Optical transport player is shutting down
2:10 PM –- From The Philter's Fat Lady file, Allen, Texas-based White Rock Networks Inc. is about to shut its doors as the company searches for a buyer. Here's an email sent around this morning by WRN management:
The Board of White Rock Networks decided today to furlough all but a skeleton staff of its U.S. employee team and suspend virtually all operations while it waits to see if its search for an acquirer can be quickly concluded. If not, White Rock will proceed to sell its key assets and wind the company down permanently.
"It gives me and our team no pleasure whatsoever to reach this juncture after nearly seven years of working hard to establish White Rock as one of the long term successful participants in the Metro Optical systems market place," said Lonnie Martin, Founder and CEO of White Rock. "Fundamentally, the Telecom Depression, and all of its residue, took too big and too long a toll on younger entrants like us, and at the end of the day we could not look our investors in the eye a sixth time and convince them that millions more in equity would make our future dramatically better."
White Rock's still-unique architectural approach of a lego-block-like optical transport product family established new bars for price/performance, compactness, low power consumption, and ease of use. Its products are now deployed in the networks of more than 130 U.S.-based ILECs, CLECs, CATVs, wireless, and institutional customers.
Limited Tier 1 TAC support will be provided between the hours of 9A and 5P CDT Monday through Friday excluding holidays until further notice. Our TAC number is 866-WHT-ROCK (866-948-7625).
— Phil Harvey, News Editor, Light Reading
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