Calient Networks Brings Seismic Shift to All-Optical Switch Pricing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2002 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002 "Pay-As-You-Grow" structure enabled by new technology innovations and low-cost manufacturing Calient Networks, a leading provider of intelligent, photonic switching systems, announces a market leading "pay-as-you-grow" pricing structure for its newly-expanded DiamondWave(TM) product line, to enable a wide array of photonic switching applications including resilient mesh wavelength services, high bandwidth capacity mining, transparent metro core applications, and selectable levels of wavelength protection switching. Calient has leveraged its captive technologies, optical packaging innovations and vertical integration of in-house MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. switch modules to deliver a new price-benefit equation in the photonic switching market. With this vertical integration and high-yield manufacturing, Calient can pass the economic advantages of DiamondWave's all-optical system architecture to carriers. Carriers can support network growth with modular 8-port upgrades. This minimum cost to acquire and grow photonic switching capacity aligns with the carrier need to turn up services and capacity on an incremental basis. Calient list pricing is $4995 per port before volume discounts, even at low port counts. In contrast, Calient's competitors offer optical 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. that are as much as 16 times the price of a DiamondWave system configured to suit the carrier's application and scale requirements. "Our competitive advantage in the architecture and economics of optical switching is truly of seismic proportions for this industry," said Charles Corbalis, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Calient Networks. "We have matured our breakthrough MEMS design and fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. into a high-yield manufacturing process, invented new optical packaging to achieve further cost-reduction and reliability, and developed rapid automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. equipment. These in-house advances enable our fully-redundant DiamondWave photonic switches to introduce and sustain a new pricing paradigm. Any OEO (Optical in Electrical processing Optical out) Refers to network devices that convert photonic transmission signals to electronic signals in order to analyze the traffic content for switching purposes. It then reconverts the signal to light for output. Contrast with OOO. solution that attempts to deliver hybrid switching (both all-optical and opto-electronic) by integrating third-party optical switch components will find it virtually impossible to match the extremely low loss, low cost, and carrier-class redundancy of the DiamondWave products. Combined with the network-wide intelligence to build flexible mesh networks, Calient has broken the price/performance code for delivering higher speed wavelength services." "Calient has raised the bar for its competition, and effectively removed price as a barrier to photonic switch system deployment The deployment of a mechanical device, electrical system, computer program, etc., is its assembly or transformation from a packaged form to an operational working state. Deployment implies moving a product from a temporary or development state to a permanent or desired state. for carriers," stated David Krozier, RHK RHK Ratahallintokeskus (Finnish: Finnish Rail Administration) RHK Ryan Hankin Kent (RHK, Inc. marketing consulting firm) RHK Rigshospitalets Kollegium (Copenhagen, Denmark dorm) Senior Analyst in Optical Networks. "RHK believes Calient now has the lowest priced photonic switch system. But what is amazing is the DiamondWave systems are now one quarter of the OC-48 per port price of electronic fabric systems now being deployed, and for OC-192 that factor becomes one sixteenth. This demonstrates the economic advantage of switching at the optical layer." Calient anticipates that many carriers will rely on its newly announced DiamondWave 128 with a 32-port starter configuration in their transparent metro core applications, and the DiamondWave 256 switch at larger sites. For regional and long-haul applications, such as resilient wavelength services and data transport infrastructures, Calient believes that the natural adoption cycle will center on the DiamondWave 256 system at larger sites and the new DiamondWave 128 at smaller sites in a distributed mesh configuration, utilizing GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching) In a WDM optical networking system, it is the ability to route a data transmission based on the wavelength of light that carries it. . Calient's flagship DiamondWave 256 is currently in extensive application trials with IXCs, ILECs and PTTs worldwide, and has been in pre-deployment trials with initial users at Japan Telecom. About Calient Networks Calient Networks is a leading provider of intelligent, photonic switching systems and software that help service providers scale their networks for explosive bandwidth demands and deliver new wavelength services. Calient's DiamondWave(TM) switching system and GMPLS-powered networking innovations provide a seamless, `opto-electronic-to-photonic' migration path that is non-disruptive to legacy operations, highly cost-effective, and an enabler to revenue-generating optical services. Calient is shipping its DiamondWave 256 and 128 systems to carrier networks worldwide. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Additional engineering and manufacturing operations are located in Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara is a city in California, United States. It is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 92,325. , while MEMS design and fabrication operations are located in Ithaca, New York
For other places or objects named Ithaca, see Ithaca (disambiguation). . For additional information about Calient, visit www.calient.net. Calient Networks, the Calient Networks logo, and DiamondWave are trademarks of Calient Networks, Inc. |
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