ADVISORY/ Tellium's Dick Barcus to Deliver Keynote Address at OptiComm.Business/Technology Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Oct. 24) OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 Tellium, Inc., provider of the world's first in-service intelligent optical switches, today announced that Richard Barcus, Tellium's president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , will speak at OptiComm 2000, a leading conference which will cover all aspects of optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. , including research, development, implementation and customer issues. The conference will be held Oct. 24, to Oct. 26 at the Harvey Hotel, Plano, Texas Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. According to the 2000 U.S. . Barcus will review the challenges carriers face as they attempt to build or re-build their infrastructure in support of the data traffic explosion. He will also review product requirements and discuss how optical networking solutions are available today to address not only current but future needs as well.
Who: Richard Barcus, President and Chief Operating Officer of
Tellium
What: Speaking on "The Pathway to the All-Optical Network"
Where: OptiComm 2000
Harvey Hotel of Plano
1600 N. Central Expressway, Plano, Texas
When: 8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Oct. 24, 2000
About Tellium Tellium, developer of the world's first in-service, intelligent optical switches, delivers high capacity, high density, cost-effective solutions to service providers offering advanced optical services. Using Tellium's Aurora Full-Spectrum(TM) product line, service providers can tame the dramatic growth in network traffic to quickly and reliably deliver services in anticipation of their customers' dynamic bandwidth needs. Founded in 1997 by optical experts from Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bell Communications Research, Inc. or Bellcore, is a telecommunications research and development (R&D) company based in the United States and created on January 1 1984 as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment that broke up ), Tellium is led by a team of industry veterans from top telecommunications and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. companies worldwide, including Ascend Communications, AT&T, Bay Networks, Cascade, Cisco, Lucent Technologies, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Telcordia and Yurie, among others. More information is available at www.tellium.com. Tellium...smarter, faster optical networks. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. |
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