This is what a press release looks like from Supercomm....just in case anyone was curious there is a
major trade show going on in Atlanta this week and
I think MRV has something to present there???....sheesh
(PR NEWSWIRE) Appian is Honored at SUPERCOMM 2000's SUPERQuest Awards for Breaking the
Service Management and Bandwidth Bottlenecks Between Business Users and the
Metro Network
Industry's First Active Optical Services Technology Cited for Soft-Tunable
Bandwidth, Lightspeed Service Activation, Customer Self-Provisioning and
Comprehensive Service Interworking
SuperComm Booth #3323
ATLANTA, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Appian Communications, innovators of
intelligent networking products for the new optical edge of service provider
networks, was honored today at the 3rd annual SUPERQuest Awards at the Atlanta
SUPERCOMM 2000 Show for its Optical Services Activation Platform(TM)
(OSAP(TM)) 4800. Designed for placement in multi-tenant buildings, office
parks and dense urban Central Office (CO) locations, the OSAP 4800 is the
industry's first carrier-class optical access solution with the active
intelligence to deliver soft-tunable bandwidth guarantees, multi-service
interworking, and on-demand, end-to-end bandwidth provisioning. The
SUPERQuest honors were awarded in recognition of the OSAP's ability to enable
service providers to offer such innovative services as customer self-
provisioning and virtually infinite incremental tuning of bandwidth capacity.
"This is a singularly important recognition from the industry, one that
has in the past served as an early indicator of what have become the
industry's preeminent and most widely-deployed technologies," noted Appian
Founder and CEO Mick Scully. "We look forward to working closely with our
growing base of service providers to reshape the metrics and economics of
optical access service delivery."
The SUPERQuest Awards honor the best built networks and most promising new
technologies at SUPERCOMM 2000. Recognition is given to exhibitors and their
customers -- whether those customers are public network service providers or
enterprise end users -- that have made the most extraordinary achievements in
telecommunications worldwide.
Appian is conducting its first public demonstrations of the OSAP 4800 at
SUPERCOMM 2000, including its software tunable bandwidth guarantees, remote
provisioning capability, and unprecedented provider and customer management
functionality.
Appian's recently announced OSAP 4800 lets providers and users immediately
provision bandwidth as needed, enabling users to cost-effectively meet dynamic
traffic peaks, launch strategic outsourcing initiatives such as Application
Service Provider (ASP) outsourcing, and expand their network services in
concert with organizational and market-driven needs. Equally important,
Appian's OSAP enables service providers to translate their direct customer
access and the core network's rich bandwidth into substantial, competitive new
services and profit streams.
The OSAP 4800 replaces the Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) service
delivery bottleneck in the access network with a new level of service
deployment called "Etherband." Providing more flexible and scalable bandwidth
beyond traditional access technologies, Appian's innovative Etherband
architecture leverages the compelling economics and ubiquity of the industry's
dominant technologies: Ethernet in the customer premise environment, and SONET
and DWDM in the service provider transport network.
About Appian Communications
Appian Communications, Inc. (www.appiancom.com) is a venture-backed
optical networking startup formed to define the intelligent optical edge and
enable new carrier services. Appian is developing an award-winning suite of
intelligent and flexible products that solve the "sipping straw" access
problem that separates businesses from cost-effective bandwidth capacity and
service adaptability, and carriers from significant new revenues. Appian has
been recognized at the SUPERCOMM 2000's SUPERQuest Awards, was named a "Red
Hot Startup" by America's Network, and was named by Telecommunications
Magazine as "A 2000 Hot Pick Startup to Watch."
About The SuperQuest Awards
SUPERQuest honors the best built networks and most promising new
technologies at SUPERCOMM 2000. Awards are given to exhibitors and their
customers--whether those customers are public network service providers or
enterprise end users--that have made the most extraordinary achievements in
telecommunications worldwide. The SUPERQuest Awards program is sponsored by
CMP Media's tele.com and by the Telecommunications Industry Association and
the United States Telephone Association, sponsors of SUPERCOMM 2000.
For additional information, please contact:
David Powers Maureen MacGregor
Appian Communications Pelorus Communications
978.206.7165 978-779-8969
dpowers@appiancom.com maureen@peloruscom.com
Appian Communications, the Appian Communications logo, Optical Services
Activation Platform, OSAP, AppianVista and Optical Data Protection are
trademarks and Intelligent Optical Edge is a service mark of Appian
Communications, Inc.
SOURCE Appian Communications
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/CONTACT: David Powers of Appian Communications, 978-206-7165,
dpowers@appiancom.com; or Maureen MacGregor of Pelorus Communications for
Appian Communications, 978-779-8969, maureen@peloruscom.com/
/Web site: appiancom.com
CO: Appian Communications
ST: Georgia
IN: TLS
SU: TDS
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