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Science and Technology
Wed, January 7, 2009 Mesquite Independent School District Expands Network with Demarcation, Aggregation Solution from MRV
CHATSWORTH, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--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 the Mesquite Independent School District has chosen its OptiSwitch® 304 optical termination units to cost-effectively manage its network expansion and migration away from expensive leased fiber-optic network services.
The Mesquite Independent School District (MISD) is comprised of 31 elementary schools, nine support facilities, eight middle schools and five high schools, with more than 30,000 students and 3,000 faculty and staff at the 53 facilities. Its network is comprised of two 30-mile arches of 144-count fiber linking to an east and a west hub. The district has two sets of single-strand MRV optics to connect each hub with separate directional runs, forming an asymmetric bandwidth ring.
As the MISD expanded and added sites, it needed to expand its network to reach them, which meant either laying its own fiber or leasing expensive circuits from carriers. With the network management needs and the impending necessity to grow its network to handle converged, bandwidth-intensive services for video in the classroom and other forms of interactive learning, the district opted to implement its own fiber network with the OS304, acting as a media converter between the fiber-optic based MAN and the copper-based LAN.
"The Mesquite Independent School District encountered a situation in which it needed to grow its network but did not have the infrastructure in place to do so without adding optics or adding expensive leased fibers," said Noam Lotan, president and CEO of MRV Communications. "The OS304 optical termination unit provides the perfect combination of digital diagnostics and other network management features to integrate seamlessly into existing network environments."
"Every day, we read the digital diagnostics on more than 240 optics, measuring transmit-receive for each one, thereby maintaining the visibility to see the long-term effects of restored fiber after a network problem," said Clay Cottles, technical services department manager for the Mesquite Independent School District. "The OptiSwitch units along with the company's consistent ability to guide us to the correct answers gave us the confidence we needed to go forward with this implementation."
About OptiSwitch
The OptiSwitch family consists of five enterprise-class chassis and two telco-optimized chassis that can host more than 90 types of modules for a wide range of networking applications. The OptiSwitch family's unique modular architecture offers a wire-speed, non-blocking switching solution designed for fiber-optic interfaces, VDSL connectivity, optical wireless links and TDM voice over Ethernet. The systems are ideal for large enterprises and carriers (broadband service providers) that offer communications services and are looking for fast ROI and a scaleable solution design. OptiSwitch solutions provide flexible options that enable building layer-two transport networks that maintain the security, QoS and traffic policing rules implemented at the higher layers.
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 SourcePhotonics, 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.sourcephotonics.com ].
