Advanced TelCom Group Selects Astral Point Communications for ON 5000 Optical Services Node.Business/Technology Editors CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000 ATG's Beta Test A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the of Astral (language) Astral - A programming language based on Pascal, never implemented. ["ASTRAL: A Structured and Unified Approach to Database Design and Manipulation", T. Amble et al, in Proc of the Database Architecture Conf, Venice, June 1979]. Point's ON 5000 to Result in Provisioning of Cost-effective and Scalable Voice and Data Services for Mid-Size U.S. Metropolitan Markets Astral Point Communications, a pioneer in 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. and recently named a Forbes Magazine `Young Gun,' today announced that Advanced TelCom Group, Inc. (ATG ATG antithymocyte globulin. lymphocyte immune globulin (antithymocyte globulin equine, ATG, ATG equine, LIG) Atgam Pharmacologic class: Immunoglobulin Therapeutic class: Immunosuppressant ) has signed a beta test agreement with Astral Point Communications to test the ON 5000 Optical Services Node within ATG's networks. Subject to the successful completion of the beta tests, ATG plans to sign a Master Purchase Agreement with Astral Point that could result in up to $25 million in purchases of the ON 5000 Optical Services Node. ATG is part of a new breed of telecommunications companies known as Integrated Communications Providers (ICP (1) (Internet Cache Protocol) A protocol used by one proxy server to query another for a cached Web page without having to go to the Internet to retrieve it. See CARP and proxy server. ). To further its plan of utilizing the latest state-of-the-art technology to enable business, SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and residential customers to efficiently communicate, transfer data, and use the Internet, ATG is beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the Astral Point's ON 5000 Optical Services Node. ON 5000 is a multi-service optical transmission platform that brings cost-effective scalability and provisioning ease to metropolitan access networks. "Astral Point has demonstrated a unique and compelling approach to meeting the needs of ICPs," said ATG's Curt Wheeling, senior vice president and chief technology officer. "We are looking to Astral Point to enable us to rapidly respond to our customers' exploding bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal reliably and cost-effectively. We look forward to a successful relationship with Astral Point that will ultimately benefit our business customers." "With ON 5000, Astral Point has demonstrated its ability to develop a cost-effective, DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing access product that solves the immediate problems of exploding customer bandwidth demand, provisioning complexity, and the multi-service requirements of CLECs and ICPs," said Frank Dzubeck, president of Communications Network Architects. "Astral Point's initial product offering also has benefit to ILECs and IXCs customers by eliminating lengthy planning cycles, dynamic scaling within huge networks, and robust management and restoration capabilities." ATG intends to build an easily scalable, fast-provisioning metropolitan optical transport network with the Astral Point ON 5000. This will let ATG provision its portfolio of voice and data services over digital subscriber line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ) and Integrated Access Devices (IAD (Integrated Access Device) A device that multiplexes a variety of communications technologies in the customer's premises onto a single telephone line for transmission to the carrier. It also demultiplexes the incoming streams into their respective channels. ) with unprecedented speed. "We are extremely pleased that ATG has demonstrated its confidence in Astral Point and our technology by choosing to begin a relationship with us," said Astral Point Founder and 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. Raj Shanmugaraj. "We are confident that our new ON 5000 Optical Services Node will provide ATG with a competitive advantage for rapidly and efficiently responding to exploding bandwidth requirements, while scaling to support huge networks. ON 5000 will also improve ATG's provisioning speed and greatly reduce provisioning costs." About ON 5000 Optical Services Node Based upon patented technology, Astral Point's ON 5000 Optical Services Node enables carriers to construct flexible and highly scalable mesh topology networks that include innovative protection and restoration capabilities, as well as unique remote management capabilities. ON 5000 enables carriers to eliminate lengthy planning cycles, significantly improve provisioning speed and lower provisioning costs, scale to support huge networks, and flexibly add incremental services. About Astral Point Privately held and headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Astral Point Communications is a pioneer of optical networking equipment for the carrier market. The company has developed a new generation of optical access transmission systems based on its patent-pending Optical Services Architecture(TM). These systems enable carriers to provide profitable, network-based services and efficiently aggregate traffic from low-speed networks to high-speed optical networks. Additional information can be found on the Astral Point web site at http://www.astralpoint.com. About Advanced TelCom Group, Inc. (ATG) ATG, headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA, is a rapidly growing facilities-based Integrated Communications Provider (ICP) that focuses on the under served, middle sized markets across the US. Supported by the highest quality customer service via digital networks including DSL technology, ATG offers an integrated set of telecommunications products and services including high speed Internet services, advanced data services, local exchange, domestic and international long distance, and other enhanced voice services. The result is "one-stop" shopping, which allows ATG to become "the local telephone and Internet Company" of choice to its customers. For more information, visit http://www.callatg.com. |
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