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Marconi is one of the world's fastest growing communications and IT companies, with over 45,000 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. A leading global provider of high performance communications solutions for public and private networks, it has a long history of innovation and technological breakthroughs.

Marconi / RTP is a part of the Marconi Communications group. Marconi Communications is the world leader in optical networking with around one third market share in the area of Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH). Marconi also offers leading wireless and fiber to the curb access products and a broad portfolio of solutions for Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks.

Marconi / RTP, formerly a subsidiary of Bosch Telecom, was purchased by Marconi on February 1, 2000. Located in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area of North Carolina, Marconi / RTP is focused on developing products that conform to the emerging Full Service Access Network (FSAN) specifications. FSAN is a global standard being developed by a 23-member interest group which includes twelve international and eleven U.S. telephone companies. The FSAN initiative is creating requirement specifications for fiber-optic access systems that provide both broadband and narrowband services in public and private telecommunication network environments.

The FSAN architecture is very similar to that used in the iFLX product developed at Marconi / RTP. Both architectures incorporate high bandwidth, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), passive optical network (PON) and Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL) technologies. By using the existing iFLX platform as a broadband foundation for FSAN products, Marconi today offers access systems that can migrate seamlessly towards FSAN compliance.

The iFLX System - An ATM-PON based Full Service Access Platform