BrightLink Networks Opens New Office in Texas' Telecom Corridor; Optical Technology Start-Up Plans for Rapid Expansion in Lone Star State.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000 BrightLink Networks, Inc., a start-up venture that designs, develops and markets scalable optical transport switching systems Switching systems (communications) The assemblies of switching and control devices provided so that any station in a communications system may be connected as desired with any other station. , today announced it has opened a new office in Richardson, Texas' Telecom Corridor to conduct software development, software product testing and sales. The 3,000 sq. ft. office, located in Renner Plaza, was established in March by a staff of three, and has since grown to 12 people. This rapid expansion has the BrightLink Networks' Texas office already planning to move to a larger facility in Plano later this year. The new location, situated just across the Richardson line, will provide BrightLink Networks with 18,500 sq. ft. of space for its Texas staff, which is expected to grow to fifty people by year-end. BrightLink Networks is part of an influx of Silicon Valley companies moving to Richardson's booming telecom community. "BrightLink was attracted to the Richardson area because of its vast pool of telecom talent," said Dave Rodgers Dave Rodger (born 18 June, 1955 in Hamilton, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Bronze medal. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal he crewed the eight along Tony Hurt, Ivan Sutherland, Trevor Coker, Peter Dignan, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl and Alex , vice president of engineering at BrightLink Networks. "People in this area are attracted to BrightLink; they like our technology and feel confident in the intellectual property being used to develop our new optical transport switching system." The expanded offices will make room for additional software development staff as well as new marketing and customer support operations. The expanded BrightLink Networks office will be located just inside the Plano line, one block north of a massive Cisco facility planned for Richardson. The move, scheduled for later this year, will take place just in time for the first carrier lab trials of the company's new optical transport switching system product, which are anticipated to begin in the third quarter of 2000, with general availability planned for the fourth quarter of 2000. "As a well-funded start-up, we're excited about the growth opportunities we see in Richardson's very hot telecom market," said George Wheeler Captain George Montague Wheeler (born Grafton, Massachusetts, October 9, 1842) was a pioneering explorer and cartographer, leader of the Wheeler Survey, one of the major surveys of the western United States in the late nineteenth century. , software director at BrightLink Networks' Texas office. "The warm welcome we have received from the community here makes our office happy to contribute to the area's economic growth." BrightLink plans to recruit local job seekers to fill critical roles in the company. BrightLink Networks will attend two DFW DFW Dallas/Ft Worth, TX, USA - Dallas Ft Worth International (Airport Code) DFW Department of Fish and Wildlife DFW David Foster Wallace DFW Drug-Free Workplace DFW Down For Whatever (song by Pretty Young Things) Career Expo events Aug. 1 in Richardson and Aug. 2-3 in Dallas in effort to fill jobs created by the expansion. About BrightLink Networks, Inc. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., BrightLink is a pioneer in providing optical switching technology to the Interexchange Carrier See IXC. (ICX ICX Inter-Cartridge Exchange ICX Incoming Exchange ICX Intelligence Express ICX Internet College Exchange ICX Internet Content Accelerator ) market. The company began operation in 1998 and now has more than 110 employees with offices in California and Richardson, Texas Richardson is a suburb in Dallas County and Collin County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 91,803, while according to a 2006 estimate, the population had grown to 99,200. . The company is privately funded and 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. , Menlo Ventures, and 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. . For more information, contact BrightLink Networks at the contact numbers below or visit the BrightLink website, www.brightlink.com. |
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