Atlantech Online Increases Backbone Network Capacity with
Optical Equipment
CHATSWORTH, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE)
— MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Nasdaq:MRVC), a leading provider of products and
services for out-of-band networking, WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet,
fiber optic components, 10GE and other service aware networking products, today
announced Maryland-based regional carrier Atlantech Online Inc. has chosen the
LambdaDriver(r) wave-division multiplexing (WDM) system as the basis for its
300-kilometer backbone network, which delivers services to customers in the
Washington D.C. area.
Atlantech’s customer base includes federal agencies and small and large
enterprise customers. The company offers transport services, leased wavelengths,
point-to-point circuits, MPLS, datacenter collocation and, as of the beginning
of 2006, voice services. The service provider has been in business since 1995,
growing its business using standard time division multiplexing (TDM) and then
leased lit fiber services. Atlantech began leasing dark fiber in 2006 and has
grown to operate its own fiber network as the needs of its customers have evolved.
Atlantech sought out a WDM system to fully leverage its fiber infrastructure as its
service offerings expanded to include voice traffic and its growing customer base
demanded more bandwidth.
Atlantech’s 300-km Gigabit Ethernet backbone ring connects its three
points of presence in Arlington and Ashburn, VA, and Silver Spring, MD, which
allows the company to offer its services throughout metropolitan Washington D.C.
Atlantech chose the MRV equipment after a competitive review because of its cost
effectiveness and because of features like add-drop multiplexing that allows
Atlantech to launch point-to-point services to its customers. Additionally, the
company is considering offering storage-networking services across the backbone
using the LambdaDriver’s Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities.
MRV worked with its partner Solunet Inc. to deliver the WDM network.
"Atlantech has grown in the face of stiff competition through its ability
to be competitive, and the cost-effectiveness of the LambdaDriver enhances that
ability both in services we offer today, but also in giving us the flexibility to
offer services, like storage networking, that we thought were out of our reach,"
said Eric Van Tol, operations manager for Atlantech Online, Inc. "We’ve
maintained profitability since day one by being able to offer advanced services
through our upgradeable network, and we are optimistic that with the MRV gear in
place, we will continue to do so."
"Atlantech is like many of our carrier customers who are looking to offer
new services for revenue growth and realizing that network flexibility and
performance are crucial to this effort," said Noam Lotan, MRV president and
CEO. "These are architectural traits of the LambdaDriver, not add ons, which
makes the system one of the most competitive on the market today."
About the MRV’s LambdaDriver Platforms
MRV’s LambdaDriver WDM platforms provide flexible CWDM and DWDM solutions,
enabling enterprises to build campus-wide backbone networks and service providers
to create new revenue opportunities due to more efficient use of their existing
fiber infrastructure. Three different active chassis (LD400, LD800 and LD1600) and
2 passive chassis (LPD100 and LDP300) with interchangeable modules provide a solution
for any network size and service density. Transparent transport allows support for
all high-speed LAN, WAN or SAN services. The sub-rate TDM technology allows even
more efficient use of the available fiber by aggregating low rate protocols over one
wavelength. The LambdaDriver platforms support both CWDM and DWDM technologies, thus
enabling a cost efficient initial investment in infrastructure with CWDM and a smooth
upgrade path towards full capacity DWDM networks. LambdaDriver platforms are NEBS
certified for use in U.S. carrier central office applications. For more information,
please visit http://www.mrv.com/wdm/prod_ld.php.
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. ("MRV") is a leading provider of network equipment
and services, and optical components. MRV’s networking business provides equipment
used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service providers, and
includes switches, routers, physical layer products and out-of-band management products
as well as specialized networking products for aerospace, defense and other applications
including voice and cellular communication. MRV’s optical components business
provides optical communications components for metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the-Premises
applications, through its wholly owned subsidiary SourcePhotonics, Inc. MRV markets and
sells its products worldwide through a variety of channels, including a dedicated direct
sales force, manufacturers’ representatives, value-added-resellers, distributors
and systems integrators. MRV also has operations in Europe that provide network system
design, integration and distribution services that include products manufactured by
third-party vendors, as well as internally developed and manufactured products.
Publicly traded since 1992, MRV is listed on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol
MRVC. For more information about MRV and its products, please call (818) 773-0900 or
visit our websites at www.mrv.com and
www.sourcephotonics.com.
About Atlantech Online
Atlantech Online, founded in 1995, is a business-to-business Telephone and Internet
Service Provider. Headquartered in Silver Spring, MD, the company provides telephone
service, Internet connectivity services (T1, DS3, Fiber and DSL), web site hosting,
dedicated and managed server hosting and collocation services. Information about
Atlantech Online, Inc. can be found at
www.atlantech.net or by contacting the company
directly at 800-256-1612.
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