Boca Photonics Demonstrates Their Optical Channel Auto-discovery Feature and wins praise from potential customers

Auto-discovery of optical network topology and optical channel connectivity greatly enhances network operation efficiency

BOCA RATON, FL (PRWEB) December 12, 2001 - Boca Photonics, an optical networking company providing products and services for optimized planning, provisioning and protection of dynamic light-path services, today announced that it has successfully demonstrated an auto-discovery feature, a key addition to their optical control plane solution to a number of potential customers. This capability enables network operators to significantly speed up their installation and commissioning process by automatic detection of network topology and optical channel connectivity of a mesh-based intelligent optical network, significantly lowering associated operating expenses. Potential human error related to manually commissioning of each optical channel in a large and complex network is eliminated. As new nodes and optical links are added to the network, they are immediately detected and made available for service.

An auto-discovery feature greatly enhances an already robust optical control plane solution. Other features include; software configurable ring protection, high-speed pre-planned shared protection switching, fast dynamic service restoration for unplanned failures, and dynamic service provisioning via centralized operator control or customer control via OIF UNI

"For efficient implementation, management, and maintenance of a dynamic optical network, auto-discovery plays a critical role in the network operations environment," says Michael McLaughlin, President and CEO of Boca Photonics. "Using our ServicePlex Controller(tm) optical control plane system with its auto-discovery feature, operators will know exactly what optical resources are available in their network greatly improving response time to changing service demand."

"Optical auto-discovery simplifies a variety of key operations management functions; from network inventory reconciliation to provisioning to fault isolation and recovery." Said Nancee Ruzicka optical analyst at the Yankee Group.

Boca Photonics hopes to get an early jump on the market through quick development of key features to integrate into their optical control plane solution that exploits multi-vendor/multi-technology network topologies.

About Boca Photonics

Boca Photonics, Inc. is a an optical networking company offering a suite of integrated service control products and portfolio of professional services designed to plan, implement, and restore next generation wavelength services for optical network operators and equipment manufacturers. The Company's founders have many years of combined optical networking experience. President and Chief Executive Officer Michael McLaughlin has assembled a world-class team from leading companies such as Siemens, Nortel Networks, and Hitachi. Other team members include: Jose H. Sabat, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer; Thomas E. Hall, Vice President Product Management; and Xiangbo Feng, Ph.D., Vice President Product Development.

In February, the Company announced that it had raised $3 million in venture financed seed funding led by VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, CA (www.vpvp.com) and Alliance Technology Ventures of Atlanta, GA (www.atv.com).

Boca Photonics is based in Boca Raton, FL and has research and development facilities in Atlanta, GA. For more information about Boca Photonics, please visit our Website at www.bocaphotonics.com.

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