Glimmerglass Announces New Solutions for Remotely Managing Optical Fibers.

Higher Capacity Intelligent Optical Switch Offerings in the Industry's Smallest Form Factor Include Major Feature Enhancements for Creating, Monitoring and Protecting Fiber Connections in Carrier and Government Networks

HAYWARD, Calif. -- Glimmerglass today announced new versions of its Intelligent Optical Switch family with new features designed to facilitate remotely and automatically creating, monitoring and protecting fiber connections. The new versions deliver fully non-blocking transparent connectivity in the industry's smallest form factor. A 3.5-inch (2U) package houses as many as 190 fibers and a 7-inch (4U) package supports as many as 380 fibers. The company also announced a new switch management console - enabling centralized management of fiber infrastructure throughout a network.

Optimized for carrier and government mission-critical customers, Glimmerglass' new Release 4.0 enables remote management of multiple complex fiber plant locations. For the first time, network administrators can monitor traffic and optical performance throughout their network, detect and isolate failed connections and configure automatic fail-over paths to route-around broken fibers or problematic line interface electronics from a central location. Other enhancements include additional redundancy and alarm-management options.

The new management console enables multiple Glimmerglass switches to be linked and managed with a single control interface. Using this interface, physical-layer fiber connections are managed from the desktop instead of driving to multiple network locations to manually patch and test fiber connections. As well, the console enables organizations to logically segment a single large switch into multiple virtual switches that can be shared between departments, improving security and saving money.

"As optical fiber deployments continue to grow, carriers face rapidly escalating costs associated with the employment of skilled network technicians to create, monitor and protect fiber optic connections in a complex fiber plant," said Robert Lundy, CEO and president of Glimmerglass. "Glimmerglass' Intelligent Optical Switch solutions provide a dramatic improvement in operational efficiency."

About Glimmerglass

Glimmerglass is developing solutions at the core of the new optical Internet. The company's Intelligent Optical Switches cost-effectively create, monitor and protect advanced communication services. Glimmerglass products manage physical-layer fiber connections that carry IP over DWDM, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 40 Gigabit SONET/SDH, FTTx, video, RF over fiber and more. System operators of commercial networks, mission-critical defense systems, advanced optical testing facilities and high-performance research networks worldwide rely on Glimmerglass to remotely and automatically configure optical fiber. Visit www.glimmerglass.com.

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