Coriant
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| Telecommunications | |
| Industry | Telecom |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Headquarters | Munich and Naperville, Germany and USA |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
Shaygan Kheradpir (CEO and Chairman) Pat DiPietro (Vice-chairman) |
| Products | Intelligent Network Management,Integrated Optical Planning Solutions,Packet Optical Transport Solutions, MSPP Solutions, Edge Routing Solutions, Cross-Connect/TDM Solutions, Optical LAN & Broadband Access |
| Revenue | unknown |
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Number of employees | about 3000 |
| Parent | Marlin Equity Partners |
| Website | www.coriant.com/ |
Coriant was formed as an independent company in 2013. The technology comes from - Siemens Optical Networks (NSN ON), Tellabs, and Sycamore Networks.
History
The launch of the company under the name Coriant was announced for the OFC/NFOEC in March 2013.[1] On May 6, 2013 Coriant became independent from Nokia Siemens Networks under the ownership of Marlin Equity Partners.[2]
Meanwhile, the expected merge with Sycamore (acquired by Marlin Equity in January 2013 and headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts), which will operate as Coriant America Inc., was announced.[3]
Recently, Marlin Equity announced the plan to merge Coriant and Tellabs (acquired by Marlin Equity in December 2013 Naperville, Illinois), which will operate as Coriant.[4]
Products
The enterprise is selling hardware and software for optical transmission in the Backbone network of voice, data and mobile networks. These are mainly the products hiT 7300 for optical multiplexing DWDM over fiber optic cables, hiT 7100 for electrical cross connection of optical paths and hiT 70xx for "multi service provisioning". Software products for management and planning are TNMS (network management) and Transnet/Transconnect (network planning).
History
Coriant originates from the Transmission Technology department of Siemens based in Munich, Germany, (Übertragungstechnik - ÜT as it was called in the 1990s). In those days the technology evolved from Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) to Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) in the STM-4 / STM-16 (2.5 Gbit/s) level.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s DWDM emerged to allow for even higher transmission capacity (in the terabit per second region). This technology is also named optical transport network (OTN), where a set of multiplex and encapsulation hierarchies is standardized.