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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   Salira Introduces its Ethernet PON for Business Salira Optical Network Systems, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, introduced its Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) platform for Fiber-to-the-Business (FTTB) applications. The system features support for IP-centric broadband services as well as native-mode TDM services that are delivered over dedicated bandwidth. The ASIC driven platform allocates upstream and downstream bandwidth across the PON based on pre-defined class of service parameters at the port level, thereby enabling uniquely-defined SLAs for individual customers. TDM traffic is delivered transparently without any protocol encapsulation, conversion or translation. Salira's product portfolio will include the Salira 2500, a high port density optical line terminal, and the Salira 2300, a multi-customer, optical network unit (ONU). Each 2500 supports up to 14 optical line cards or PON circuits. Each optical line card can support 16 Salira 2300s that be located at up to 20 kilometers from the central office on the same PON. The Salira 2300 is configured with eight fixed 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet ports and two bays for modular plug-ins. One plug-in is configured with eight 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet ports, and another contains four T1/E1 ports. The Salira 2300 could be used to support multiple customers from the same PON termination. Salira's platform is currently being tested by US Signal, a CLEC based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Commercial availability is expected in Q3. http://www.salira.com/news/news05292002.htm 29-May-02 Salira's management team includes Dave House (chairman); Herbert Martin (CEO); and Wei Gao (CTO), who is credited with being one of the developers of Nortel Networks' first OC-192/SONET products. The company's technical team also includes Dr. Jian Song, formerly with Nortel's Bell Northern Research unit, and Rick Li, formerly a key architect of Cisco's MGX8850 ATM platform. 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