Electric Lightwave (ELI) has deployed White Rock’s OC-192 SONET ADM for OC-192c carrier to carrier service delivery. White Rock’s VLX2020 provides SONET performance monitoring, a customer demarcation point and remote provisioning and loopback testing functions. It offers auto-provisioning features and measures two rack units (3.5 inches) in height, about one-fifth the space or less of other vendors’ SONET equipment. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- In December 2002, White Rock Networks announce the closing of $42 million in fourth-round venture funding for its next-generation optical transport systems for the local metro transport market. White Rock is focused on the Multi-service Provision Platform (MSPP) market as well next-generation SONET. White Rock has taken a unique approach to the MSPP problem by breaking it into pieces – modular, stackable product elements. White Rock also features a software-based control plane that transforms their modular “building-blocks” into a single network element. White Rock Networks has raised $144 million since its inception in 1999.
- In June 2002, Citizens Communications acquired Electric Lightwave, a facilities-based carrier headquartered in Vancouver, Washington.
