Larscom and VINA Technologies completed their previously announced merger. The company targets enterprise WAN access solutions. The merged company will retain the “Larscom” name and its NASDAQ symbol and will relocate from Milpitas, CA to VINA Technologies’ headquarters in Newark, CA at some time in the future.
- In May 2003, Larscom introduced a next generation SONET multi-service access platform supporting the new Generic Framing Procedure (GFP)-based Ethernet over SONET (EoS) standards – including both Low- (VT 1.5) and High- (STS-1) order Virtual Concatenation (VCAT). Larscom’s new Orion 7400 platform is designed to economize the extension of metro rings to customers located in lower density areas or multi-tenant buildings while remaining interoperable with the carrier’s existing SONET infrastructure including optical add/drop multiplexers (OADM) and management systems (OSS). The Orion 7400, which serves as customer location equipment (CLE) or as an adjunct to a legacy SONET ADM, can deliver a range of services, including 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, T1 and T3. Initially, the network interface can be OC-3/OC-3c (OC-12/OC-12/c, or STS-1 will also be available before the end of the year) to SONET metro or regional rings. List pricing is expected to be under $5,000.