Athena Technology is a privately held company founded in 2007 that develops carrier Ethernet switching technology. Its goal is to become the leading metro Ethernet products organization. Athena's management team has over 100 years of experience in telecommunications switching. The global carrier Ethernet market is growing significantly due to increased internet traffic and demand for business and residential services. Athena has developed high-performance, high-density core and access switches that are more cost effective than competitors and optimized to handle increasing bandwidth demands on carrier networks.
44. Early movers such as Apple’s iTunes succeeded in evangelizing their technologies
45. Huge investments for R&D by early movers in digitizing content helped market acceptance of the technologies
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47. Telco carriers are losing millions of basic customers (over 25M in US alone, $625 million in monthly revenue) to competitors because they cannot offer competitive high speed services.
68. Option Line Cards Line card A 8x10GE Ports (OC192, DWDM, 10GE) Line card B 2x40GE Ports (OC768, STM-256) Line card C 48 x 1GE ports Line card E 48 x 1GE ports & 4x 10GB Ports (OC192, 10GE, DWDM) Line Card E 64 x 1 GE Ports