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MRV COMMUNICATIONS has announced that FiberLight, LLC has selected its OptiSwitch Carrier Ethernet access platforms as the foundation for its Carrier Ethernet fiber optic access network that delivers optical wholesale and business Ethernet services to customers in 20 metropolitan areas in the U.S. MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of optical communication and IT infrastructure management solutions to service providers and enterprises around the world.

To meet its rapidly growing demand for inter-connecting businesses and delivering high-speed IP data in metro areas, FiberLight added the MRV metro Ethernet equipment to its optical network to provide the capacity and flexibility demanded by large enterprise and government agency customers. FiberLight worked with MRV to install OptiSwitch 900 (OS 900) Ethernet demarcation service units and OptiSwitch 9000 (OS 9000) metro Ethernet aggregation service units to enhance its LightSource Ethernet service offerings.

The new networks allow FiberLight customers to dynamically control their bandwidth without a long lead-time and through their own network management capabilities. For example, a customer could reapportion part of a 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) circuit to offer 100 Mbps of bandwidth to a new office by just making the change remotely and avoid delays on new service delivery. Using the OS900 at the demarcation point for wholesale and business Ethernet services, FiberLight is also able to support end-to-end Ethernet service visibility, service level agreement (SLA) monitoring and Ethernet virtual circuit loopbacks for non-intrusive fault analysis.

Based in Atlanta, FiberLight is known as one of the nation's leading providers of mission-critical, high-performance fiber-optic network solutions. FiberLight operates an extensive fiber optic network in 20 markets for a diverse customer base that includes local and long distance telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers, municipalities, utilities, Fortune 500 enterprises, school systems, local, city, and federal government entities. FiberLight also offers "LightSource," dark and lit fiber capacity for customers who have unique bandwidth requirements.

"With its forward-looking nature, state-of-the-art equipment and robust infrastructure, FiberLight has positioned itself well to meet the demand for bandwidth and IP-connectivity that delivers business continuity, network security and streamlined IT departments," said Dilip Singh, chief executive officer of MRV. "MRV's OptiSwitch portfolio brings FiberLight MEF-compliant functionality for fully interoperable wholesale and Ethernet business services. MRV is on the cusp of where this market is going and we look forward to a long relationship of enabling FiberLight's growing marketplace presence."

"The future of broadband technology is all about convergence, with the data side and the optical transport side colliding out of necessity. Companies are now realizing the savings value of migrating from legacy copper-based networks to fiber networks because companies can increase the bandwidth substantially without increasing the overall cost," said Ben Edmond, FiberLight's EVP of Sales & Marketing. "MRV's equipment is designed to offer optical transport technology that meets our mission critical, high performance focus, delivering low latency and optimal performance management tools to add value to our clients by enabling a higher level of SLAs and quality of service."