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News Topics: Main | New England | New Jersey / New York | San Francisco Bay Area | Southern California | Texas | Canada | Europe | Israel | People | Archive Start-up Company Directories: Optical | Wireless | Silicon | DSL   Innovance Networks Attracts $55 Million for its Core Optical Platform Innovance Networks, a start-up based in Piscataway, New Jersey and Ottawa, Ontario, raised over $55 million in new funding to support its vision of a next generation, agile photonic network. Innovance is developing a core optical platform to replace today's static point-to-point WDM networks with an intelligent, dynamic architecture that delivers rapid, "touch-less" provisioning. Strategic investors include JDS Uniphase and Corning. Additional investors include Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Morgenthaler, Thomas Weisel Capital Partners, Azure Capital, Banc of America Securities, Kalkhoven, Pettit & Levin Ventures and Archery Capital. http://www.innovance.com 25-Feb-02 Innovance Networks raised US$95 million in December 2000. Innovance is headed by Peter Allen, who previously was the Vice-President of Business Development and General Manager of the Optoelectronics organization within Nortel Networks' Optical Networks division. Its technical team is led by Dr. Alan Solheim, who led development of Nortel Networks' 10 Gbps line system and DWDM platform. iolon, a start-up based in San Jose, California, is supplying its widely tunable L-band external cavity laser to Innovance Networks. iolon's Apollo device is a miniature external cavity laser that tunes using micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) actuators, micro optical components, and advanced servo controls. The MEMS actuator rotates a mirror to retroreflect back into the laser cavity a particular frequency of light that is diffracted off a high-pitch grating. The device offers output power greater than 20mW and tuning over 100 channels at 50GHz spacing. Recent Start-up News Cisco to Acquire Arch Rock for Wireless Energy Sensors 9/2/2010 FiberTech Networks Sold to Investor Group for $500 Million 8/26/2010 Cisco to Acquire ExtendMedia for Video Content Management 8/26/2010 Nimbula Raises $15 Million for Cloud OS 8/25/2010 VSS Monitoring Raises $20 Million for its Distributed Taps 8/24/2010 Nokia to Acquire Motally for Mobile Analytics Service 8/20/2010 LG-Ericsson USA Launches, Integrates Accton's SMC Networks 8/16/2010 Talari Networks Secures $10 Million for WAN Virtualization 8/11/2010 MobileIron Raises $16M for Smartphone Management 8/3/2010 YouSendIt Secures $15 Million for Secure Content Delivery 8/3/2010 Wavesat Develop Tri-Band LTE Reference Design for Consumer Handsets 8/2/2010 NTT DOCOMO Acquires PacketVideo for Embedded Mobile Software 8/2/2010 IBM Acquires Storwize for Real-time Data Compression 7/29/2010 Boeing Completes Acquisition of Narus 7/29/2010 Juniper to Acquire SMobile for Mobile Security 7/27/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton       E-mail Newsletter Sign up for a FREE TRIAL of our newsletter