Glimmerglass Powers CVTR

DUBLIN, and HAYWARD, Calif. -- Glimmerglass, provider of intelligent optical switches announced today that the Center for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (CTVR), headquartered at Dublin University, Trinity College, purchased three of its switches to power optical connections within the College’s telecommunications network.

The CTVR team is building a prototype of an intelligent, high capacity network which is significantly more economical than the purely router based networks in use today. Termed “cut-through” paths, the edge nodes detect a high volume of traffic to a common destination and automatically provision a pure optical path through the network to carry large packet flows. Such “cut-through” path provisioning circumvents expensive core routers with significantly improved performance for both applications and networks.

“We needed an affordable switch that would also give us a great deal of control at lower network layers,” said Professor Donal O’Mahony, director of Trinity’s Telecommunication Center. “Glimmerglass gave us both the switching speed and the control we needed. The Glimmerglass support team was superb.”

“The leading initiatives throughout the world for developing advanced high capacity networks employ Glimmerglass switches at the core,” said Robert Lundy, CEO of Glimmerglass. “While our “workhorse” products manage and protect live commercial networks today, they are also the platform for the intelligent networks of tomorrow.”

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