LYNX Chooses Cyan for Michigan Statewide Fiber Network
Project Will Bring High-Speed, Low Latency Business Class Ethernet and
Other Services to Michigan
Kalamazoo, MI and Petaluma, CA, December 19, 2011 – Cyan today announced that Lynx Network
Group (LYNX), a Michigan-based telecommunications service provider, will use Cyan Z-Series packetoptical transport platforms (P-OTPs), Cyan 360 software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) suite, and
CyanPRO professional services to build a high-capacity statewide fiber network in Michigan. The
network will be used by LYNX to deliver innovative, high speed Ethernet services to businesses,
government facilities, cellular towers, and even to other carriers throughout Michigan but especially in
the heretofore underserved northern Michigan markets.
According to Christopher J. Barber, co-owner at
LYNX, “This state-of-the art network is capable of
delivering the types of demanding services
increasingly called for by business and wholesale
customers, especially wireless operators. In
addition to extremely high capacity Ethernet
services, we’re able to satisfy the low latency
requirements that are essential for competitive
LTE backhaul offerings. These capabilities will
allow us to deliver services to rural areas
previously available only in more densely
populated urban markets.”
LYNX will employ the Cyan Z-Series P-OTPs to deliver native Ethernet services at speeds up to 10 Gbps to
office parks and other business locations. LYNX will also offer wholesale wavelength and layer-two
services to service providers and wireless operators. Using CyPlan LYNX will be able to design networks
and services with deterministic latency characteristics. Additionally, CyPortal will allow LYNX and its
customers to examine individual service connections in real time in order to ensure capacity and latency
requirements are being satisfied. Both CyPlan and CyPortal are components of Cyan 360.
A major consideration for LYNX is the ability of CyMS, Cyan’s multi-layer management system, to
manage third-party devices. In this case CyMS will manage Ethernet NIDs supplied by Accedian, greatly
improving overall operational efficiencies.
LYNX will also take advantage of CyNOC, a 24x7 network operations service offered by Cyan that
leverages efficiencies inherent in Cyan 360 tools in order to cost effectively deliver reliable and troublefree network operations. CyNOC is an element of the CyanPRO suite of professional services.
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“What is most compelling about this project is that it includes all of the pieces necessary to turn up nextgen Ethernet services,” said Cyan vice president of sales Eric Clelland. “By next-gen we mean Ethernet
services that are more than simple layer two connections but instead are tightly engineered, servicelevel-aware, and customer-monitored network connections.”
About Lynx Network Group
Lynx Network Group a premier wholesale and retail provider of telecommunication services in the
Midwest. Lynx utilizes direct sales and agent channels to sell the newest, always changing technologies
in voice and data services. Today, LYNX operates as a key provider of wholesale intrastate data services
to major wireless and wireline (fiber based) carriers. In 2007, LYNX launched its TEM (Telecom Expense
Management) services division which extends its capability to market services to wholesale, commercial
and government entities on a local or global scale. For additional information, please visit
www.lynxnetworkgroup.com.
About Cyan
Cyan is an industry-leading, global innovator of multi-layer packet-optical transport platforms, software
and SaaS solutions, and professional services that fundamentally transform networks into Service Level
Aware Networks. Cyan has a wide range of deployments across the world. Cyan customers range from
multi-million line local access service providers, to regional transport, business Ethernet, wireless
backhaul, data center and cable MSO service providers. Cyan enables service providers to scale, extend,
and simplify conventional and packet-based networks for more profitable service offerings. For
additional information, please visit www.cyaninc.com or follow Cyan on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/CyanNews.
For Cyan inquiries, please contact:
Frank Wiener
+1 707.280.6280
frank.wiener@cyaninc.com
Twitter: @CyanNews
Engage PR for Cyan
Jeannette Bitz
+1 510.748.8200 ext. 207
jbitz@engagepr.com
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