Movaz Networks Announces Network Supply Agreement with America Online.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002 Company To Deploy Movaz' RAY Product Portfolio Movaz Networks, a leading provider of optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. solutions, today announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar supplier agreement with America Online, Inc. for deployment of Movaz' RAY product portfolio, an advanced optical networking solution cohesively integrated with breakthrough technologies for a wide variety of applications. Movaz products will be used to power AOLwave, AOL's all-optical metropolitan area network which provides high capacity connectivity between AOL's major data center facilities. AOLwave also serves as the on-ramp to the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Transit Data Network (ATDN ATDN AOL Transit Data Network ATDN Any Time Day or Night ATDN Advanced Technology Demonstration Network (Darpa) ATDN Amazon Tree Diversity Network ), AOL's international high speed Internet backbone. Both RAYexpress(TM), a high capacity OADM OADM Optical (WDM) Add-Drop Multiplexer OADM Optical Add Drop Multiplexer , and the RAYstar(TM), an integrated optical transport and switching platform are utilized in these applications to provide on-demand service availability. "As advanced Internet applications significantly increase data traffic, they require dynamic service provisioning capabilities to meet real time user needs. Movaz is focused on delivering products that can scale to terabits of managed capacity and meeting the diverse requirements of our customers," said Bijan Khosravi, Founder, Chairman 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 Movaz Networks. "This agreement with America Online is a tremendous opportunity for Movaz and we are looking forward to building a long term relationship." "We selected Movaz Networks as a DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing vendor because RAYexpress and the RAYstar provide significant footprint and cost advantages for both AOLwave and ATDN," said John Schanz, Senior Vice President of Network Operations at America Online, Inc. "Movaz's RAY products give us a flexible and evolvable platform to provide metro transport with a high level of network wide scalability." About Movaz Networks Movaz Networks provides a Unified Metro Optical Infrastructure by enabling all optical solutions for cost effective delivery of managed wavelength services. The company's products, designed for established and emerging carriers, are full-featured carrier-class solutions incorporating advanced optical transport, distributed 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. protocols, and standards based network management. Movaz's RAY product portfolio is generally available and deployed globally in a multitude of applications. |
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