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Introduction to PhotonEx: Agenda Objectives & Expectations PhotonEx – Who We Are & What We Stand For Deep Experience & Strategic Leadership Network Evolution Paths Issues & Solutions: Bandwidth & Services – changing network topologies PhotonEx Revolutionary Solution

Who is … “ The Ultrafast Optical Networking Company ” Efficient High-Capacity Transmission Cost-per-bit, Footprint Ultra-Fast, Ultra-Long-Haul Bandwidth Direct Path to “Optical Internet” A World Class Team, laying the tracks for the All-Optical Packet Network

PhotonEx Corporation Incorporated September 1999 $8M first round, November 1999 Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners 90 Employees, growing rapidly 33,000 sq.ft. office/lab in Bedford, MA

Who is … “ The Ultrafast Optical Networking Company ” Experienced players Lucent MCI WorldCom Nortel MIT–Lincoln Lab Bay Networks Ciena Wellfleet Cascade more than 700 years of combined industry experience over 100 patents, 300 published papers Industry leadership in optical & data networking: ultra high speed optical transport technology advanced optical networking carrier products industry leading, carrier-grade IP router products

Who is … Kristin Rauschenbach, Ph.D. – Chief Executive Officer Former Member MIT Lincoln Lab Steering Committee and Assoc. Division Head of Information and Communications Systems Division Created & led the MIT Lincoln Labs Advanced Networks Group 6 patents & 45 published papers in optical networking Katie Hall, Ph.D. – Chief Technical Officer Former Group Leader of the Advanced Networks Group Pioneering research in high-speed, long-reach optics technology 8 patents & 100 published papers in high-speed optics Nanying Yin, Ph.D. – Exec. Vice President, Product Development Former Director of the Core Router Group at Nortel Networks Initiated & led development of Nortel Carrier Core Router – Versalar 25000 ® 20 patents & 20 published papers in data networking Founding the company:

PhotonEx Development Team Hardware & Test RF Electronics Network Management Software Optics Physical Design A world-class team, 90 strong, and growing… Industry Leaders Recognized Pioneers 11 PhDs Product design experience Line Card-Chassis Novel Optical Circuit Pack Realization “ Carrier-Class” System Realization Complex Board Design Board and System-level Diag and Test >25 Past Product Developments Unique design expertise Space-qualified System design & “Field” Network Management Architectures for Carriers Carrier operations experience GUI Development Embedded Operating Systems Routers/Switches SONET IP Protocols

PhotonEx Advisors & External Directors Director, Hassan Ahmed President & CEO, Sonus Networks former Exec. VP/GM, Ascend Director, Paul Severino Former President & CEO, Wellfleet/Bay Chairman, NetCentric Director, Tim Barrows General Partner, Matrix VP Director, Jeff McCarthy General Partner, North Bridge VP Advisor, Cheng Wu CEO, Founder, ArrowPoint Advisor, Steve Finn Former CEO, Founder, Bytex Advisor, Gary Vacon CEO, Founder, NetICs Advisor, Hermann Haus Institute Professor, MIT Advisor, Erich Ippen Professor, MIT, President OSA

PhotonEx™ Evolution of Backbone Network Equipment Optical Switch Mesh Optical Packet Switching Best-in-Class Capacity & Distance Efficient: Cost and Footprint Point & Click Provisioning Beta: Aug. 2001, 1.6Tb/s PhotonExpress SONET PhotonExpress Point to Point Fast Provisioning Distributed Restoration All-Optical Packet Network Real-time Provisioning Novel Services SONET Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Photon Flex Photon Flex Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP

PhotonExpress™ High Level Architecture Service & Network Management Software UltraFast Express Trunk™ Interface Optical Mux / Demux Low Speed Interfaces OC48 OC48c OC192 OC192c 10GbE 1.6 Tb/sec

PhotonExpress™ High Level Architecture Optical Packet Processor UltraFast Express Trunk™ Interface Optical Mux / Demux Low Speed Interfaces OC48 OC48c OC192 OC192c 10GbE 1.6 Tb/sec Service & Network Management Software

PhotonFlex™ High Level Architecture Optical Packet Switch Service & Network Management Software Optical Mux / Demux Optical Mux / Demux Optical Mux / Demux Optical Mux / Demux

PhotonExpress™ Multiple Upgrade Options for your Network Enabling the “Data Aware” Backbone PhotonExpress™ 40 Gb/sec per channel 1.6 Tb/sec per fiber (C-Band) 80 + Gb/sec per channel 3.2 Tb/sec per fiber (C+L Bands) Optical Packet Processing & Switching Turning up the Line Speed Squeezing more Capacity into the Fiber Laying tracks for the “All Optical Packet Network”

Regional UltraPOP Ultra long haul Ultra high capacity Ultra high capacity cross-connect Simplified, seamless network management Future: Packet provisioning Framework for the Internet Backbone --Today How to scale network capacity and provide new services? In the Future

Backbone Optical Networking Evolution: Near Term – Point-to-Point Best-in-Class channel speeds, capacity, & reach 50%+ space savings over traditional DWDM Flexible, economic add/drop for manageable networking Rapid service turn-up via simple point & click provisioning Foundation for the All-Optical Packet Network 40 + Gb/sec Channel Speed 1.6 + Tb/sec Fiber Capacity Multi-megameter Reach Low Speed Interfaces: OC-48, OC48c, OC-192, OC-192c, 10 GbE Core Routers & SONET ADMs Core Routers & SONET ADMs PhotonExpress™ PhotonExpress™ SONET ADM SONET ADM

PhotonEx PhotonExpress™ Capabilities Delivering on the needs Ultrafast, long-reach single channel bit rates “ Express Trunking” at 40 Gb/s channel rates Multi-wavelength capable – for multi-terabit scalability Cost-effective, multi-megameter reach for UltraPOP interconnect Backbone network optimization World class spectral efficiency for multi-terabit transport IP-Optimized™ – for maximum network efficiency built to capitalize on the characteristics of IP traffic targeted at long-haul WAN solution across UltraPOPs Networking flexibility: mesh & add/drop topologies combined with ultra-long reach Seamless network management Service & transport network operations, maintenance & provisioning Self-provisioning for instant network bandwidth allocation

Meeting the Bandwidth Challenge Building the Scaleable Backbone * Source – Ryan  Hankin  Kent, Jan-2000 12x increase * PhotonEx– PhotonExpress™ PhotonEx– IP Optimized™ Traditional DWDM

Efficient Solutions: Footprint Multi-terabit solutions in a much smaller footprint DWDM Terminal (1.6 Tbps – with transponders) PhotonExpress™ Solution (1.6 Tbps) VS. ~50% Footprint Savings over Traditional DWDM approaches 1.6 Tb/s Footprint

Efficient Solutions: Bandwidth Best-in-Class Transport Efficiency (Bandwidth, Reach & Footprint) 0 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Km-Gbps per Equipment Rack PhotonEx– PhotonExpress™ >5X Transport Efficiency Gain PhotonEx– IP Optimized™ Traditional DWDM

The PhotonExpress™ Advantage The Values of Spectral Efficiency – Service Revenue Opportunities PhotonExpress SONET PhotonExpress SONET Alternative Long-Haul DWDM SONET Alternative Long-Haul DWDM SONET up to 3.2 Tbps per fiber @ 3000 km up to 1.2 Tbps per fiber @ 3000 km Increased Service Opportunities & Fiber Savings Services Opportunity Savings: up to $64M per month at $50K/month per OC48 service for a single fiber pair carrying 3.2 Tbps Fiber Savings: up to $50M capital installation for a 2,500 km route, at $60K per mile full deployment cost $ $ VS.

The PhotonExpress™ Advantage The Values of Spectral Efficiency – Core Network Scalability PhotonExpress 10 Tbps Optical Cross-Connect 250 x 250 ports 10 Tbps Optical Switch at 40Gbps per channel Enabling scalability for emerging optical cross-connect technologies Backbone running at 40Gbps v. 10Gbps reduces the optical cross-connect fabric required by a factor of 4 or 16:1. PhotonExpress 1000 x 1000 ports 10 Tbps Optical Switch at 10Gbps per channel 40G 40G 10 Tbps Optical Cross-Connect Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 10G 10G Alternative Long-Haul DWDM Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 10G 10G Alternative Long-Haul DWDM Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 10G 10G Alternative Long-Haul DWDM Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 10G 10G Alternative Long-Haul DWDM

Building Real Optical Networks Can OXC Devices Keep Pace with DWDM Channel Counts? 20 Tb/sec Optical Office: 6 OXC, ~18 racks, 2400 fibers 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 32  per connection 512x512 Optical Cross-Connect 512x512 Optical Cross-Connect 512x512 Optical Cross-Connect 512x512 Optical Cross-Connect 512x512 Optical Cross-Connect 512x512 Optical Cross-Connect 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM 160  Alternative Long-Haul DWDM

The PhotonExpress™ Advantage Values of Spectral Efficiency – Core Network Scalability 40  40  40  40  40  40  40G 40  40  40  40  40  40  512x512 Optical Cross-Connect 20 Tb/sec Optical Office: 1 OXC, ~ 3 racks, 480 fibers PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps PhotonExpress 1.6 Tbps

Network Management Features Expected Features: “ Point&Click” provisioning & management TL1 Alarms & CLI Web & Java Enabled CORBA IDL to OSS Full configuration, fault, accounting, performance & security management Advanced Features: Platform portability & Action-oriented atomics (Enterprise Java Beans) Off-line network planning with direct downloadable deployment Meta-data information model

The PhotonExpress™ Advantage Enabling economical, flexible, high-density networking Traditional WDM 2 Tb/s 100 Gb/s PhotonEx 2 Tb/s 100 Gb/s X3 Long-Haul UltraFast Savings: up to 3:1

Future Competitive Landscape Ultra High Capacity & Ultra Long-Haul DWDM (2001) 1600/ 3200 1600 800 1600 3200 1120 tbd 800 1600 1020 Overall Fiber Capacity (C & L: Gbps) Ultra High-Speed & Ultra Long-Haul Competitors Marketplace 10 / 40 / 80 600 800 Nortel 10 600 400 Pirelli (Cisco) 40 / 80 2500 + 1600 PhotonEx 10 / 40 500 800 Lucent 10 / 40 1000 800 Alcatel 10 3400 560 Qtera (Nortel) 10 2500 400 OptiMight 2.5 3200 400 Corvis 10 5000 800 Ciena 20 1000 1020 Algety Channel Rate (Gb/sec) Reach (Km) C-Band Capacity (Gbps) Competitor

The PhotonExpress™ Difference The Solution for Backbone Network Optimization Long-Haul Transport Efficiency: >5X improvement multi-terabit capacity and multi-megameter reach in a compact footprint Cost-Effective: up to 67% savings ultra-long haul reach without intra-path O-E-O regeneration economy of high bit rate interfaces, combined with DWDM Space Efficiency: ~50% savings interconnect density improvements of ~2:1 over traditional DWDM Ease of Operation: service & transport network operation, maintenance & provisioning integrated network planning, deployment & management self-provisioning – instant bandwidth allocation on demand

Backbone Optical Networking Evolution: Intermediate Term – Optical Switch Mesh Distributed Restoration SONET SONET But is this enough to scale networks to the future service & capacity demands? Improved Network Provisioning Built on circuit-switching model Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP

Backbone Optical Networking Evolution: Future – Optical Packet Switching Dynamic Network Provisioning Customer-Level Granularity & QOS Expanded Bandwidth Services Built on packet-switched model Backbone IP networking (at 40 + Gb/sec channel rates) Real Time Restoration PhotonEx Ultra Switch PhotonEx Ultra Switch Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP vs. D W D M D W D M Optical Packet Channel Optical Packet Channel “ Packets Love Big Pipes”

Enabling the Optical Packet Network Layer 2/3 Switching & Restoration Long-Haul Transport & Optical Packet Switching (40 + Gbps) Layer 3 Routing & Switching Optical Packet Networking Layer 1 Protection (network redundancy) >1T Optical Routing/Switching (OC12-OC192) WAN Access (T1-OC12) DWDM & SONET Transport (OC48-OC192) Remote Access Internet, VPN Optical Edge Flow Aggregation Distribution WAN Backbone Mesh RAS Packet Processing Capacity Source: Adapted from Tenor Networks 400G 40G 4G

The PhotonExpress™ Advantage Initial Cost Analysis Parameters Hub Node A Hub Node C Hub Node B A/D X 1 A/D X 2 A/D X 3 A/D X 4 A/D X 5 3 Hub Nodes (80% traffic drop) 6 Add/Drop Nodes (20% traffic drop) 75 km amplifier spacing Varying Capacity Needs: 100 Gbps to 2 Tbps Varying Transmission Loop Distances: 500 km to 10,000 km Modeling based on component costs A/D X 6

Optical Packet Switching Characteristics Signaling, Control Plane choices are key IETF and ODSI models Drive the data and optical layer closer together Focus is a fast, scalable switch – not a router System will support existing bit-oriented services without compromise

Why Consider Optical Packet Switching? Network demand is being driven by IP packets Lambda-only solutions may not be enough Flexibility, scaling, network recovery Customer granularity Fractional bandwidth (5 Gbps, 7.5 Gbps, 14 Gbps) Bandwidth on demand Per-customer restoral options Dynamic provisioning Provide new service offerings Multiple priority levels yields tiered services Based on bandwidth, restoral time, SLAs, etc. Efficiency gain through statistical multiplexing

PhotonExpress™ The Evolution of Backbone Optical Networking Optical Switch Mesh Optical Packet Switching UltraFast Long Haul Backbone Rates & Formats Interoperability Rapid Service Turn-Up via Simple Point & Click Provisioning SONET Point to Point High bandwidth interconnect Faster provisioning speeds Distributed network restoration Built on circuit switched model Extending Intranets coast to coast Real time bandwidth management Fastest provisioning speeds Most flexible network restoration SONET Ultra Switch Ultra Switch Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP PhotonExpress™ PhotonExpress™ Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP Ultra POP

Initial Protection & Restoration Options Router 0:1 SR Router 1.6 Tbps Tx, Rx fibers (2) Router 0:1 SR Router 1.6 Tbps Tx, Rx fibers (2) 0:1 SR 0:1 SR Edge Router Edge Router Edge Router Edge Router Unprotected transport with Layer 3 Restoration 1:1 ultra-long haul link equipment and fiber (route diverse) protection Two 0:1 SR or 1.6 Tbps Tx, Rx on working fibers (2) Router Router 1:1 APS Two 0:1 SR or 1:1 APS PhotonEx PhotonEx 1+1 ultra-long haul link equipment and fiber (route diverse) protection 0:1 SR 1.6 Tbps Tx, Rx working fibers (2) protect fibers 1.6 Tbps Tx, Rx Router 0:1 SR Router PhotonEx PhotonEx

Survivability Point-to-Point: optical 1+1 APS Protection Terabit optical link … .. OC-48/192, STM16/64 Optical line amplifier PhotonExpress OC-48/192, STM16/64 … .. Protection Working Point-to-Point Unprotected: Client APS Protection Terabit optical link … .. Optical line amplifier … .. Router/Switch Router/Switch Router/Switch/ SONET Mux Optical 1+1 protection of 1.6 –3.2 Tbps equipment and fiber Two 1.6 –3.2 Tbps ultra-long haul links (unprotected transport) PhotonExpress PhotonExpress PhotonExpress Router/Switch/ SONET Mux Protection Working OC-48/192, STM16/64 OC-48/192, STM16/64 Protection Working

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