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New Access...
Overview
Located in California's Silicon Valley, New Access Communications is an
innovative new company in the field of optical networks. Since its inception
in 1998, New Access has been developing next generation transport
system for metropolitan and regional networks.
As the internet continues to fuel exponential bandwidth growth in the public
network, more scalable, cost effective solutions are needed for service
providers building the next generation networks. These solutions must
address both current and future needs of service providers. New Access is
developing this technology for regional, metropolitan, and access networks.
New Access' Products
The MetroFusion product line from New Access Communications is a next
generation transport system, based on Dynamic Dense Wave Division
technology. Its architecture allows for any-to-any node connectivity on a
metropolitan ring at unprecedented cost/bandwidth ratio. Current DWDM
ring systems require a wavelength per connection on a ring resulting in
exorbitant prices. The MetroFusion architecture is optimized for Internet
traffic by utilizing a central cross-connecting element, called the
MetroCore, to allow full interconnectivity among ring nodes while only
requiring a single wavelength per node. Other DWDM systems have been
designed for business-to-business or point-to-point communications where
not all nodes belong to the same network. As a result, the cost of such
systems scale as the square of the number of nodes, whereas the
MetroFusion system costs scale linearly with the number of nodes.
MetroFusion has been enthusiastically received by the industry as
evidenced by the following awards:
COMNET 1999 - Best of Show, New Product Achievement Award
SuperComm 1999 - Honorable Mention, Most Promising New
Technology - SuperQuest Award
Founded
New Access is a privately held, venture-funded company incorporated in
March 1998 under the state laws of Delaware. Founder Dr. Near Margalit
invented the Dynamic DWDM technology in the New Access products.
Investors
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Juniper Networks
MRV Communications
Officers/Management Team
Anthony (Tony) Lavia, Ph.D. - President and CEO
Tony Lavia, a veteran of the telecommunications industry, has served in
executive management positions at Newbridge Networks, Nortel and Bell
Canada. As Vice President and General Manager of the ATMnet business
unit at Newbridge Networks, he was responsible for leading the business to
number one in market share. As Vice President and General Manager of
broadband switching at Northern Telecom, Tony was responsible for the
company's ATM broadband product portfolio. While at Bell Canada, he was
responsible for the planning and operation of national data communications
networks, including the first commercial telecommunications packet
network. Tony received a B.S. in Math and Physics from McMaster
(Canada), and a Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from
the University of Waterloo (Canada).
Near Margalit, Ph.D. - Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Margalit, company founder and the inventor of the MetroFusion
architecture, was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa
Barbara in Optoelectronics after receiving his B.S. from Caltech in Applied
Physics. He has published over 30 papers in technical journals and
conferences in the field of optoelectronics. Near was formerly employed by
MRV Communications, both in the Optical Access and Nbase divisions.
Paul Yazge - Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Prior to joining New Access, Paul served as Regional Sales Director at
Ciena Communications where he is credited with opening the RBOC
market with the first DWDM commercial deployments. Paul has over 15
years experience in both the telecommunications and data
communications industries. Prior to Ciena, Paul served in sales and
marketing positions at Cisco Systems, Stratacom, and Hughes Network
Systems.
Asif Iqbal, Ph.D. - Vice President, Hardware Engineering &
Manufacturing
Asif earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has 15 years of
experience in designing networking and computer systems working for
Berkeley Networks/FORE Systems, Sun Microsystems, IBM Corporation
and NCR Corporation. Prior to joining New Access, he was Director of
Engineering at Berkeley Networks, a startup acquired by FORE Systems,
where he participated in the design of a 40Gbps Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Paz Gilboa - Vice President, Telecom Products
With 18 years experience in the telecommunications industry, Paz most
recently served as CTO and VP of R&D at RadioTel Ltd. He has also held
positions with ECI Telecom and Motorola, as well as acting as a consultant
for fiber optic transmission networks for various vendors and operators in
Israel.
Eytan Shaham - Director, NMS Development
Eytan has 15 years experience in building Telecom network management
applications for SS#7 systems, CrossConnect systems and management
of integrated solutions. Before joining New Access, Eytan served as the
R&D Director of NMS at ECI Telecom's Transport Networks. Prior
experience includes Tadiran Telecommunications Ltd. where Eytan
specialized in architecting TMN compliant management solutions.
Parthiban Kandappan - Director, ASICs Development
Parthi has over 13 years of experience in ASIC design and development.
As Engineering Manager, he was part of the founding team at Berkeley
Networks, with responsibility for the high speed distribution packet
switching fabric. Prior to Berkeley Networks, Parthi worked at 3Com on the
Corebuilder3500 multi-protocol switch, at Ascom Nexion on a carrier class
ATM switch, and for over seven years at Digital Equipment Corp. designing
OC3 SARs, FDDI Crypto-processors and PCI controller ASICs.
Board of Directors
Anthony Lavia, Ph.D. - CEO and President, New Access
Communications
Near Margalit, Ph.D. - Founder and CTO
Noam Lotan - CEO and President, MRV Communications
Pradeep Sindhu - Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer,
Juniper Networks
William R. Hearst III - Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
