MRV Communications is a communications equipment and services company based in Chatsworth

Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California

Chatsworth is a district of Los Angeles, California, United States; in the northwestern San Fernando Valley. The district is bordered by the Santa Susana Mountains and unincorporated Los Angeles County lands to the north, Porter Ranch to the northeast, Northridge to the east, West Hills, Canoga...

, California

California

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. The company, through its business units, is a global provider of optical communications network infrastructure equipment and services to a broad range of telecom concerns, including multinational telecommunications operators, local municipalities, MSOs, corporate and consumer high speed G-Internet service providers, and data storage and cloud computing providers. As a single source provider of routing, Ethernet and optical transport equipment and services, MRV provides its customers with integrated network management, cost effective equipment and network integration services. MRV can also manage all aspects of evolving network architectures.

History

MRV was founded in 1988 by Prof. Shlomo Margalit and Dr. Zeev Rav-Noy as a maker of Metro and Access optoelectronic components. MRV’s Metro and Access transceiver

Transceiver

A transceiver is a device comprising both a transmitter and a receiver which are combined and share common circuitry or a single housing. When no circuitry is common between transmit and receive functions, the device is a transmitter-receiver. The term originated in the early 1920s...

s enable network equipment to be deployed across large campuses or in municipal and regional networks. To expand leadership, MRV established LuminentOIC, an independent subsidiary. LuminentOIC makes fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) components, activity that was initiated by Rob-Goldman that founded the FTTx business unit in Luminant at 2001.

In the 1990s, MRV produced gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second , as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard. It came into use beginning in 1999, gradually supplanting Fast Ethernet in wired local networks where it performed...

 switching, WDM and Optical Transport for Metro and campus environments. MRV began building switches

Network switch

A network switch or switching hub is a computer networking device that connects network segments.The term commonly refers to a multi-port network bridge that processes and routes data at the data link layer of the OSI model...

 and routers used by carriers implementing Metro Ethernet

Metro Ethernet

A Metro Ethernet is a computer network that covers a metropolitan area and that is based on the Ethernet standard. It is commonly used as a metropolitan access network to connect subscribers and businesses to a larger service network or the Internet...

 networks that provide Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....

 services to enterprise customers and multi-dwelling residential buildings. In 1998, MRV acquired Xyplex Networks

Xyplex

Xyplex Corporation was founded in the 1980s in Boxborough, Massachusetts by Peter Nesbeda, George Conant, and Bob Rosenbaum, all of whom had previously worked for Digital Equipment Corporation . Nesbeda was one of DEC's representatives in the development of the Ethernet specification...

, a producer of out-of-Band networking components.

On July 1, 2007, it completed its acquisition of Fiberxon, Inc.

On October 26, 2010, it announced the divestiture of Source Photonics, Inc. to Francisco Partners.

On November 3, 2010, MRV completed the acquisition of the remaining 40% interest in Tecnonet that it did not already own.

Structure

The business is conducted along two principal segments: the Network Equipment group and the Network Integration group.

• The Network Equipment group provides equipment used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service providers, and includes switches
  Network switch
  A network switch or switching hub is a computer networking device that connects network segments.The term commonly refers to a multi-port network bridge that processes and routes data at the data link layer of the OSI model...
  
  , routers, physical layer products and console management products as well as specialized networking products for aerospace, defense and other applications including voice and cellular communication. This group includes MRV Optical Communications Systems, Creative Electronic Systems SA, and Appointech, Inc.
• The Network Integration group provides end-to-end solutions including consulting, installation and support and managed services for fixed line, cable and mobile communications networks. This group includes MRV's European business units: Alacdon in Sweden, Interdata in France, Tecnonet in Italy and TurnKey in Switzerland.

MRV has sales offices in more than 20 countries and sells its products and services both directly and through channel partners with support from their sales forces. MRV conducts international operations in branch offices located in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, China

China

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, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, Italy

Italy

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, Mexico

Mexico

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, the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Spain

Spain

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, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, Taiwan

Taiwan

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 and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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.

Products and services

MRV provides integrated secure network equipment and services connecting analog and digital data, voice, and video within buildings and across private networks located in multiple buildings such as college or corporate environments and in metropolitan and regional long-haul networks. At the access point to the network, MRV provides standard-based products, including Ethernet connectivity over telephone wires. Access speeds (data rates) vary, scaling up to Gigabits-per-second, and providing security features such as intrusion control and traffic rate control.

The products aggregate network traffic using standard protocols to interconnect high-speed networks. Additional features enable new services such as virtual private network

Virtual private network

A virtual private network is a network that uses primarily public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or traveling users access to a central organizational network....

s permitting remote private network access over the Internet and quality of service, permitting the ability to deliver time-sensitive data, control the bandwidth

Bandwidth (computing)

In computer networking and computer science, bandwidth, network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it .Note that in textbooks on wireless communications, modem data transmission,...

, set priorities for specific network traffic and provide an appropriate level of security.

For campus networks and metropolitan networks, where fiber optic cabling is not available, or cannot easily be deployed, MRV provides point-to-point connectivity using free-space optics (“FSO”) technology, a line-of-sight technology that uses lasers to provide optical bandwidth connections that can send and receive voice, video, and data information on invisible beams of light. These products can be deployed quickly carrying network traffic from building to building without digging up the street to install fiber optic cabling, or can be used in disaster recovery and back-up applications.

MRV also provides wave division multiplexing technology to expand the capacity of existing fiber optic infrastructure by enabling simultaneous transmission of information over multiple wavelength

Wavelength

In physics, the wavelength of a sinusoidal wave is the spatial period of the wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.It is usually determined by considering the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same phase, such as crests, troughs, or zero crossings, and is a...

s on the same fiber optic strand. In addition, MRV provides network management systems that allow users and network administrators to control remote network elements, including network equipment, temperature and alarm sensors and power supply.

Competition

MRV competes directly with a number of established and emerging networking equipment companies. Direct competitors in networking products, switches and routers generally include ADVA Optical Networking

ADVA Optical Networking

ADVA Optical Networking is a telecommunications vendor that provides network equipment for data, storage, voice and video services. ADVA Optical Networking has a global workforce of over 1,000 employees and its Fiber Service Platform has been deployed in more than 250 carriers and 10,000...

, Alcatel

Alcatel

Alcatel Mobile Phones is a brand of mobile handsets. It was established in 2004 as a joint venture between Alcatel-Lucent of France and TCL Communication of China....

, BATM Advanced Communications, BTI systems, Inc., Canoga Perkins Corp., Ciena, Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...

, Cyan Optics, Inc., ECI Telecom Ltd., Ekinops SYS, Ericsson, Extreme Networks, Fujitsu

Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....

, Huawei Technologies Inc., Nokia Siemens Networks BC, Omnitron Systems Technology, Imc., Optelian, RAD Data Communications, Ltd., Tellabs, Inc., Transition Networks and Transmode. Competition in the Network Integration group comes from other regional service providers in those markets.

Board of directors

• Kenneth H. Shubin Stein, Chairman of the Board
• Joan Herman, Director
• Charles M. Gillman, Director
• Michael E. Keane, Director
• Michael J. McConnell, Director
• Igal Shidlovsky, Director
• Dilip Singh, Chief Executive Officer
• Philippe Tartavull, Director

Officers

• Dilip Singh, Chief Executive Officer
• Chris D. King, Chief Financial Officer
• Donna Lane, Vice President, Human Resources
• Jennifer Hankes Painter, Vice President General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary
• Blima Tuller, Vice President, Finance