Ceyba Defines the New Optical Core With Its Unique Networking Solution.

Business Editors

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002

Integrated Solution Delivers Significant Cost Savings and

Accelerated Provisioning of 10 and 40Gbps Wavelengths

Across Long Haul and Ultra-Long Haul Networks

Ceyba Inc. today announced the industry's first solution with the inherent flexibility to deliver on the promise of the new optical core. The Ceyba Agile Networking Solution provides carriers with a common platform for rapid, end-to-end provisioning of both 10 and 40Gbps wavelengths across long haul and ultra-long haul networks. It eliminates the need for electrical regeneration and greatly reduces the role of optical-electrical-optical (OEO) switching in the network core. Ceyba's Agile Networking Solution will offer carriers and service providers capital cost savings of up to 70 percent relative to common deployments today.

"We feel confident that this will be the core optical networking solution that carriers will turn to as they begin to make their next wave of infrastructure deployments. Even over incremental routes, Ceyba's Agile Networking Solution will drastically reduce a carrier's capital and operational costs from the onset. There are substantial savings to be achieved by merely reducing the number of OEO switches that demand power and space in the service provider's physical plant," said Scott Marshall, CEO and President of Ceyba. "The new optical core is about networking without limits, or you can think of it as the Autobahn - no speed bumps, no toll booths - designed for optimal performance."

"Carriers are evaluating the next generation of core optical equipment, and they're going to look closely at solutions like the Ceyba Agile Networking Solution which address transport constraints that have kept first generation optically transparent systems from widespread deployment," said David Krozier, Senior Analyst with RHK. "Ceyba has developed a product that saves carriers money today, as fiber exhaust develops along high-density routes, and it helps carriers build more flexible networks in the future."

The Ceyba Agile Networking Solution integrates the C420(TM) Dynamic Optical Networking System, a next-generation Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platform, and the M900(TM) LightWave Management Suite. This unique offering - the industry's first to support a carrier's full range of customer traffic, both 10 and 40Gbps applications - raises the bar on network performance and carrier cost savings. Several key enablers make Ceyba's Agile Networking Solution a watershed release:

    --  Ability to mix 10 and 40Gbps channels in the same transmission
        band

       --  Delivering full flexibility and minimal stranded bandwidth

    --  All-reach networking and fiber agnostic operation

       --  Optimally addressing the full range of carrier traffic

    --  Flexible "WaveHub" architecture

       --  Eliminating costly OEO conversions by enabling optical
            bypass at junction sites

    --  Unique implementation of Dynamic Transmission Control

        --  Automating wavelength turn-up and self-regulating network
            maintenance

    --  Integrated LightWave Diagnostics(TM) toolkit

        --  Enabling the operations of optically transparent networks

"Ceyba is delivering a collection of unique capabilities that enable carriers to deploy the new optical core - an optically transparent core network that will result in drastic cost savings combined with greatly accelerated wavelength provisioning," said Benoit Fleury, VP of Product Management and Marketing with Ceyba. "We have removed the performance, operational and cost constraints that have so far prevented optically transparent core networks from any serious deployments. Ceyba's Agile Networking Solution is based on a simple yet extremely powerful architecture that offers a highly practical and very compelling solution from which carriers can gain significant benefits starting today."

General availability of Ceyba's Agile Networking Solution is solidly on track for June 2002.

About Ceyba

Founded in May 2000, Ceyba (www.ceyba.com) is a private company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Ceyba's core optical networking solutions help carriers and service providers boost the profitability of their networks. The company's world-class development and operations team applies leading-edge technology, combined with engineering excellence, to drastically simplify the architecture of the core network. This reduces customers' capital and operational costs, accelerates end-to-end channel turn-up and enables deployment of new, differentiated services.

C420, M900 and LightWave Diagnostics are trademarks of Ceyba Inc.