ADVISORY/ Tellium's Harry Carr to Join Optical Switch Panel at NGN.Business/Technology Editors OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2000 Tellium, Inc., provider of the world's first in-service intelligent optical switches, today announced that Harry Carr, Tellium's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Chairman, will participate in a panel discussion at Next Generation Networks 2000 (NGN (Next Generation Networks) An umbrella term for mixed voice and data networks running over the IP protocol. See IP Multimedia Subsystem. 2000), a leading conference on key developments in broadband networking. The conference began on Oct. 30 and will end on Nov. 3 at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Hotel. The session, which will be held on Friday, Nov. 3, 2000, is entitled "Breakthroughs in Optical Switching for the WAN: Is It All Done with Mirrors?" The panel will assess the latest developments in optical WAN switching and examine their implications for service providers, equipment suppliers and corporate users. Who: Harry Carr, CEO and Chairman, Tellium What: Participating in panel on "Breakthroughs in Optical Switching for the WAN." Where: NGN 2000 Renaissance Washington, D.C. Hotel 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, DC When: 9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., Friday, Nov. 3, 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 forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. 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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