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To: rascalbythesea who wrote (12312)2/26/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: signist  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42804
 
February 26, 1999 18:43

MRV COMMUNICATIONS INC files prospectus for notes, stock.

Excerpted from 424B3 filed on 02/26 by MRV COMMUNICATIONS INC:

MRV COMMUNICATIONS INC files prospectus for notes, stock.

Prospectus Supplement filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)

PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT NO. 1
TO PROSPECTUS DATED DECEMBER 11, 1998
REGISTRATION NO. 333-64017

We are amending our prospectus dated December 11, 1998, registering
certain resales of our $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5% Convertible
Subordinated Notes due 2003 and the shares of our common stock, issuable upon
conversion of the Notes. This revised information is presented as of February
15, 1999. To the extent the information here differs from the information set
forth for each of these entities in our prospectus, this information supersedes
any prior information.

The information concerning the following entities in the Selling
Securityholders section of the Prospectus located on pages 75 through 78

is amended to read:
TABLE
CAPTION

Principal Amount of Notes
Name of --------------------------------
Selling Securityholders Owned Offered

S C C
BNP Arbitrage SNC 3,000,000 3,000,000
Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette Securities Corp. 3,580,000 3,580,000
Forest Alternative Strategies Fund A-5 3,730,000 3,730,000
Forest Alternative Strategies Fund A-5I 300,000 300,000
Forest Alternative Strategies Fund A-5M 75,000 75,000
Forest Global Convertible Fund A-5 4,500,000 4,500,000
LLT Limited 200,000 200,000
Prudential Securities, Inc. 10,640,000 10,640,000
True Value Fund, L.P. 3,700,000 3,700,000
TABLE

TABLE
CAPTION
Common Stock

Number of
Number of Shares
Shares Beneficially
Beneficially Owned upon Percent of
Owned prior to Conversion of Outstanding
Name of Selling Securityholder this Offering the Notes(1) Shares(2)

S C C C
BNP Arbitrage SNC(5) 120,665 120,665 *
Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette
Securities Corp. 132,359 132,359 *
Forest Alternative Strategies
Fund A-5 137,095 137,095 *
Forest Alternative Strategies
Fund A-5I 11,091 11,091 *
Forest Alternative Strategies
Fund A-5M 2,772 2,772 *
Forest Global Convertible Fund
A-5 166,373 166,373 *
LLT Limited 7,394 7,394 *
Prudential Securities, Inc. 393,382 393,382 *
True Value Fund, L.P. 136,796 136,796 *
TABLE

(5) Includes 9,750 shares of common stock beneficially owned by the Selling
Securityholder.

(End of Item Excerpt)

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To: rascalbythesea who wrote (12312)3/1/1999 12:24:00 AM
From: Regis McConnell  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 42804
 
To all...

Just going over the MetroFusion Architecture brochure from NAC that came Friday. Also, have been following the recent news releases from Lucent (WaveStar), Nortel (OPTera Metro), & Osicom (GigaMux), & trying to understand the similarities & differences to NAC's MetroFusion. Correct me if I am wrong, but none of the announced products do Dynamic DWDM, no optical switches which seem to be at the core of MetroFusion. All these seem to offer flexability via additional lasers & recievers for each node. Am I correct? They seem to have big capacity, lotz of lazers over a fiber, but no any point to any point via one lazer like NAC. If so, & NAC is issued patents on the Dynamice DWDM, what might it be worth?

Lucy's...

go2net.newsalert.com

"The WaveStar AllMetro OLS also features both fixed and flexible optical add/drop capabilities that enable service providers to choose how they add or drop wavelengths across specific routes as needed."

"When used for enterprise networks, carriers can mix and match systems that can offer up to four, eight, 20 or 40 wavelengths of bandwidth on a single fiber with varying add/drop capabilities to create the most cost-effective network for each customer request."

Isn't this saying that the "varying add/drop capabilities" to create those "cost-effective network"s is done by adding more or less lasers?
Not dynamically, via a single laser.

"...will be commercially available in the fourth calendar quarter of 1999."


Nortels marketing bruhaha sound very similar, lotz of 'capacity', but isn't it also done via many lasers?

go2net.newsalert.com

go2net.newsalert.com

"OPTera Metro optimizes the use of the current fiber infrastructure and provides flexible connectivity over a point-to-point or survivable ring-based network that ensures millisecond restoration in case of a
fiber cut..."

Osicom seems to do similar stuff, in varying degrees.

go2net.newsalert.com

"GigaMux supports fault tolerant DWDM rings as well as point-to-point network configurations."

& of course MRVC/NAC

go2net.newsalert.com

Can anybody help clarify my interpretation? I'd really like to know if these DWDM products contain any optical switching, or simply lotz of lazers. NAC specifically says one lazer per node to any point on the ring commucications, ect.... which means the MetroCore does the optical switching. Any clarification is appreciated. Thanx.
Regis