Atlantic Media Uses Cerent's Optical Transport Platform to Deliver Optimized Carrier-to-Carrier Broadband Services.PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 1999-- Cost-Effective Fiber and SONET Connections Directly into Customer Premises Cerent Corporation today announced that Atlantic Media, headquartered in Laurel, Maryland Laurel is a Maryland, U.S. city located midway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Incorporated in 1870, the city maintains a historic district including its Main Street. The official population estimate for Laurel city was 21,945 as of 2006. , has deployed the evolutionary Cerent 454(TM) the first evolutionary optical transport platform, within its mid-Atlantic fiber optical network reaching from Washington, DC to Boston. Using Cerent's advanced optical technology, Atlantic Media is able to establish direct backbone connections with its CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) , ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. , IXC (1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA. (2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www. and Wireless carrier customers, bypassing incumbent local exchange carriers. Atlantic Media selected the Cerent 454 because it can be installed quickly in a quarter of the space of traditional SONET equipment, and can be rapidly configured to deliver services on demand at any optical carrier bit rate, making it easy to meet ever-changing traffic loads and 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 . These capabilities substantially reduce total cost of ownership through lower initial cost and reduced life costs. The Cerent 454's advanced features and intuitive Web-based management capabilities allow Atlantic Media to deliver high bandwidth to carrier customers through a highly reliable, rapidly scalable and easily managed optical platform. The Cerent 454's evolutionary architecture supports all prevailing traffic types including Ethernet, ATM, IP, Frame Relay and TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. over transport spans at any optical bit rate from OC-3 to OC-192. "We're constantly building inter-city and intra-city capacity, so it's a big value play being able to bring fiber directly into our carrier customer's sites," said Mark Ricigliano, Atlantic Media's president 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. . "With Cerent, we can easily connect them directly to our SONET network without even touching an ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) A traditional local telephone company such as one of the Regional Bell companies (RBOCs). Contrast with CLEC. See ELEC and TELRIC. . "The Cerent 454 gives us `A to Z' network provisioning, enabling us to instantly provision circuits for our customers on demand using a simple Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , and we get incredible performance at four times the rack density of traditional equipment. Cerent equipment dramatically simplifies network expansion." "Atlantic Media showcases how Cerent technology can be `surgically' deployed to support CLEC, ISP, IXC and wireless carriers in densely populated and highly-competitive eastern U.S. markets," said Terry Brown, vice president of field operations for Cerent. "Their strategy of bringing fiber and SONET directly into the customer premises using the most cost-effective solution available today is a textbook example of the new competitive service provider strategy." About Atlantic Media Atlantic Media provides facilities-based access solutions for Service Providers located within the Mid-Atlantic region. The company's focus is on providing Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , Public Carriers and Wireless Operators with a full range of local, interexchange (IXC) and optical (OC-x) access solutions customized to meet their individual needs. About Cerent Cerent Corporation is the revolutionary network element delivering next-generation transport network solutions today. The Cerent 454 is the first evolutionary optical transport platform that supports any network traffic type on demand over any optical bit rate at a dramatically lower cost than traditional SONET solutions. Cerent products widen the transport bottleneck and evolve to the optical networks of the Internet era. Information about Cerent can be found at: http://www.cerent.com. Note to Editors: Cerent and Cerent 454 are trademarks of Cerent Corporation. |
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