Corvis is led by Dr. David Huber, who previously founded Ciena Corp. and developed its 16-channel DWDM platform. Lucent will resell the testing platform along with its DSL access equipment and NetCare installation and customer support professional services. Separately, Turnstone announced a major contract to supply its Copper CrossConnect loop management products to Covad Communications. Financial terms were not disclosed. Turnstone recently disclosed shipment of more than 1,000 of its Copper CrossConnect CX100 platforms to DSL service providers in the first six months of production.
Turnstone is based in Mountain View, California.
Intel is also building major hosting facilities near Dulles airport in Virginia, as well as in Japan and England. AirStar Release 2.0 expands the platform's addressable market by offering support for 39 GHz licensed frequency for the US market and for the 10 GHz Latin American channel plan. Major enhancements also include an increased channel capacity enabling individual subscribers to burst up to 16 Mbps, integration of the modem unit into the hub chassis, and increased port density and capacity of the sector control hardware. Netro's proprietary CellMAC media access protocol, coupled with the product's TDMA and ATM foundation, supports the transmission of voice, IP and Frame Relay traffic. The new release also supports intelligent signaling of voice applications, such as PRI-ISDN and DASS2.