Atrica and FlexLight Networks Partner to Provide Carriers Complete Metro and Last Mile Ethernet Solution.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2002 Booth #10609 (Atrica) and #24036 (FlexLight) ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2002 Atrica Inc., a leading provider of Optical Ethernet equipment for the $15 billion Metro networking market, today announced that it has teamed with FlexLight Networks, a new company delivering the industry's first Gigabit Passive 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. (GPON See PON. ) solution for the last mile. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will participate in joint reference-selling of their products, and have already successfully completed the initial tests to ensure interoperability between Atrica's Optical Ethernet System and FlexLight's GPON solution. "The development of last mile access technology is something we've watched with great interest over the past few years," said Michael Fox Michael Fox may refer to:
"Carriers are searching for low-cost, high-performance solutions to solve the crucial last mile bottleneck and optimize service flexibility," said Gary Lee, vice president of marketing at FlexLight. "Our GPON solution delivers the benefits of greater bandwidth per customer, integrated voice and data solutions on a single fiber, longer reach per CO (Central Office) served and a greatly reduced payback period Payback Period The length of time required to recover the cost of an investment. Calculated as: . When used in conjunction with Atrica's Optical Ethernet System, carriers can realize the promise of Metro Ethernet A metropolitan area network (MAN) that uses a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) backbone rather than SONET/SDH links. Ethernet offers a more economical alternative. In a Metro Ethernet network, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) may be deployed to provide quality of service (QoS). technology -- simplicity, ubiquity and above all, dramatic cost savings -- to deliver Ethernet data as well as 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. voice solutions to customers located many miles from the metro ring." Atrica's Optical Ethernet System combines standard 10Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. with optical switching and traffic engineering and management capabilities to give carriers up to ten times better price/performance as compared to other Metro networking solutions including SONET and next-generation SONET. Comprised of the A-2100 Optical Ethernet Edge Switch, the A-8000 Series Optical Ethernet Core Switches and Atrica's Service Platform for Ethernet Networks (ASPEN), Atrica's Optical Ethernet System delivers the key carrier-class capabilities necessary to enable deployment of Ethernet in the Metro including sub-50 millisecond One thousandth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond. (unit) millisecond - (ms) One thousandth of a second, one thousand microseconds. A long time for a modern computer. resiliency, guaranteed SLAs, TDM support and comprehensive service management. FlexLight's state of the art optical access platform serves as the backbone of the Access Layer. The company's Optimate solution enables transport of various existing, as well as emerging, protocols over complex topologies -- while at the same time providing one of the most cost effective solutions to the service provider. The company's solution provides 2.5Gbps per optical wavelength across a PON (Passive Optical Network) An optical point-to-multipoint access network. There are no optical repeaters or other active devices in a PON, hence the name "passive. network using CWDM (Course WDM) An optical transmission method that is used for shorter distances than dense WDM (DWDM). Also known as "wide WDM," CWDM transmits fewer channels and uses wider spacing between the channels for distances up to 60 km. Wider spacing up to 25 nm, compared to 1. . The Optimate family provides Fast and Gigabit Ethernet services for data as well as T1 / OC3 services for TDM traffic, and efficiently carries that traffic through the access network in their native formats with Quality of Service/Class of Service guarantees. The end-result is a cost-effective, highly-efficient network to provision services to and from the metro ring. About FlexLight Founded in September 2000 by a dynamic team of high-powered and experienced optical network specialists and telecommunications executives, FlexLight Networks' suite of Gigabit PON optical access products leverages leading-edge technology to deliver a solution that conquers last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizes service flexibility. FlexLight's seed funding Seed funding is investing capital to begin a new project, so that it has enough funds to sustain itself for a period of development until it reaches either a state where it is able to continue funding itself, or has created something in value so that it is worthy of future rounds of $9 million comes from America's Coral Ventures, a private venture capital firm that manages more than $300 million of capital in five funds, and from Israel's Concord Venture Capital Fund. The company has offices in Atlanta, Ga. and Kfar Saba, Israel. For more information please consult www.flexlight-networks.com. About Atrica Atrica's mission is to deliver the most cost-effective, high-performance Optical Ethernet platforms to forward-thinking service providers who are building next-generation Metro networks today. Atrica is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. , with R&D facilities in Israel and business development and sales offices throughout Europe and Asia Pacific. The company has received a total of $117 million in funding to date, including seed funding from 3Com Corporation, first round financing from prominent Silicon Valley venture funds Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital, second round financing from five leading global service providers and a third round led by St. Paul Venture Capital. For more information, visit Atrica on the Web at www.atrica.com. |
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