Elematics, a start-up based in Beaverton, Oregon, secured $10 million in Series B financing for its multi-carrier, multi-vendor control plane software. The Elematic's platform is designed to provide a common signaling and control mechanism across multiple vendors' photonic, optical, transport, and legacy network equipment. The new funding will be used to extend the capabilities of the system, as well as for current and future customer trials with Tier 1 and Tier 2 telecommunication carriers. The round was led by Warburg Pincus, Elematics' largest investor, and included contributions from the management team. The total financing raised by the company to date is more than $25 million.
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- In November 2002, Elematics introduced its Intelligent Network Control Plane, which enables real-time control and provisioning of transport services across both on-network resources and off-network resources of multiple carrier networks. When deployed in an existing transport network, the Intelligent Network Control Plane creates a common GMPLS-based control plane that consolidates management, signaling, and provisioning across multiple domains, analyzes and optimizes collective network resources, and presents a common interface to OSS applications, as well as to individual network elements. By providing a common signaling and control mechanism across multiple vendors' new and established transport network equipment, the Elematics' Intelligent Network Control Plane facilitates the discovery and inventory of network elements and services, real-time provisioning, end-to-end connectivity, and unified communication between the complete (optical and electrical) transport network and northbound OSS applications. The platform is compatible with legacy and next generation equipment and integrates with existing management applications. Elematics said its new control plane architecture could help carriers cut their ongoing operational expenses (OPEX) and do more with their existing systems.
- Elematics (formerly QOptics) was founded in late 2000 by Clive Cook, Alex Mashinsky and Jeff Parness.
