• Cisco currently claims 600 customers and 25,000 systems deployed for its ONS 15454.

CISCO ENHANCES ITS IP CORE AND EDGE ROUTERS
Cisco Systems announced enhancements and new configuration in three of its backbone router categories.  A new six-slot Cisco 12406 Internet Router supports 10 Gbps OC-192/STM-64 line cards and offers 120Gbps throughput in a quarter rack space.  A new five-slot Cisco 10005 router delivers the same set of IP services in a smaller form factor.  A new Cisco 7400 router functions as a broadband subscriber aggregation solution and is capable of handling up to 8,000 subscribers in a one-inch box or up to 320,000 subscribers in a rack.  Finally, new WAN edge capabilities for the Cisco 7600 Internet Router include two high-speed channelized optical service modules (OSMs) available in OC-12 and OC-48 options.  http://www.cisco.com
Cisco Systems, June 5, 2001 

CORVIS INTRODUCES ITS MULTIBAND ELECTRONIC/PHOTONIC SWITCH
Corvis introduced a multiband switch that incorporates both an electronic fabric for STS-1 grooming and aggregation and a photonic switch fabric for wavelength switching.  The Corvis CorWave OCS platform is designed to integrate existing voice based access, metro, regional and national networks with all-optical express backbones.  The product could serve as an edge switch to groom and aggregate STS-1 traffic and could transparently switch “express layer” wavelengths that do not require grooming or termination.  The electronic fabric will scale from 240 Gbps in a single shelf up to 11.5 Tbps.  The photonic fabric can support up to 4,000 bi-directional, all-optical ports.  Flexible configurations of electronic and photonic fabrics are possible.  The CorWave OCS is the first product resulting from Corvis’ acquisition of Baylight Networks, which was completed in June 2000.  Corvis expects to release the product early next year.  http://www.corvis.com
Corvis, June 5, 2001

OPTIMIGHT DEBUTS FULL SPECTRUM DWDM WITH STANDARD EDFAS
Optimight, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced product details on its Full-Spectrum OMC 1600 DWDM transmission system, which optimizes spectral efficiency thereby delivering improved optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) and allowing the signal to travel very long distances without the need for electronic regeneration.  Optimight’s transmission platform will use standard EDFAs (Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers) rather than more costly Raman amplifiers.  Optimight’s FSWDM technology is incorporated into the transmitter opto-electronics to provide the correctly modulated signals.  The OMC 1600 Product Suite includes the Transponder (i.e. Transmitter and Receiver modules), Optical Amplifier, Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM) and the OptiWare Element Management System (EMS).  The platform is capable of transmitting and receiving up to 160 channels of OC192 signals per fiber strand in the C and L bands.  Eighty of these channels propagate in one direction, and another 80 channels propagate in the opposite direction within each fiber. This bi-directional format of optical transport is accomplished by interleaving the counter-propagating optical signals.  In this manner, 50GHz spacing is effectively achieved in this format while relying only on 100GHz components and technology.  http://www.optimight.com
Optimight, June 5, 2001

SYCAMORE DELIVERS 1024 X 1024 GROOMING SWITCH FABRIC FOR ITS OPTICAL SWITCH
Sycamore Networks announced the availability of its large grooming version of the SN 16000 intelligent optical switch, which is designed to dynamically route and re-route traffic.  The optical switch now features scalability to a 1024 x 1024 OC- 48/STM-16 ports with full grooming capabilities down to the STS-1/AU-3 level through OC-192/STM-64 and allows for automatic recognition and switching for all standard SONET/SDH concatenation rates. The automation is enabled with the introduction of dynamic channelization a new soft-optic feature that allows service providers to increase network and operator efficiency by automating end-to-end service provisioning.  Initially, Sycamore is shipping a 512 x 512 OC-48/STM-16 or 128 x 128 OC- 192/STM-64 configurations for customers such as the BellSouthMIX network.  The product also features a dual control plane (in-band and out-of-band) that protects critical configuration and management information, ensuring it remains intact if a circuit fails.  http://www.sycamorenet.com
Sycamore Networks, June 5, 2001 

CIENA TO SCALE ITS OPTICAL SWITCH TO 3,072+ PORTS
CIENA announced in-service expansion capabilities that will allow its OO and OEO CoreDirector optical switch to scale to multi-bay configurations with up to 3,072 OC-48/STM-16 equivalent optical ports per switch.  In service upgrades would continue to support all applications for SONET/SDH, DCS, multi-wavelength rings, dynamic mesh and intelligent optical networking.  Efforts to scale beyond 7.68 Tbps are underway.  CIENA said timeframes would be driven by customer need.
http://www.ciena.com/
CIENA, June 5, 2001

CISCO ROLLS OUT G.SHDSL LINE CARDS AND CPE
Cisco Systems is extending G.SHDSL (single-pair high-bit-rate DSL) capabilities to its portfolio of customer premise equipment (CPE) routers.  It also offers G.SHDSL line cards for the Cisco 6000 IP DSLAM.  The G.SHDSL solution delivers rate-adaptive symmetrical data rates from 192 Kbps up to 2.3 Mbps on a single wire pair, while spanning a greater distance than ADSL and proprietary SDSL connections.  http://www.cisco.com
Cisco Systems, June 5, 2001  

PANASONIC AND JETSTREAM DEVELOP VODSL BROADBAND PHONE
Panasonic and Jetstream Communications announced a consumer-oriented “broadband phone” that combines a Panasonic multi-line cordless phone system with an integrated ADSL modem and full data router capability.  The gateway unit would provide simultaneous access using VoDSL for up to 4 phone lines with standard telephone features, including Caller-ID and Call-waiting ID.  The unit would interoperate with Jetstream’s CPX-1000 broadband voice services platform for offloading calls from the DSL network to the PSTN.  http://www.jetstream.com
Jetstream, June 4, 2001

VINA TEAMS WITH NEC ELUMINANT FOR PON VOICE/DATA SOLUTION, TESTS INTEROPERABILITY WITH LUMINOUS
NEC Eluminant Technologies will bundle its passive optical network (PON) access solution with VINA Technologies’ multiservice broadband access solution, providing a customer premise platform integrating voice and data.  The platform allows service providers to reach more small and medium businesses by migrating from TDM to ATM and IP access technologies.  Separately, VINA and Luminous Networks announced the successful interoperability test of VINA-originated TDM voice traffic carried over Luminous’ metro optical Gigabit Ethernet switches.  VINA’s Integrator 300 access device integrates voice and data traffic of multiple businesses and aggregates it over a single T1 line to the Luminous PacketWave switch.  http://www.vina-tech.com/ 
VINA Technologies, June 5, 2001 

OPTIUM RAISES $35.5 MILLION FOR ITS OPTICAL DEVICE AND PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY
Optium, a start-up based in Orlando, Florida, secured $35.5 million in second round equity financing.  Optium has developed proprietary optical device and packaging technology based on research conducted at the University of Central Florida’s School for Optics (CREOL) by professors Dr. Guifang Li and Dr. Patrick LiKamWa.  Investors include Kalkhoven Pettit Levin Ventures, Battery Ventures, Corning Innovation Ventures, Texas Pacific Group, Lee Munder Venture Partners and Dominion Ventures.  The company has raised $50 million to date.  http://www.optiumcorp.com
Optium, June 4, 2001

• Optium is headed by Paul Suchoski, formerly a co-founder and Vice President / General Manager of JDS Uniphase’s EPD Division in Bloomfield, CT and Eitan Gertel, formerly founder and Vice President / General Manager of JDS Uniphase’s TSD Division in Horsham, PA.  

NOKIA TO SUPPORT JAVA IN 50 MILLION MOBILE PHONES IN 2002
Nokia plans to deliver more than 50 million mobile terminals supporting Java for all segments of the consumer market by the end of 2002 and double that number by the end of 2003.  The company is working with Borland on software development kits for third-party Java applications.  Nokia also introduced its first color screen phone based on the Symbian operating system (OS) and PersonalJava for North America.  Separately, Nokia announced that AT&T Wireless is testing its Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology as a foundation for 3G multimedia services. The project includes testing UMTS and the protocols that will enable voice, data and video services to run on an IP-based network.  http://press.nokia.com/PR/200106/823626_5.html 
Nokia, June 5, 2001

ASTRACON ENHANCES ITS SERVICE ACTIVATION OSS
Astracon, a start-up based in Denver, Colorado, released a new version of its Connection Manager OSS that adds performance, scalability and service-centric monitoring enhancements to its core activation technology.  The company claims its new OSS will provide the scalability required for multi-million connection DSL deployments and the robustness to activate 10,000 services orders per day.  Astracon is positioning the software to serve three main applications:  service activation for consumers; wholesale service activation for multi-vendor, multi-technology core networks including ATM, frame relay, SONET/SDH, PDH, or DWDM; and service activation required by large enterprises, including dedicated ATM, Frame Relay and SONET.  http://www.astracon.com
Astracon, June 4, 2001

LUCENT AND FOUNDRY ANNOUNCE OPTICAL ETHERNET PARTNERSHIP 
Lucent Technologies announced a marketing partnership combining its Metropolis portfolio of next-generation metro products and Foundry's end-to-end IP switching and routing products.  The companies will cooperate on interoperability testing, co-marketing and co-selling initiatives and will coordinate trials with carriers and service providers.  http://www.foundrynetworks.com
Lucent Technologies, June 5, 2001 

TYCOM COMPLETES TRANSATLANTIC NETWORK AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
The transatlantic segment of the TyCom Global Network entered its final testing phase and is now carrying multiple 10 Gbps wavelengths of traffic.  TyCom will start carrying commercial traffic over the New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam route by the end of the month.  TyCom Transatlantic is a 4-fiber pair ring system capable of carrying 64 fully protected 10 Gbps wavelengths, for a designed traffic-carrying capacity of 2.56 terabits.  http://www.tycomltd.com 
Tycom, June 4, 2001

• TyCom is also developing extensive colocation centers in all of the main cities it serves.  

BOEING TESTS LMG’S ACOUSTO-OPTIC SWITCHES
Boeing will begin testing Light Management Group’s (LMG’s) unique acousto-optic switches for possible use in its products.  LMG claims its acousto-optic switch operates at a speed of less than 5 microseconds, representing a 1,000-fold advantage over today’s Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology.  The design uses sound waves to change the paths of light waves through a switch.  http://www.lightmanagementgroup.com/  
LMG, June 4, 2001

WORLD WIDE PACKETS NAMES DAVID CURRY AS PRESIDENT
World Wide Packets, a start-up developing Gigabit Ethernet broadband access systems, named David Curry as its new President and Chief Operating Officer.  Company founder Bernard Daines remains CEO and adds the title of CTO.  Curry is a cofounder of Architel Systems, a Canadian developer of telecom OSS products that was sold to Nortel Networks in July 2000 in a deal valued at approximately $400 million.  http://www.worldwidepackets.com
WWP, June 4, 2001

LUCENT SEES MODEST SEQUENTIAL SALES GROWTH
Lucent Technologies reaffirmed the company's financial guidance and said it is seeing “modest sequential growth” over last quarter’s $5.915 billion in revenue.  http://www.lucent.com/press/0601/010605.coa.html
Lucent Technologies, June 5, 2001