Thursday, 08 September 2016

CHATSWORTH, Calif. —September 08, 2016—MRV Communications™, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVC) (“MRV®”), a global provider of innovative packet and optical solutions for service providers, data center operators and enterprises, today announced that its OptiPacket® OP-X1 Carrier Ethernet 100G access solution has earned a 2016 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award from TMC, the publisher of leading industry publications including Cloud Computing, IoT Evolution, Customer, and Internet Telephony.

The OP-X1, a member of MRV’s OptiPacket portfolio of metro service edge solutions, combines the features and expertise of MRV’s optical and packet product suites. As the industry’s first purpose-built 100G Ethernet access device, the OP-X1 platform addresses the growing need for higher bandwidth, driven by the increased and ongoing adoption of cloud services. The OP-X1’s innovative hardware and software architectures future-proof the solution in anticipation of customers’ evolution to next generation networks. The OP-X1 solution is expertly designed to extend 100G Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) capabilities to the metro access and network-to-network interconnects with scalability to thousands of CE services, advanced OAM and traffic management. In addition, the OP-X1 offers a migration path to the new paradigm of an on-demand, dynamic and assured network-as-a-service (NaaS) model.

“It is an honor to be recognized by the TMC judges for this prestigious award. Transformational and software programmable 100G devices, like MRV’s OP-X1, represent a major step forward that enable service providers to streamline wholesale and retail 100G high-capacity services,” commented Zeev Draer, Vice President of Strategic Marketing for MRV. “In addition to bandwidth extension, the OP-X1 provides service demarcation between the service provider and subscribers or network operators. Plus, the OP-X1 delivers intelligent visibility into 100G traffic flows through the collection of analytical data, real-time snapshots of capacity usage, SLA performances, and user experience details. We are proud of this solution and grateful to be recognized for its innovation and leadership.”

“Congratulations to MRV Communications for being honored with a Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award,” said Rich Tehrani, Chief Executive Officer of TMC. “The OP-X1 is truly an innovative product and is amongst the best solutions brought to market in the past twelve months that facilitates business-transforming voice, data and video communications. I look forward to continued excellence from MRV in 2017 and beyond.”

For more information on MRV’s OptiPacket product portfolio, please click here.

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About MRV Communications
MRV Communications (NASDAQ: MRVC) enables service providers, data center operators and enterprises to make their networks smarter, faster and easier to operate. MRV’s end-to-end portfolio includes innovative packet, optical and software platforms designed for flexibility and reliability. To learn more about MRV visit www.mrv.com and follow us on Twitter @MRVC.

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