Atrica, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, announced three additions to its portfolio of carrier optical Ethernet products. Atrica’s Optical Ethernet Systems — including 10 Gigabit Ethernet and integrated WDM — are positioned as an alternative to SONET/SDH-based equipment or RPR architectures. Key features of the Atrica optical Ethernet platform include high port densities in NEBS-compliant chassis, an MPLS architecture capable of supporting large numbers of flows, SLAs, sub-50 millisecond resiliency, integration with circuit switched networks, Ethernet CES for support of TDM traffic, and point and click OAM&P. Atrica’s existing A-8000 chassis scales up to 320 Gbps and is designed for core network deployments. The new products include the A-4100 optical Ethernet aggregation switch and the A-2140 edge switch. The A-4100, which is designed for small POP environments, is an eight-slot chassis that scales up to 80 Gbps. It supports MPLS over Gigabit and 10 GigE links. The smaller, A-2140 optical Ethernet Edge switch is a customer premise device supporting a variety of 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Circuit Emulation Services (CES) of T1/E1, OC-3/STM-1 ports.
Atrica expects to ship over 50,000 optical Ethernet ports in Q2 2003. The company said over ten carrier worldwide are either testing or deploying its systems. Announced customers include: France Telecom, Al-Pi Telecomunicacions of Spain and Hokkaido Telecom Network in Japan.
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- In February 2002, Atrica closed $75 million in third round venture funding for its optical Ethernet platforms. Total equity funding in the company now stands at over $117 million. Strategic investors include SBC Communications, BellSouth, France Telecom, Telia, Telecom Italia, Bezeq, 3Com, St. Paul Venture Capital JK&B Capital, Investor Growth Capital, Saturn Venture Partners (an affiliated fund of Telecom Italia), Gemini Israel Funds L.P. Limited, Lehman Brothers, Part’com, Challenge Fund, Young Associates, Triton Ventures, CDIB and Hotung.
