Bell Atlantic Selects ADVA-INRANGE DWDM Platform for Metro Service Offering; Telco Win Affirms The Company's Growth and Strategy to Enable Carrier Services Applications.Business & Technology Editors RAMSEY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000 ADVA ADVA American Deaf Volleyball Association ADVA Advanced Soviet Optical Networking (German Neuer Markt: ADV ADV Advertisement ADV Adverb ADV Advance/Advanced ADV Advantage (tennis) ADV Advise ADV Advocate ADV Advancement ADV Advent ADV Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung ADV Adversus (Latin: Against) ), a global provider of Wavelength Division Multiplexing See WDM. (communications) wavelength division multiplexing - (WDM) Multiplexing several Optical Carrier n signals on a single optical fibre by using different wavelengths (colours) of laser light to carry different signals. (WDM) products, announced today that Bell Atlantic has selected ADVA's optical networking system to offer high-speed data services to metro customers. ADVA's business partner, INRANGE Technologies, has been awarded a three-year contract with Bell Atlantic to supply and support ADVA's Fiber Service Platform-II (FSP-II). Bell Atlantic will offer managed fiber services based on the FSP-II. Applications supported will include Storage Area Networking (SAN), transparent LAN networking over Metropolitan areas and Synchronous Optical Network (networking) Synchronous Optical NETwork - (SONET) A broadband networking standard based on point-to-point optical fibre networks. SONET will provide a high-bandwidth "pipe" to support ATM-based services. (SONET) transport. ADVA's Metro Dense WDM (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 ) solution equips Bell Atlantic with an alternative to providing dark fiber to commercial customers for connecting data centers. Bell Atlantic can now provision a multitude of services from one protocol-transparent optical platform while maintaining control of and optimizing its fiber infrastructure. End-users gain a transparent and virtual private network connection between facilities that are managed by the carrier. The service offerings can support virtually any high-speed voice, video or data application, including: disaster recovery, data archiving and mirroring, clustering of high-speed computers for parallel processing, and Gigabit Ethernet. The ease of provisioning and sparing of the FSP-II will assist Bell Atlantic in rapidly meeting the needs of its customers as services are ordered. "We're on the brink of a new era of enterprise service offerings," said Lawrence Gasman gasman Noun pl -men a man employed to read household gas meters and install or repair gas fittings, etc. Noun 1. , president of Communications Industry Researchers Inc., a leading market research firm serving the optical networking business. "Bell Atlantic is one of the first bell companies to take advantage of DWDM technology to offer a true transparent wavelength service. Others will likely follow suit and fuel the enterprise services market's growth." "The demand for SAN and LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. interconnection services between large enterprises such as financial institutions is substantial. Bell Atlantic's transparent wavelength service provides a complete outsourced solution for customers wanting to leverage their strengths with those of a recognized leader in telecommunications. The fact that this service can be provisioned with little lead time and at a cost that is competitive with T3 service is very compelling to Bell Atlantic's customers," said Mark DiMaria, ADVA's vice president of marketing. The FSP-II supports many of the most popular protocols including Asynchronous Transfer Mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM), Enterprise System Connectivity (ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. ), Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Fiber Connection (FICON (FIber CONnector) An IBM mainframe channel introduced with its G5 servers in 1998. Based on the Fibre Channel standard, it boosts the transfer rate of ESCON's half-duplex 17MB/sec to a full-duplex 100MB/sec. ), Coupling Link, Sysplex, SONET, E3/T3, and OC3/12/48, as well as most proprietary digital protocols. About ADVA Optical Networking ADVA Optical Networking designs, develops and delivers cost-effective optical networking solutions. ADVA's products are implemented in both private and public networks, including Data Centers, SANs, LANs and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) for fiber-based data services to the enterprise. ADVA's flagship Fiber Service Platform products offer carriers the highest-performance, most cost-effective optical networking solution available today for enterprise connectivity, including WDM and DWDM technology. Publicly traded on the German Neuer Markt stock exchange since March 29, 1999, ADVA AG (Neuer Markt: ADV) was founded in Munich, Germany in 1994 as a provider of fiber-optic systems and sub-systems. ADVA distributes its products and services via a global network of strategic business partners. ADVA is headquartered in Munich, Germany, with a production and R&D facility in Meiningen and sales offices in Bristol in the United Kingdom; Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan, and Ramsey, New Jersey Ramsey is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 14,351. Ramsey was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1908, from portions of Hohokus Township (now , in the United States. The company currently has an installed base of more than 200 service providers and private enterprise customers. Visit www.advaoptical.com for more information about ADVA Optical Networking. ADVA and the ADVA logo are trademarks of ADVA Optical Networking. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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