Axiowave rolling in dough

What is its secret? Axiowave has rounded up another $45 million in funding in this less-than-receptive environment for start-ups and venture capital. The three-year-old Marlborough, Mass., company is still secretive on its products – intelligent metro and core backbone systems for carriers designed to maximize wavelength utilization on existing networks. But apparently investors are encouraged with the several trials Axiowave is involved with. Or perhaps it’s the sales savvy of founder Mukesh Chatter that prompts them to pony up. Chatter sold his last start-up, gigabit router maker Nexabit Networks, to Lucent in 1999 for $900 million. Lucent killed the Nexabit product – a.k.a. the TMX 880 MPLS switch – late last year in a product line consolidation. http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0122axiowave.html

What is its secret? Axiowave has rounded up another $45 million in funding in this less-than-receptive environment for start-ups and venture capital. The three-year-old Marlborough, Mass., company is still secretive on its products – intelligent metro and core backbone systems for carriers designed to maximize wavelength utilization on existing networks. But apparently investors are encouraged with the several trials Axiowave is involved with. Or perhaps it’s the sales savvy of founder Mukesh Chatter that prompts them to pony up. Chatter sold his last start-up, gigabit router maker Nexabit Networks, to Lucent in 1999 for $900 million. Lucent killed the Nexabit product – a.k.a. the TMX 880 MPLS switch – late last year in a product line consolidation.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0122axiowave.html

Router vendors claim they have a way to enable service providers to wring stingy profits from IP services and next-gen buildouts in the edge and core. All carriers have to do is buy their equipment! Everything should be so simple! Cisco and Juniper even have pleasing names for these plans, like BLISS and MINT. Suddenly, my mouth is refreshingly tingly, and I can’t stop smiling! And I feel like buying some routers! Now edge router maker Laurel Networks has entered the game with its FirstSTEP program. Only Laurel’s plan is a bit more tangible than the Cisco and Juniper schemes. It is narrower in focus – next-gen multiservice edge buildouts – and includes a couple of testing scenarios to evaluate your buildout from a performance, cost and ROI standpoint. It might even automatically print out a purchase order if you’re lucky…

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0121step.html

In the you-read-it-here-first category, Lucent and Cisco have confirmed their participation in a resale arrangement that will see Lucent selling Cisco packet data gear to mobile wireless operators. Lucent will combine Cisco’s Packet Data Serving Node, Gateway GPRS Support Node and MGX8000 media gateway and ATM aggregation products with its own CDMA base stations and associated gear. Lucent will also install, service and support the Cisco gear, while Cisco will tap Lucent’s installed base of incumbent carrier customers. The Edge broke this story earlier this month. Next on tap: a similar deal with Juniper for wireline applications. Lucent disclosed its intentions to build partnerships in IP/MPLS after killing its TMX 880 MPLS core switch and its SpringTide IP services switch.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0121lucent.html