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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   Oclaro Acquires Mintera for 40 Gbps Transmission Oclaro has acquired Mintera Corporation, a privately-held developer of 40 Gbps optical transport sub-systems solutions. Mintera, which is based in Acton, Mass., achieved revenues of approximately $20 million for the twelve months ended June 30, 2010. Terms of the deal call for a payment of $12 million in cash upon close, plus a revenue-based earn-out ranging from $0 to $20M payable in cash or stock at Oclaro's option. Oclaro said the acquisition broadens its product portfolio for high-speed telecommunications. As a result of the acquisition, Oclaro will offer components and sub-systems covering all of the major modulation technologies necessary for high-performance 40 Gbps data transmission in regional, metro, long-haul (LH) and ultra Long-Haul (ULH) networks. Mintera offers a 40 Gbps Adaptive DPSK (Differential Phase Shift Keying) transmission module, which enables ultra long-haul transmission compatible with 50 GHz channel spacing. Oclaro already supplies DQPSK (Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) components and modules for 40 Gbps networks. Beyond 2011, Oclaro believes the 40 Gbps DPSK market will begin to migrate to Coherent technologies, enabling lower line costs and simplified deployments. Mintera's 40 Gbps PM-QPSK (Coherent) module is planned for production by the second half 2011. Mintera's 40 Gbps Coherent technology development is expected to further enhance Oclaro's competitive lead in the development of 100 Gbps components and modules. The company's said that Mintera's upcoming 40Gbps Coherent module will be the first product of its kind on the market, due to an existing partnership agreement between Mintera Corporation and ClariPhy Communications, a leading provider of high performance mixed-signal ICs and also an Oclaro strategic partner. "Oclaro's acquisition of Mintera is the latest in a series of strategic moves to increase our addressable market, better serve our customers and outdistance our competition," said Alain Couder, president and CEO, Oclaro. "Through this acquisition, Oclaro has taken another important step forward in building upon our leadership position in 40 Gbps regional and metro networks by broadening our product portfolio and systems expertise to expand into 40 Gbps LH and the 100 Gbps Coherent markets." http://www.oclaro.com http://www.mintera.com 21-Jul-10 Mintera was founded in 2001. The company has announced $81.5 million in venture funding and revolving credit since then. Mintera began demonstrating long-haul, 40 Gbps transmission in 2002. Recent Start-up News Pareto Networks Names Daniel Ryan as CEO 9/7/2010 Aricent and Frog Design Create Idea-to-Market Business Unit 9/7/2010 Cisco to Acquire Arch Rock for Wireless Energy Sensors 9/2/2010 NTT DOCOMO Works with WiSpry on RF-MEMS Technology 8/31/2010 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 NTT DOCOMO Acquires PacketVideo for Embedded Mobile Software 8/2/2010 Wavesat Develop Tri-Band LTE Reference Design for Consumer Handsets 8/2/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Improving the Backbone with Dual Redundant SIP Service by Ian Colville 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       E-mail Newsletter Sign up for a FREE TRIAL of our newsletter