Copyright © 2026 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.https://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=28832 Corvis -- a telecommunications equipment manufacturer and potentially the next Cisco, Ciena, Ascend, or Juniper -- is on the cutting edge. It is about to roll out an all-optical multi-terabit router for telecommunications companies. Located in Columbia, Maryland, it is the second venture of David Huber, the founder and brains behind Ciena. Already has two rounds of financing from two major venture capital firms: Kleiner,Perkins and NEA. Cisco bought a 10% stake. When Corvis goes IPO, it'll be big. website: corvis.com 06.3.99 CORVIS CORPORATION UNVEILS ITS ALL-OPTICAL MULTI-TERABIT PRODUCT LINE SERIES OF NETWORK DEMONSTRATIONS AT SUPERCOMM '99 Transparent all-optical switching, transport and network management solutions will revolutionize the way traffic is moved and business is conducted in the new Internet-driven telecommunications industry Columbia, Md., June 3, 1999 – Corvis Corporation will unveil the industry's first all-optical network at Supercomm: the CorWave™ product family. With order of magnitude savings compared to available networks, Corvis networks provide carriers with strategic and competitive advantages enabling them to lead the information age revolution. By delivering high-capacity all-optical switching, transport and network management, Corvis combines the three critical capabilities required for the next generation Internet backbone. Each of the CorWave™ products provides far higher performance than any other products available today. Key advances include: Transport of 160 densely-packed OC-48 optical signals or 40 OC-192 optical paths on a single fiber, Transmission distances of 3200 kilometers without any electronic regeneration: a distance that makes all-optical networks a reality and optical switches immensely valuable, Transparent optical switching with a capacity of up to 2.4 Terabits, Enhanced optical network management software permitting carriers to provision ultra-long optical paths remotely and without field intervention, and Innovative protection capabilities in the optical layer. "Corvis has been able to execute on three key market fronts: transport, switching and network management in a very short time," states Mathew Steinberg of RHK (Ryan, Hankin & Kent). "This permits Corvis to pursue a combined annual market space of $5-7 billion." Corvis combines all-optical switching, transport and network management into a transparent physical mesh. This mesh may be organized into many logical architectures, permitting more flexible c...https://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttps://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=2883238013210