CIENA Inciting Telecomm Revolution.LINTHICUM, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 15, 1999-- The View from the Front Line -- OFC OFC Office OFC Officer OFC Of Course OFC Oxygen Free Copper OFC Oceania Football Confederation (soccer) OFC Optical Fiber Cable OFC Optical Fiber Communications OFC Optical Fiber Conference Booth No. 901 Visitors to the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference '99 at the San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. from Feb. 23 - 25, will witness the comprehensive strategy and array of revolutionary products that CIENA Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CIEN CIEN Ciena Corporation (stock symbol) ) and its industry partners have coordinated to advance the transformation of the telecommunications infrastructure. As leaders in this transformation, representatives from Enron Communications, GST GST abbr. Greenwich sidereal time GST (in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) Goods and Services Tax Telecommunications and Sprint will be at CIENA's Booth No. 901 to discuss their network strategies and their deployments of CIENA's market leading 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. products. On both Feb. 23 and 24 the appearance schedule at CIENA's booth includes: -0-
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Enron Communications - "IP over DWDM".
Stan Hanks, Vice President of Research and Technology.
Enron Communications is building long-haul fiber-optic
networks on strategic routes throughout the United States in
an effort to create a data-centric national fiber-optic
backbone. Enron Communications focuses on the wholesale
bandwidth needs of the telecommunications service provider.
OFC Appearance schedule (continued):
1:00 - 2:00 PM: GST Telecommunications - "Integrated Optical
Networking" Phil Markwart, Senior Engineer.
GST Telecommunications, Inc., an Integrated Communications
Provider (ICP) headquartered in Vancouver, Wash., provides a
broad range of integrated telecommunications products and
services, including local dial tone, Internet, long distance,
and enhanced data services throughout California and the
Unites States.
2:00 - 3:00 PM: Sprint - "Enabling Broadband
Services--Sprint's ION Network" Bill Szeto, Manager, New
Technology Programs.
Sprint is a global communications company at the forefront of
integrating long distance, local and wireless communications
services. The company built and operates the United States'
only nationwide, all-digital, fiber-optic network. A leader
in advanced data communications services, Sprint is also one
of the world's largest carriers of Internet traffic.
For more information about CIENA's revolutionary approach to optical networking or for additional details about OFC in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , visit CIENA's new website www.ciena.com/revolution. About CIENA Based in Linthicum, CIENA Corp. is a market leader of open architecture, optical networking systems that form the core of telecommunications networks worldwide. CIENA's networking solutions utilize bandwidth expanding dense wavelength division multiplexing See 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 ) technology and include the MultiWave(R) 1600 long-haul transport system, WaveWatcher(R) network management software, the MultiWave Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer, the MultiWave Sentry(tm) enhanced long-distance transport system and the new MultiWave(R) Firefly and MultiWave Metro(tm) short-haul systems. Through its CIENA Services subsidiary, CIENA provides a range of engineering, furnishing and installation (EF&I) services for telecommunications service providers in the areas of transport, switching and wireless communications. |
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