TyCom Global Network will offer multi-terabit capacity up to 7.68 Tbps over an integrated system spanning 70,000 undersea kilometers and connecting more than 35 cities.
• Last month, TyCom and FLAG Telecom agreed to join their previously announced transpacific network projects in a shared development arrangement that will result in a single, undersea cable system.  Under the deal, TyCom will receive contracts to build the complete transpacific ring, part of which will become the FLAG Pacific-1 network, for US$1.7 billion, which includes all undersea cable, electronics and cable stations.  TyCom will purchase from FLAG Telecom four fiber pairs on that ring to create the TyCom Transpacific portion of the TyCom Global Network (TGN).  The 7.68 Tbps undersea cable will be approximately 24,100 km long and will connect Japan to the West Coast of the United States, then return to Asia via Hawaii and Guam.

AMCC ANNOUNCES COMBINED 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET AND OC-192C CHIPSET
Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) released a universal 10 Gbps WAN or LAN PHY solution supporting simultaneous 10 Gigabit Ethernet and OC-192c Packet Over SONET (PoS) capabilities.  AMCC’s single-chip “Khatanga” solution integrates a 10Gbps Media Access Control (MAC) block, a Physical Coding Sub-layer (PCS) and a WAN Interface Sub-layer (WIS). Alternatively, Khatanga can operate as an OC-192c framer, capable of mapping either IP packets or 10 Gigabit Ethernet payloads over SONET/SDH.  In this mode, a second fully featured SONET/SDH line interface is available for network protection purposes that can be connected either to a second OC-192 optical module or to a remote Khatanga device.  The chip is designed for 10Gbps optical line cards in optical switches and routers.  The device will be sampling to development partners in June, with volume production scheduled for 4Q 2001.  http://www.amcc.com
AMCC, May 8, 2001

ZETTACOM RELEASES ITS OC-192 TRAFFIC MANAGER AND TERABIT SWITCH FABRIC
ZettaCom, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced commercial availability of its terabit class hybrid switching fabric and its OC-192 traffic manager.  ZettaCom’s ZEST-200 hybrid switching fabric implements an architecture that can scale up to over 1 Tbps of non-blocking switching capacity allowing for flexible implementation of high-density single-shelf to terabit multi-shelf switching systems and offering a migration path to OC-768.  ZettaCom's ZEN-QM200 provides predictable traffic management capabilities and highly granular QoS differentiation at full-duplex OC-192 wire speed.  http://www.zettacom.com
ZettaCom, May 8, 2001