The Edge briefs

SONET switch start-up Akara and facilities-based carrier LightWave Communications last week announced the launch of LightWave’s ‘storage over SONET’ managed service offering, which uses Akara’s OUSP SONET multiplexer.

SONET switch start-up Akara and facilities-based carrier LightWave Communications last week announced the launch of LightWave’s storage-over-SONET managed service offering, which uses Akara’s OUSP SONET multiplexer. The companies also announced that Web hosting provider Digex is deploying LightWave’s new service.

LightWave is providing Digex with a managed service offering that maps native Gigabit Ethernet onto LightWave’s SONET ring and transports the data between data centers in Virginia and Maryland using OUSP.

Akara’s OUSP adapts Gigabit Ethernet traffic originating from Digex-owned routers onto a SONET OC-12 interface for transport through LightWave’s network.

LightWave provides metropolitan optical access services that interconnect carrier hotels, data centers and Verizon central offices within the Washington, D.C., to New York corridor. www.akara.com; www.lightwavecom.com

Native Networks, a vendor of metropolitan Ethernet systems for optical access networks, last week announced the appointment of Rami Hadar as CEO. Hadar was co-founder and executive vice president of marketing and business development of Ensemble Communications, a wireless broadband access company.

Before founding Ensemble, he was the co-founder and CEO of CTP Systems in Israel. In 1995, CTP was acquired by DSP Communication, which was eventually acquired by Intel. Native’s products, designed for deployment in first-mile metropolitan-access infrastructure, transport and aggregate metropolitan Ethernet packets alongside legacy circuits/TDM services over dark fiber, SONET/SDH infrastructure or dense wave division multiplexing. www.nativenetworks.com