Sphera Optical Networks Opens Global Network Management Center; New Jersey Facility Provides Advanced Metro Core Network Management Capabilities.Business & Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2001 Sphera Optical Networks, Inc., a leading metro core network provider, today announced the opening of its new Global Network Management Center (GNMC GNMC Global Network Management Center GNMC Global NETOPS Management Center ) at Raritan Center Raritan Center is a large business park located in the southern portion of Edison Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey. It is one of the largest business parks in the Northeast and the largest in the County. in Edison, New Jersey Edison Township (usually known as Edison) is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 97,687, making it at the time the fifth largest municipality in New Jersey. As of the U.S. . The GNMC monitors Sphera's global metro core networks on a 24 hour/7 days a week basis with technologically advanced systems that create the highest operational level in reliability and performance for Sphera's expanding regional areas, which currently include: New York/New Jersey, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Dallas, Washington DC/Northern Virginia, Amsterdam and London. "The opening of the Global Network Management Center demonstrates Sphera's continuing commitment to solving metro-bandwidth-bottlenecks for its customers," said Harold Grossnickle, 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 Sphera. "With our new facility, we have the opportunity to provide further operational excellence within our optical metro core networks and offer our customers fast provisioning and flexible network services that meet their demands." In addition, customers have the advantages of SpheraCore Customer Network Management, which extends Sphera network management functionality to their own network operations. The customer has the option of increasing the management and control of their high capacity network traffic with secure, web-enabled tools and information provided by SpheraCore. "The GNMC and SpheraCore clearly differentiate us from other competitors in the metro core space," added Grossnickle. "We are taking a lead in network management and providing the type of network services and solutions that make service providers more competitive to their end-users." Sphera supplies the metropolitan core with high capacity connectivity from multiple service access locations in carrier hotels, co-location facilities, data centers and service providers' sites. The plans for increasing the geographic footprint, scheduled for this year, include additional connectivity in new metro regions and service access points. Sphera is giving a tour of the GNMC facility to the media and industry analysts on Tuesday, May 15, 2001 and will be scheduling tours for its customers in the weeks to come. About Sphera Optical Networks Sphera Optical Networks, headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , is a leading provider of high capacity networks for the metropolitan core using the latest 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 technology. Providing customers with high capacity networking capabilities on demand, Sphera sets a new industry standard for performance and efficiency by creating an environment of reduced provisioning intervals, expanded network reach, protocol independence, reliability and advanced network management capabilities for carriers, ISPs, ASPs and worldwide service providers. For additional information, visit the web site, www.spheranetworks.com or contact Aleassa Schambers, Manager, Marketing Communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales , Sphera Optical Networks, 666 Third Avenue, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY, 10017, 646-205-4705. |
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