Light waves, left unchecked for too long as they travel through the miniscule glass fibres in our optical networks, have a tendency to go on wildly rambunctious rides. The unruly wavelengths scatter apart and break up until their energy fizzles out.
Mayan Networks Corp. wants to take the complexity out of optical networks. Specifically, the company wants to remove digital cross-connects, frame relay switches, ATM switches and SONET add-drop multiplexers from service provider metropolitan-area networks.