Service Provider Standardizes on MRV LambdaDriver Multiplexing Technology
for all Future 10 Gigabit DWDM Networks
CHATSWORTH, Calif., April 25,
2006/PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Nasdaq: MRVC), a leading provider of products and
services for out-of-band networking, WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet,
fiber optic components, 10GE and other service aware networking products, today
announced that
Limelight Networks, Inc., (Tempe, AZ) has chosen
MRV’s LambdaDriver for
its newly built, 10 Gigabit Ethernet Silicon Valley network supporting
content delivery services from its Silicon Valley location.
Limelight Networks’ industry-leading content delivery network ensures
extremely fast global Internet delivery of rich, high-bandwidth media such
as video, music, games and downloads, to audiences of any size with
massively provisioned, globally located, content distribution centers.
Limelight has virtualized its Silicon Valley content delivery location
with a fiber optic ring that links multiple data centers throughout the
region as an ultra-scalable delivery location not bound by the power,
space or networking constraints of any individual data center.
The high-speed data network encompassing San Jose, San Francisco and
Oakland is supported by the
MRV LambdaDriver dense wave division
multiplexing (DWDM) fiber optic transport system fitted with the company’s
10 Gbps transponders. Limelight is currently deploying a 60 Gbps ring
around the region, with the ability to spontaneously expand the network to
800 Gbps without the need for additional dark fiber. In addition,
Limelight has standardized on
MRV LambdaDriver systems for all new 10 Gbps
DWDM networks domestically and internationally.
“Growing consumer demand for multimedia content and the continued creation
of new and innovative content are driving the popularity of our CDN
service platform – driving our need for high performance networking with
ultra-scalable capacity,” said Nathan Raciborski, CTO, Limelight Networks.
“We started using MRV, with our early CWDM networks. They’ve proven
themselves – so we’re expanding our capacity utilizing their
cost-effective and high-performance 10 Gigabit DWDM solution
“The LambdaDriver platform offers the performance, flexibility and
cost-effectiveness for a wide range of service providers that are building
metropolitan networks and the success we have had with Limelight is a
great testimony to that,” said Noam Lotan, MRV President and CEO.
As new technologies and equipment evolve and abound, businesses and
service providers must respond to growing traffic and service requirements
while reducing power consumption, size and overall cost. MRV’s
LambdaDriver modular series delivers maximized bandwidth and service
flexibility of networks.
The LambdaDriver can operate as a SONET/SDH transport device, CWDM or DWDM
fiber optic transport device. It has an inclusive set of access interfaces
that include all data-centric protocols, enabling enterprises and service
providers to mix protocols ranging from 8 Mbps to 10 Gigabit Ethernet,
including SONET/SDH, Ethernet, video (SDI/ASI), voice (E1/T1) and storage
(SAN) applications. The
LambdaDriver series chassis include three chassis,
the four-slot
LD 400, the eight-slot
LD 800 and the
16-slot LD 1600. All LambdaDriver systems are 19-inch rack mountable chassis with a modular
architecture and hot-swappable modules.
About Limelight Networks
Limelight Networks is the high performance content delivery network for
digital media. Limelight’s advanced network was built from the ground up
to support scalable delivery of live and on-demand video, music and games
to large global audiences. The Limelight network is optimized to deliver
high-bandwidth media objects and large content libraries to audiences of
any size via the Internet. As the content delivery network of choice for
more than 400 of the world’s top media companies, Limelight customers
include Akimbo, ABC Radio Networks, Belo Interactive, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com,
DreamWorks, LLC, IFILM, Live365, Marimba, MSNBC.com, NC Interactive, NPR,
Real Networks Rhapsody, Radio Free Virgin, Valve Software e, and Xbox
Live. For more information, visit:
http://www.llnw.com
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. (“MRV”) is a leading provider of network
equipment and services, and optical components. MRV’s networking business
provides equipment used by commercial customers, governments and
telecommunications service providers, and includes switches, routers,
physical layer products and out-of-band management products as well as
specialized networking products for aerospace, defense and other
applications including voice and cellular communication. MRV’s optical
components business provides optical communications components for
metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the-Premises applications, through its
wholly owned subsidiary LuminentOIC, Inc. MRV markets and sells its
products worldwide through a variety of channels, including a dedicated
direct sales force, manufacturers' representatives, value-added-resellers,
distributors and systems integrators. MRV also has operations in Europe
that provide network system design, integration and distribution services
that include products manufactured by third-party vendors, as well as
internally developed and manufactured products. Publicly traded since
1992, MRV is listed on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol MRVC.
For more information about MRV and its products, please call (818)
773-0900 or visit our websites at
www.mrv.com and
www.luminentoic.com.
MRV Media Relations
MRV Communications, Inc.
David Rodewald
(805) 494-9508
pr@mrv.com
Limelight Networks Media Relations
Wynne Ahern
Communication Strategies
510-663-3213
wynne@commstrat.net
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