Gary --
The Street.Com doesn't like NN, the same way it didn't like Ascend for a long time. The service is built on emotion --- as well as solid information --- so goes out of its way to build a story. Now that Cramer's pushing Ascend, he has to downplay the competition. To my way of thinking, why not play them both?
At any rate, some forget to factor in NN's affiliate partner's WDM strength:
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NEWS RELEASE TRANSMITTED BY CANADIAN CORPORATE NEWS
FOR: CAMBRIAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
JUNE 1, 1998
Cambrian Systems and Lucent Technologies Collaborate to
Demonstrate Interoperability of Optical Networking
Systems
KANATA, ONTARIO--Optical networking leaders Cambrian Systems and Lucent Technologies today announced their collaboration on
interoperability between their metropolitan and long-haul Dense
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) systems. Interoperable
DWDM products enable service providers to build flexible,
scalable, cost-effective networks.
Both companies successfully completed initial testing between
Lucent's WaveStar(TM) OLS 40G and Cambrian's OPTera(TM) Metro DWDM systems, as well as Lucent's WaveStar OLS 400G long-haul DWDM system. Cambrian and Lucent will demonstrate interoperability of their systems at SUPERCOMM'98 in both the Cambrian Booth #(8051) and Lucent Booth (#6639).
This collaborative effort focuses on optical interworking through
open interfaces and includes joint testing of end-to-end
transmission across multiple DWDM systems. In addition, Cambrian
and Lucent are exploring unified network management and
applications for specific customers.
"In the competitive local network, DWDM-based optical transport
networks are critical to the service providers ability to
effectively manage rapid, unpredictable growth and to meet
increasing bandwidth demands. Cambrian believes the value of DWDM will be greatly enhanced for our customers through coordinated and tested interoperability. We are committed to full support of the standards process, but also recognize the value of working with other leading DWDM providers such as Lucent Technologies to extend the application of optical technology in carriers' networks", said Don Smith, president and CEO of Cambrian Systems.
Cambrian and Lucent are also evaluating joint support of those
standards that will best accelerate the development of widespread
interoperability for the industry as a whole.
"It's added insurance for carriers when their optical networking
equipment is not only standards compliant, but fully compatible
with systems from different vendors," said Gerry Butters,
president of Lucent's Optical Networking business. "Our joint
testing and progress with Cambrian is further proof of Lucent's
commitment to developing products that are truly interoperable,
enabling service providers to take advantage of the most advanced
optical technologies in their network while maximizing cost
efficiency."
Lucent's WaveStar OLS 40G directly supports a full range of SONET
and high-speed data rates used in metropolitan areas. This system
allows service providers to economically transport a wide range of
services, such as voice, video and data, with the same circuit
pack over the same fiber - providing ultimate flexibility and cost
control in meeting the need for rapid service deployment.
Designed by Bell Labs, Lucent's WaveStar OLS 40G provides a wide
array of interface options - OC-3, 12 and 48 SONET rates, as well
as any data rate or format in the 150-750 Megabit per second. In
addition, the system supports up to 16 wavelengths configured in a
wide variety of network architectures - including ring, linear and
flexible add/drop -- and supports span distances of up to 132
kilometers.
Also designed by Bell Labs, Lucent's WaveStar OLS 400G provides up to 400 gigabits per second over a single strand of fiber -
record-breaking capacity that's well ahead of competitive systems
available today. This single-platform system is the first to
enable communications providers to grow incrementally from one to
80 wavelengths, or channels. This optical networking system can be
configured to handle up to eight fibers, each transmitting 400
gigabits per second, to give communications providers a maximum
capacity of 3.2 terabits (or 3.2 trillion bits) per second of
voice, video and data traffic. That's equivalent to transmitting
over 90,000 volumes of an encyclopedia in one second.
Cambrian Systems' OPTera is a survivable metropolitan DWDM
transport system delivering 32 wavelengths or channels for a total
capacity scalable to 80 gigabits per second over a single strand
of fiber. OPTera's modular, cost-effective architecture enables
direct bit-rate and protocol independent transport of a broad
range of signals including SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, D1 Video,
fiber channel, ESCON and other signal formats up to 2.5 gigabits
per second with or without optical amplifiers. Per wavelength
optical supervisory channel and ring protection switching enable
flexible, high quality service delivery. OPTera offers DWDM
metropolitan transport solutions for the future, today.
Cambrian and Lucent indicated that further work on
interoperability will continue through the remainder of the year,
and further progress is expected to be demonstrated at the
National Fiber Optic Engineering Conference (NFOEC) in September.
About Cambrian Systems
Cambrian Systems Corporation - Where Bandwidth Means Business.
Cambrian provides advanced photonic networking solutions based on
DWDM for metropolitan and interoffice networks. Cambrian designs,
manufactures and markets its DWDM based OPTera product family to
service providers globally. Cambrian is headquartered in Kanata,
Ontario, Canada. For additional information visit the company's
World Wide Web site at cambriansys.com or call (613)
599-6060.
About Lucent
Lucent technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill , New jersey,
designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private
networks, communications systems and software, data networking
systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics
components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm
for the company. For more information on Lucent technologies,
visit the company's web site at lucent.com
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