Aura Networks to Deliver Last-Mile Optical Ethernet Solution to Service Providers - Brief Article

Fiber Optics Business, Dec 15, 2000

Aura Networks announced a major strategic initiative to deliver superior, metro access optical Ethernet solutions to service providers. Aura also announced that it has received $16 million in growth funding from Sierra Ventures to support this initiative. Sierra is a private, venture capital firm based in California, focusing on pre-public communications, software, and Internet infrastructure companies.

Leveraging its 10-plus years in the electrical-to-optical connectivity market, Aura Networks is harnessing the combined power of Ethernet and fiber optics technology to drive a highly affordable, reliable, and manageable metro access provisioning solution for linking service providers to the customer premise. This advanced technology, called Stealth IP, results in a future-proof family of products providing instant service provisioning, remote test capability, flexible bandwidth management, and unrivalled performance for the last-mile metro access.