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To: Bernard Levy who wrote (200)	9/22/2000 3:03:14 PM
From: NDBFREE	Respond to of 227

Cannot get to the info from the URL. Can you repost URL or the news. Thanks.

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (200)	9/24/2000 12:04:20 PM
From: NDBFREE	Respond to of 227

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. opticalaccess.com 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. opticalaccess.com 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 fiberdriver.com Single fiber - full duplex fiberdriver.com The chassis allows any combination of modules opticalaccess.com For example: Copper to fiber with up to 110km links fiberdriver.com Gigabit Ethernet connectivity at 2km ( GE std is 275-550 meters) fiberdriver.com Fibrechannel connections at 50km (std is 10km) fiberdriver.com High density Fiber Optic switching opticalaccess.com The main web site opticalaccess.com