“Telescent’s system enables quick restoration, it eliminates the need to send a team of people out with multiple trucks, and it provides flexibility in scheduling and performing maintenance on the network”
Company
Telescent Inc., based in Marina del Rey, California, was founded in 2005 to develop systems that automate the management of the physical network layer (Layer-0) within datacom and telecom networks. While existing network management systems monitor and automate electronic network elements within Layers-1 through 7 of the network, the optical interconnect elements within Layer-0, being purely optical and electrically passive in their present form, form a “phantom” network whose status and management are still relegated to manual records, truck rolls, visual inspection, manual testing and disparate database records.
Telescent's automated physical layer management systems ensure reliable and efficient network operations. Corporations spend two to three times the amount spent on hardware to staff their data centers and automation technology has the potential to reduce administration and maintenance costs by more than 25%. This translates into OpEx savings in excess of $50 billion per year!
Team
Telescent Inc. was co-founded by Anthony Kewitsch (B.S. Stanford, M.S., Ph.D. Caltech) and Amnon Yariv (B.S., M.S., Ph.D. UC Berkeley). Telescent’s founders have launched several successful start-ups in the fiber optic communications industry. Dr. Yariv co-invented the DFB laser transmitter used in nearly every fiber optic transceiver, and based on this technology, he co-founded and served as chairman of the board of Ortel Inc. in Alhambra, California, later acquired by Lucent (now part of Encore Inc.) for ~$3B. In 1995, Dr. Yariv and Dr. Kewitsch were part of the founding team of Arroyo Optics Inc., (now Kotura Inc.), a VC funded start-up that developed wavelength selective fiber optic switches, and now a leading developer of silicon integrated optic devices.
Telescent’s network automation and monitoring development efforts have been supported by U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation research programs. Telescent’s automated interconnect system is based on a portfolio of 17 awarded and pending patents. Our design team is experienced in network management software, robotics, optical and electronics design, fiber optic packaging, manufacturing and reliability.