The LambdaDriver wave-division multiplexing (WDM) system from MRV COMMUNICATIONS has been picked by Maryland-based regional carrier Atlantech Online for its 300-kilometer backbone network that delivers services to customers in the Washington, D.C. area.

 

Atlantech’s 300-km Gigabit Ethernet backbone ring connects its three points of presence in Arlington and Ashburn VA, and Silver Spring MD. This allows the company to offer its services throughout metropolitan Washington, D.C.

 

MRV equipments’ cost effectiveness and features like add-drop multiplexing allows Atlantech to launch point-to-point services to its customers. Also, Atlantech 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 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.”

 

MRV's LambdaDriver WDM platforms provide flexible CWDM and DWDM solutions that help enterprises to build campus-wide backbone networks and service providers to efficiently use their existing fiber infrastructure creating new revenue opportunities.

 

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 enabling a cost efficient initial investment in infrastructure with CWDM and a smooth upgrade path towards full capacity DWDM networks.

 

MRV Communications (News - Alert), Inc. (“MRV”) is a provider of network equipment and services, and optical components. Its 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.

 

Atlantech Online, founded in 1995, is a business-to-business Telephone and Internet Service Provider. The company provides telephone service, Internet connectivity services (T1, DS3, Fiber and DSL), web site hosting, dedicated and managed server hosting and collocation services.