Movaz Networks extends all-optical leadership with Universal CWDM & DWDM Platform; Movaz will unveil leading edge CWDM product at OFC in Atlanta, Georgia.

Business Editors

OFC 2003

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003

Movaz Networks, a leading provider of optical networking solutions, announced today the launch of its new CWDM platform. Building on the proven success of its globally deployed RAYexpress DWDM platform, Movaz Networks is now bringing to market an extremely cost attractive optical edge device for high bandwidth data, storage and TDM services.

The new RAYexpress CWDM will enable Movaz Networks to extend its already broad customer base to include lower demand enterprise customers, consolidation of multi-tenant traffic and SAN over light solutions. The new product will seamlessly integrate with Movaz's RAYexpress OADM and RAYstar transport and switching platform to deliver additional revenue opportunities for its installed base of customers as well as further expanding the broad application sets for new customer.

The RAYexpress CWDM is available day one with a comprehensive list of native, transparent and aggregated interfaces, including OC3/12/48/192, STM1/4/16/64, GigE, and IBM tested ESCON. One of the key benefits Movaz brings is the commonality of these interface cards between the DWDM RAYexpress and the CWDM RAYexpress, which results in significant savings in sparing and inventory costs for carriers. Furthermore, the RAYexpress CWDM supports Small Form factor Pluggable (SFP) optics on its tributaries, thus enabling flexible plug and play for instantaneous adaptability to specific customer interfacing requirements. While it is cost optimized for short-haul applications, the CWDM RAYexpress can reach 120 km of transmission distance without any amplification to even support transport of optical services right across the metro. Finally, a fully integrated and GMPLS empowered network management platform seamlessly provisions optical services right from the customer premise to the metro core across CWDM and DWDM systems.

"The RAYexpress CWDM represents another design and engineering ingenuity of our development team as well as their responsiveness to meeting customer needs," said Bijan Khosravi, chairman and CEO, Movaz Networks. "Movaz has already had several successes with enterprise customers, as demonstrated by the Emory University and Georgia Tech network wins. The CWDM RAYexpress enables Movaz to reach a broader set of enterprise customers as well as ILECs that are aggressively offering enterprise services."

"There is emerging momentum behind the use of CWDM in private enterprise networks as well as the access networks of metro service providers," stated Scott Clavenna, President of PointEast Research. "Many enterprise locations were initially connected only with low fiber counts and these locations are now facing fiber exhaust as the data service requirements of the tenants expand rapidly. Movaz Networks has identified a need to solve these choke points in these networks with the introduction of CWDM capabilities for the RAYexpress."

Movaz's entire portfolio, including the RAYexpress CWDM and DWDM, will be showcased at the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in Hall B, booth 7150, from March 25 through 27.

About Movaz Networks

Movaz Networks is a globally established equipment supplier that provides next generation all optical solutions for delivery of cost effective wavelength services. The company's products, designed for metro and regional service providers, are full-featured carrier-class solutions incorporating advanced optical transport, distributed photonic switching, GMPLambdaS (generalized multi-protocol lambda switching) protocols, and standards based network management. Movaz is shipping generally available products to customers throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit Movaz on the web at http://www.movaz.com.