Calient Networks Receives Prestigious 2002 R&D 100 Award.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2002 Calient Networks, a leading global provider of intelligent, photonic switching systems, announces that R&D Magazine has selected the Calient DiamondWave(TM) switch as one of 100 most technologically significant new products for 2002. The award will be presented at the 40th Anniversary R&D 100 Awards banquet at the Navy Pier in Chicago this Wednesday. R&D Magazine's international competition is judged by a panel of 100 independent industry experts. Past R&D 100 Award recipients have included technologies as diverse and impactful as antilock an·ti·lock adj. Of or being a motor vehicle braking system that electronically monitors and adjusts individual wheel speeds during braking to prevent the wheels from locking. brakes, femtosecond lasers, CAD tools for photonics, DNA analysis DNA analysis Any technique used to analyze genes and DNA. See Chromosome walking, DNA fingerprinting, Footprinting, In situ hybridization, Jeffries' probe, Jumping libraries, PCR, RFLP analysis, Southern blot hybridization. and cancer treatment tools, the fax machine, and HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates . Calient Networks' DiamondWave is an advanced, field-proven photonic switch for telecom networks. It was selected because it is the first system of its kind to successfully leverage single-crystal silicon 3D 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. (Micro-ElectroMechanical Switch) hardware, embedded software intelligence, multi-vendor interoperability to support open optical networks, and flexible interfaces to integrate with deployed telecom switches. The DiamondWave switch is the product of seven years' development in bulk MEMS mirrors, plasma micromachining, high-yield VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. manufacturing, collimator collimator (kol´imātur), n a diaphragm or system of diaphragms made of an absorbent material and designed to define the dimensions and direction of a beam of radiation. integration and rapid, automated system testing. The company has 60+ patents approved and pending, and recently announced new breakthroughs in assembly, packaging and test which enabled dramatic reductions in system pricing to carriers and entry-level configurations for smaller-capacity switching nodes. In contrast to traditional electronic switches, with limits of hundreds of Gigabit capacity, the DiamondWave switch can carry 5 Terabits of data on all 256 ports, for a total of 1 Petabit capacity. Calient's DiamondWave is a fully photonic switching system, i.e., it provides connections where the data path is purely photonic, with no electrical components or conversions. The switch dynamically and rapidly sets up and switches trunk interconnection based on interaction with other autonomous network equipment, and it is the first production equipment to do so using a newly standardized signaling protocol suite called Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (networking) Multiprotocol Label Switching - (MPLS) A packet switching protocol developed by the IETF. Initially developed to improve switching speed, other benefits are now seen as being more important. . The system is protocol-independent, i.e., the switch does not need to be replaced as protocols change. DiamondWave is also bit rate-independent, and works at existing (10 Mbit/s to 10 Gbit/s) as well as at future bit rates (40 Gbit/s to 160 Gbit/s). Calient uses 3D MEMS technology to make its ultra-dense switch. The switch is a non-blocking 256-port design, meaning that any of the 256 input ports can be connected to any of the 256 output ports, resulting in 65,000 possible switch states. This is accomplished with a mirror array that is approximately 1 cm on a side. Such incredibly high density is not possible with alternative technologies, such as liquid crystals or Lithium Niobate. Calient's co-authorship and consensus building among its peers for the Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (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. ) protocol suite also contributed to the migration of optical networking from closed and proprietary architectures to open, multi-vendor interoperable networks. Implementation of GMPLS in optical networks greatly enhances the speed and flexibility of wavelength provisioning, and the efficient use of routers to dynamically restore connections, perform load balancing and optimize restoration path performance. 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 fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. 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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