BrightLink Networks Begins Carrier Trials for Its Optical Switching Systems; Infrastructure Provider Signs Lab Trial Agreements With Inter-exchange Carriers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001 BrightLink Networks Inc., a privately held 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. company, is starting lab trials of its BOSS 1000 optical switch. The introduction of this switch improves carrier networks by eliminating costly, legacy equipment, and reduces the cost of provisioning lease line services. BrightLink built this switch to give Inter-Exchange carriers the on-demand ability to provision and protect services when and where they are needed, smoothly scaling bandwidth to meet demand. The BOSS 1000 is shipping to two prominent carrier labs in May for customer trials. "BrightLink's technology has produced a system that exactly meets the needs of carriers today," said Harry Quackenboss, BrightLink's chairman and chief executive officer. "With the BOSS 1000, carriers get immediate reduction in the cost of capital equipment and lease line provisioning. Our unique switch fabric architecture allows the system to grow in a `no fork lift' fashion as network capacity grows." About the Switch Architecture Carriers need switches that both groom circuits to support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services over high speed optical backbones, and to manage bandwidth growth created by dense wave division multiplexing (spelling) wave division multiplexing - A common misnomer for wavelength division multiplexing. . Based on the company's patent-pending distributed mesh switch fabric, the BOSS 1000 supports grooming and switching at the STS-1 level, and isn't limited by Moore's Law "The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months." By Intel co-founder Gordon Moore regarding the pace of semiconductor technology. He made this famous comment in 1965 when there were approximately 60 devices on a chip. in its ability to scale. Unlike traditional switches, the BOSS 1000 does not require up-front purchase of a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. switch matrix that needs replacing as port count grows. With the BOSS 1000, switch capacity is added as line cards are added. Both the cost and the capacity of the switch scale in a smooth fashion, moving between 16 to 1024 ports of OC-48 without fork-lift upgrades. About BrightLink Networks Inc. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., BrightLink is a pioneer in providing on-demand optical switching technology to the long-haul carrier market. The company began operation in 1998 and has more than 150 employees with offices in California, Pennsylvania California is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River. The population was 5,274 at the 2000 census. It includes the campus of California University of Pennsylvania. and Texas. BrightLink is privately funded and has secured more than $78 million in three rounds of funding, including investment from Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. , Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. , Menlo Ventures and the Sprout Group. For more information, visit BrightLink Networks on the Web at www.brightlink.com. |
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