2. 3Com Exits Consumer DSL and Cable Modem Business

3COM EXITS CONSUMER DSL AND CABLE MODEM BUSINESS
3Com will discontinue its line of consumer cable and DSL modems, saying that there is an industry-wide glut that has driven down prices and margins.  However, the company will continue to offer DSL routers and modems aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.  3Com also lowered its financial outlook for the quarter ended June 1^st.  It now expects revenues will be in the range of US$450 million to $475 million. Lower sales volumes negatively affected manufacturing utilization and led to increased provisions for excess inventories.   http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/pressbox/press_release.jsp?INFO_ID=2003286
3Com, June 7, 2001

SUPERCOMM ATTENDANCE SHOWS SLIGHT INCREASE OVER 2000
This week’s SuperComm 2001 in Atlanta attracted a slightly greater number of attendees and exhibitors compared to last year, according to the event’s organizers.

* Projected attendance number. Actual number will be announced after an attendance audit is performed by Expomark.  The event is produced by the United States Telecom Association (USTA) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).
SuperComm, June 7, 2001

COMANAGE ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIPS FOR CUSTOMER-AWARE SERVICE MANAGEMENT
CoManage, a start-up developing a customer-aware service management system, announced a series of partnerships aimed at simplifying broadband service activation and delivering improved quality-of-service and enhanced customer service capabilities.  CoManage’s Customer-Aware Complete combines its own Integrated Service Manager with leading OSS, billing software and hardware vendors, including Portal Software, MetaSolv Software, Telution, Jetstream and Paradyne.  CoManage’s application provides auto-discovery, provisioning, fault management and performance monitoring of network elements and individual circuits from the core to the customer premise. Network events can be correlated with affected customers and services, enabling service providers to proactively inform customers when there are service-affecting events.  Integration of the CoManage system with Portal’s application would enable carriers to correlate billing information with customer information, automatically start or stop billing when services are activated or deactivated, and generate invoices that accurately account for service availability.  Integration with MetaSolv’s software would automate order management and service fulfillment.  A strategic partnership with Paradyne would produce an integrated, customer-aware DSL service with faster activation and the capability to support converged voice/data applications.  http://www.comanage.net
CoManage, June 6, 2001

• CoManage was founded by Dave Nelson and Andrew Fraley, both formerly with FORE Systems.    The company is based in Pittsburgh, PA.

ADC ANNOUNCES DSLAM+ATM SWITCH FOR REMOTE CABINETS
ADC announced a compact, environmentally hardened DSLAM designed to deliver services to business and residential customers served by copper-fed digital loop carriers (DLCs). The new Avidia 2200 combines DSL capabilities with an ATM switch, enabling it to deliver VoDSL, broadband VPNs, video and other services.  The 3-slot Avidia 2200 comes pre-configured with a 12- or 24-port G.dmt/G.lite ADSL subscriber card, a 12- or 24-port POTS splitter card providing filtering and line protection and a combination management/8xT1 IMA (or 8xE1 IMA) network card.  It measures 2 rack units in height and is available in a hardened version for deployment in remote cabinets as well as a non-hardened chassis.  http://www.adc.com
ADC, June 4, 2001

TELIA BUILDS IPV6 COMMERCIAL NETWORK
Telia will launch a commercial IPv6 network with connection points in Stockholm, London, Oslo, Kopenhamn, Malmo, Goteborg and Vasa in Finland.  The first phase of deployment is already underway, making Telia the first IPv6 service provider in Europe.  Initially, the network is a pure transport service with fixed access, available to a limited number of users. Telia cited the shortage of traditional IP addresses as its motivation to pursue IPv6.  Early customers are expected to include other ISP and research groups.  http://www.telia.com
Telia, June 7, 2001

NEC TO INTRODUCE 40GBPS, GIGABIT ETHERNET MULTIPLEXER FOR METRO NETS
NEC announced plans for an optical multiplexer that could aggregate up to 32 Gigabit Ethernet channels onto a metro core network running at 40 Gbps.  The system would operate by first aggregating eight channels of Gigabit Ethernet using time-division multiplexed onto a 10Gbps optical signal.  Four of the 10 Gbps signals would then be combined onto a 40 Gbps optical signal using coarse WDM.  The frame format of 10Gbps signals would be similar to that of SONET OC-192c, enabling interoperability with most transponder-based DWDM systems.  NEC said its design could accommodate point-to-point, ring and bus topologies with spans ranging from 10 km to 40 km.  NEC will begin delivery of the product September 2001 with an initial Japanese focused sales marketing plan.  http://www.nec.co.jp/english/today/newsrel/0106/0401.html
NEC, June 5, 2001

NEC AND TELLIUM ENTER MARKETING AND R&D PARTNERSHIP
NEC America Public Networks Group and Tellium announced a marketing and development agreement targeting integrated optical systems.  The alliance brings together NEC’s DWDM systems with Tellium’s core optical switching hardware and software.  Specifically, NEC and Tellium plan to develop a client interface card that integrates Tellium's Aurora Optical Switch with NEC's SpectralWave 160 DWDM transponder. The agreement also covers joint development of integrated network management functionality.  http://www.necpng.com
NEC, June 5, 2001

CORIOLIS RELEASES ITS OPTICAL SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLEXING PLATFORM
Coriolis Networks, based in Boxborough, Massachusetts, announced the commercial release of its Optical Spatial Division Multiplexing platform.  The technology manages bandwidth as a shared resource across an entire geographically distributed network and provides automatic real-time dynamic bandwidth allocation to match bandwidth resources with service requirements. Coriolis said its OptiFlow platform would enable carriers to deliver gigabit Ethernet, TDM and other data services from a single network with rapid service turn-up and end-to-end provisioning.  System prices start at under $10,000 and depend on the configuration, switching capacity, number of wavelengths and I/O modules.  http://www.coriolisnet.com
Coriolis Networks, June 7, 2001

• Coriolis' OSDM is designed to aggregate and transport both SONET and “bursty” data traffic in their native modes while recovering as much as 75% of stranded SONET bandwidth by making optimal use of the protection ring path and by partitioning bandwidth into arbitrary amounts.  The company's product set will include central trunking platforms for aggregating and grooming traffic, a flexible set of low-cost access service devices, and the OptiFlow bandwidth manager software that dynamically controls the optical bandwidth utilization across an entire network.  
  
• Coriolis Networks is led by Robert L. Castle, formerly Chairman, CEO and President of VideoServer.  Founders include Hakim F. Dhilla (formerly with Fujitsu), Ibrahim (Ibi) F. Dhilla (Digital Equipment/Cabletron, Cascade/Ascend), Surya Kumar Kovvali (Digital/Cabletron), Ramji Raghavan (Digital/Cabletron) and Bruce Thompson (NexLAN and Digital).

FUJITSU SHOWS 44-CHANNEL TUNABLE LASER SUPPORTING 40, 10, 2.5 GBPS RATES
Fujitsu demonstrated a 44-channel tunable laser configured with distributed feedback laser (DFB) array integration. Each laser cavity covers four wavelengths and includes temperature control and wavelength-locking circuitry. A built-in silicon optical amplifier enables large laser output power requirements for 40 Gbps transport, and is capable of being programmed down to lower settings for OC-192 or OC-48 using the same laser.  The 44-channel single substrate tunable laser has an optical output power of up to 20 milliwatts, combining eight separate temperature-tuned distributed feedback lasers, plus waveguides, silicon optical amplifiers and control circuitry. Fujitsu said the technology could be used to reduce the stand-by “spares” in a 176-channel DWDM system to just four transponder units, significantly cutting carrier inventory costs.  Fujitsu has already deployed more than 3,000 tunable lasers into customers' networks to date.  http://www.fnc.fujitsu.com
Fujitsu, June 7, 2001

• Earlier this week, Fujitsu Network Communications announced tunable OC-192 optics for its FLASH2400 ADX platform, a next generation SONET/SDH add/drop multiplexer.  The system currently includes a 4-channel tunable laser, with plans to move to a 22-channel tunable laser.

FUJITSU TO OFFER 40 GBPS ON ITS DWDM PLATFORM
Fujitsu announced plans to add 40 Gbps interfaces to its FLASHWAVE OADX DWDM platform.  The 40 Gbps transport will be positioned for ultra high capacity, long-haul networks.  The company is also evaluating 40 Gbps for metro applications.  Fujitsu’s 40 Gbps capabilities are attained using variable chromatic dispersion compensators, polarization mode dispersion compensators, built-in spectrum analyzers, along with 40 Gbps transmitters/receivers.
http://www.fnc.fujitsu.com
Fujitsu, June 7, 2001

• Fujitsu recently was selected to provide the terrestrial DWDM links for Nava Networks' $600 million international broadband cable network "Nava-1", which will interconnect South East Asia and Australia.

LANTERN LAUNCHES ITS 10 GBPS RESILIENT PACKET RING SWITCH
Lantern Communications, a start-up based in San Jose, California, introduced its Metro Packet Switch designed to build dual counter-rotating 10 Gbps resilient packet rings (RPRs) that can scale to several hundred kilometers and more than a hundred nodes.  Lantern’s metro optical ring technology is based on the emerging IEEE 802.17 RPR standard rather than on SONET.  The company claims that spatial reuse and statistical multiplexing on resilient packet rings enable its architecture to achieve more than 95% ring bandwidth utilization. In contrast, Lantern says the effective bandwidth utilization in SONET/SDH and Ethernet switching systems is less than 60% for packet services. Lantern’s switch will be offered in a 6-slot and a 14-slot chassis; both designed to NEBS Level 3 specifications. The systems are configurable with redundant power supplies, fan trays and 80 Gbps switch modules, and all replaceable modules are interchangeable between the two chassis.  The first release will support 80 Gbps packet switch module, 10 Gbps ring interface modules, 16-port 100BaseFX single-mode service module, 16-port 100BaseFX multi-mode service module, 16-port 100BaseTX service module, 2-port Gigabit Ethernet service module with SX optics, and a 2-port Gigabit Ethernet service module with LX optics.  Beta testing is expected to begin by October.  http://www.lanterncom.com
Lantern Communications, June 5, 2001  

• Lantern Communications was founded in early 1999 by Nasser Hiekali, a co-founder of CellAccess Technology, an ATM company acquired by FORE Systems in 1995; and Nader Vijeh, formerly a Director of Engineering and Principal Architect at FORE Systems.