Company Profile for Photuris.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) Photuris develops metro core and regional optical transport systems that deliver disruptive cost savings and new services over existing transport networks. Photuris' innovative Versicolor versicolor /ver·si·co·lor/ (ver?si-kol´er) variegated; having a variety of colors, or changing in color. (TM), Optical Amplifier A device that boosts light signals in an optical fiber network. Unlike regenerators, which have to convert light to electricity in order to amplify it and then convert it back again to light, the optical amplifier amplifies the light signal itself. and ADM-on-a-Wavelength(TM) line cards enable its V32000 Optical Distribution System to satisfy the unique needs of interoffice in·ter·of·fice adj. Transmitted or taking place between offices, especially those of a single organization: an interoffice memo; interoffice conferences. networks, with a carrier-preferred SONET operational approach. Photuris was founded in January 2000 with a mission to merge WDM (1) (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) A technology that uses multiple lasers and transmits several wavelengths of light (lambdas) simultaneously over a single optical fiber. and TDM networking infrastructures, and has been funded by top-tier communications investors such as Columbia Capital, Artiman Ventures and Greylock. The founders built strong management and technical teams with carrier implementation expertise from Alcatel, Bell Canada Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX: BCE, NYSE: BCE), legally BCE Inc., is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Through its subsidiaries including Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for , Cisco, Corning, Ericsson, Lucent, Nortel, Pacific Bell, Verizon and Zhone Technologies. The company's Optical Distribution System is fully developed, has passed NEBS Level 3, ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. and UL certification as well as one year's trials with incumbent and non-traditional carriers.
Company: Photuris
Headquarters Address: 20 Corporate Place South
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
Main Telephone: 732-465-1000
Website: www.photuris.com
Type of Organization: Private
Industry: Technology: Telecommunications
Key Executives: CEO: Charles Childers
COO: Bill Gartner
VP, Product Marketing & Founder: Ashish
Vengsarkar
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Email: jmb@marketready.com
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Phone: 763-548-8208
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