MAHWAH, N.J. and MUNICH, Germany, Dec. 9, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) --
- Premier carrier serving New York enterprises and service
providers now offering a managed wavelength service
with ADVA's FSP 3000 -- first large deployment for
top financial institution completed
ADVA Optical Networking (FSE:ADV), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today announced Con Edison Communications (CEC) as a new carrier customer for its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 3000. One of CEC's offerings is a managed wavelength service, the PowerWave Wavelength Service. The service addresses the access and capacity constraints within the New York metro area. ADVA's FSP 3000 not only enables CEC to relieve capacity constraints but also offers premium storage transport capabilities.
A subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. (CEI), which is also the parent company of the large electric and gas utility Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., CEC has built an extensive fiber network of more than 380 route miles utilizing primarily Con Edison of N.Y.'s conduits. The network interconnects over 100 commercial buildings and numerous major carrier points-of-presence (POPs) and central offices (COs) in New York City. The network design enables CEC to eliminate single points of failure and offer a highly unique and competitive service to its customers in the financial services, healthcare, media and entertainment, and telecommunications sectors. CEC extensively tested ADVA's FSP 3000 product for network interoperability up to speeds of 10Gbit/s, and has certified it now to support the PowerWave Wavelength Service.
"We are extremely pleased to implement ADVA's FSP 3000 as a technology and transport solution behind our PowerWave Wavelength Service," said Peter Rust, president and CEO of CEC. "The system offers an unparalleled combination of strong feature sets, ease of deployment, and high value proposition with low initial capital expenditure and ongoing operating expense requirements."
CEC already completed a first installation of ADVA's FSP 3000 as the PowerWave Wavelength Service for one of the top financial institutions in New York City. The deployment of two 3-node rings currently transports Gigabit Ethernet and OC-12 applications across approximately 140 and 170 kilometers.
Brian P. McCann, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at ADVA, commented, "CEC has quietly amassed a sizable customer base in the New York metro area over the past few years because of its significant fiber resources utilizing some of the most advanced and reliable network technology. They are exploiting the growing trend amongst enterprises to outsource storage and Ethernet services, in what is the world's largest metro area of data-intensive enterprises and one of ADVA's key target markets."
The FSP 3000 employs parallel use of DWDM and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) technology to enable all protocols between 8Mbit/s and 10Gbit/s and up to 256 applications to be transported over one single fiber pair. The system's design supports point-to-point, linear add/drop, ring, and meshed network topologies of up to 10 nodes across distances up to 500 kilometers without regeneration. More information about the FSP 3000 and key applications can be found on ADVA's web site, www.advaoptical.com.
ABOUT CON EDISON COMMUNICATIONS
Con Edison Communications (CEC) (www.electricfiber.com), a subsidiaryof Consolidated Edison Inc., offers a comprehensive range of data andvoice transport products and services designed to enhance theperformance of its customers' networks. CEC builds and operates itsown fiber optic network providing managed data transport services,custom networks, local and long distance voice services and Internetservices.
CEC serves local and long-distance carriers, Fortune 1000corporations, small and medium businesses, and Internet, cable,wireless and video companies. Operations commenced in 1999. Sincethen, CEC's New York City metro area network continues to grow andcurrently interconnects over 100 commercial buildings, all majorcarrier Points-of-Presence (POPs) and many of the Verizon CentralOffices in New York City.
Its parent company, Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE:ED), is one ofthe nation's largest investor-owned energy companies, with $9 billionin annual revenues and $20 billion in assets.
ABOUT ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING
ADVA Optical Networking is a leading global provider of opticalnetworking solutions for rapid and cost-effective provisioning ofhigh-speed data, storage, voice, and video services in themetropolitan area. ADVA's carrier-class portfolio is comprised of theFiber Service Platform family of products -- explicitly designed toensure the lowest total cost of ownership. ADVA's solutions have beendeployed at over 80 carriers and service providers (including PTTs,RBOCs, LECs, and IXCs) and more than 500 enterprises worldwide.ADVA's products are sold through an international network ofblue-chip distribution partners in addition to its own direct salesforce. Further information about ADVA Optical Networking:www.advaoptical.com.
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