Earlier this year Jolt and Astroterra (competitors with Terabeam and AirFiber) were acquired by MRVC and combined into a new company, Optical Access, Inc. which is being prepared for IPO within 3 months. In addition MRVC merged in their Fiber Driver and Opti-switch product lines (formerly from Nbase-Xyplex)
Within the last 24 hours, their website became active, as they are exhibiting at N+I this week.
Check it out! The technology looks awesome! Terabeam doesn't stack up.
Look at the small size of the Terascope - with range up to 5 miles.
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Optical Mesh Architecture that they say can guarantee 99.999% up time and is scaleable from 1 Mbps to over 1 Gbps with provisioning controlled in increments of just 1 Mbps.
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Fiber Driver - basically connect anything to anything (copper-fiber, singlemode fiber - multimode fiber, ATM,
10/100/1000 Ethernet, WDM, ESCON, FDDI, SONET, OC-3, OC-12
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Single fiber - full duplex
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The chassis allows any combination of modules
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For example:
Copper to fiber with up to 110km links
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Gigabit Ethernet connectivity at 2km ( GE std is 275-550 meters)
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Fibrechannel connections at 50km (std is 10km)
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High density Fiber Optic switching
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The main web site
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