type societas europaea traded as fwb adv industry telecommunications equipment headquarters martinsried germany key people brian protiva ceo nikos theodosopoulos chairman of the supervisory board products wavelength division multiplexers carrier ethernet access products network management software revenue 441.9 million 2015 operating income 26.8 million 2015 profit 26.8 million 2015 total assets 391 5 million end 2015 total equity 215.9 million end 2015 number of employees 1 524 end 2015 website www.advaoptical.com adva optical networking se is a telecommunications vendor 1 that provides network equipment for data storage voice and video services . adva optical networking has a global workforce of over 1 500 employees and its fiber service platform fsp has been deployed in more than 250 carriers and 10 000 enterprises . 2 contents 1 corporate history 2 chief officers 3 acquisitions 4 products 5 markets 6 market share 7 references 8 external links corporate history edit the factory in meiningen adva optical networking was founded in germany in 1994 by brian protiva . it established its headquarters in martinsried near munich and its first production facility in meiningen . funded by egora holding 3 the company s initial focus was on the development of wavelength division multiplexing technology designed to provide enterprises including banks insurance firms and utilities with high bandwidth network connectivity . its first product the excon multiplexer was launched in the following year and it was first deployed by westf lische landesbank . the company then added sales offices in mainland europe and one in new jersey usa before selling media converters to its first carrier customer colt telecom group in 1997 . this was followed by its second product the optical channel multiplexer and its third generation of products the fiber service platform i and fsp ii . in 1999 adva optical networking made an initial public offering on the frankfurt stock exchange 4 and in the following year it launched its fourth generation of products the adva fsp 3000 and the adva fsp 500 . in 2000 it acquired storage area networks ltd. cellware broadband technologie gmbh firstfibre ltd. and siemens norway telecom r & d division . after opening a new r & d production and administration facility in meiningen in 2001 the company began to build its market share in north america and asia signing oem agreements with fujitsu and hitachi ltd. in 2003 adva optical networking introduced the fsp 1500 a generic framing procedure next generation synchronous digital hierarchy access solution and in the next year it introduced its first fsp 150 ethernet access product . it also made its next acquisitions with metro packet systems inc. in 2004 . two years later it acquired covaro networks and then movaz networks inc. for 6.52 million shares of common stock and 6 million cash . 5 in 2011 adva optical networking developed the fsp 150eg x edge gateway for carrier ethernet access and backhaul networks . a new user network interface raycontrol was developed for adva optical networking s gmpls control plane in 2012 along with the syncjack suite for timing synchronization and assurance across mobile backhaul networks . in 2014 adva optical networking acquired oscilloquartz sa . 6 this was followed in 2015 by the acquisition of time4 systems . 7 in january 2016 adva optical networking acquired overture networks for an initial 35 million plus a 5 million conditional earn out payment . 8 its annual revenue rose from eur 217.7 million in 2008 to eur 441.9 million in 2015 . chief officers edit ceo brian protiva cfo ulrich dopfer cto christoph glingener acquisitions edit 2016 overture networks north carolina usa 8 2015 time4 systems uusimaa finland 9 2014 oscilloquartz sa neuch tel switzerland 10 2006 movaz networks inc. atlanta georgia usa 11 covaro networks inc. richardson texas usa 12 2004 metro packet systems inc. wilmington delaware usa 13 2000 siemens norway telecom r & d team oslo norway 14 first fibre ltd. york uk 15 cellware breitband technologie gmbh berlin germany 16 storage area networks ltd. cambridge uk 17 products edit the fsp 150 18 family . this platform provides intelligent ethernet access solutions . the fsp 3000 . 19 this platform is a scalable wavelength division multiplexing wdm system . the fsp management suite contains four pieces the fsp element manager a local craft terminal lct application to activate provision and monitor individual network elements . the fsp network manager an element management system ems that provides end to end network management . the fsp network planner a software tool designed to simplify the network planning process and save time preparing network configurations . the fsp service manager provides the capability to manage the end to end delivery of business aligned high quality services across networks . markets edit adva optical networking focuses on two network markets enterprise and carrier . 20 enterprise networks this includes customers in vertical markets such as research and education organizations governments banks insurance firms utilities and the media . each segment has its own network focus including business continuity 21 disaster recovery 22 continuous data protection 23 grid computing 24 network and application virtualisation distance learning collaborative working server consolidation data center connectivity 25 carrier networks carrier networks are undergoing a period of significant change . business and residential customers are demanding access to high bandwidth applications that are creating enormous data demands on today s network infrastructure including triple play services 26 iptv 1 video on demand video conferencing online gaming virtual private networks vpns ethernet services 27 lan services mobile data services market share edit in 2009 infonetics research listed adva optical networking as the industry leader 1 position in the ethernet access device ead space with a market share of 20 percent 28 based on 2008 revenues . this market strength is also reflected in the wdm space where infonetics research also listed adva optical networking as the 3 metro wdm provider in the europe middle east and africa emea region as well as 4 both globally and in north america . 29 references edit a b fibre systems europe . fibre systems europe . egora holding . optical keyhole daily . adva optical acquires movaz . ee times . retrieved 12 november 2014 . adva optical networking acquires oscilloquartz sa from swatch group . reuters . retrieved 19 january 2016 . adva acquires time4 systems . light reading . retrieved 19 january 2016 . a b adva adds nfv smarts with 35m overture acquisition . light reading . retrieved 19 january 2016 . adva acquires time4 systems . light reading . retrieved 19 january 2016 . light reading . telephony . light reading . lightwave . trading markets . converge digest . optical keyhole daily . byte and switch . light reading . lightwave . optical keyhole daily . infostor . financial services technology . sns europe . sns europe . risk uk . internet telephony . iec . infonetics research carrier ethernet equipment april 6 2009 . infonetics research optical network hardware quarterly worldwide and regional market share size and forecasts 3q09 december 4 2009 . external links edit official website v t e tecdax companies of germany updated 18.03.2013 adva optical networking aixtron bb biotech bechtle cancom ag carl zeiss meditec dialog semiconductor dr gerwerk drillisch euromicron evotec freenet ag jenoptik kontron lpkf laser & electronics morphosys nordex se pfeiffer vacuum psi ag qiagen qsc ag sartorius ag sma solar technology software ag stratec biomedical systems s ss microtec telef nica germany united internet wirecard xing retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title adva optical networking & oldid 712394610 categories telecommunications companies of germanymeiningencompanies based in 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