The City of Danville, Virginia is using World Wide Packets’ “LightningEdge” platform to provide fiber access to some 100 local government, public school and utility locations throughout the city. The network architecture employs World Wide Packets’ Active Ethernet technology. The current deployment is capable of growing into a network to ultimately serve over 50,000 residents and 8,000 businesses. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.worldwidepackets.com
- In January 2004, World Wide Packets, a start-up based in Spokane, Washington raised $15.7 million in the first closing of its third round of funding for its Ethernet-based last mile access solutions.
- World Wide Packets features a Layer 2 Ethernet-to-the-Subscriber architecture that runs over either copper or active fiber connections. The company’s product line spans central office aggregation boxes, neighborhood concentrators and customer premise equipment, supporting IP voice, video and data services. World Wide Packets also provides a network management system with extensive provisioning capabilities. Because it leverages a Layer 2 Ethernet network architecture, the company said its network architecture more easily accommodates wholesale service models whereby multiple ISPs, voice carriers or video providers share the same network.