Metro-Optix is a venture-funded telecommunications equipment provider pioneering a new generation of optical networking systems. Metro-Optix's products will allow carriers to transition from traditional circuit services to high performance cell and packet services. Metro-Optix was founded in December 1999. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and has development facilities in Plano, TX and Santa Clara, CA. It also has turnkey design centers in Bangalore and Madras, India.

With an entrepreneurial team of more than 175 persons, the company has developed a multi-layer bandwidth manager aimed at metropolitan optical access to the Internet and public voice and data networks. Metro-Optix products will enable network service providers such as CLECs, IXCs, ILECs, and ISPs to deliver profitable, network-based services to corporations and carriers. Metro-Optix's innovative solution has generated significant interest from leading service providers. The company's products are operating within its lab, and are scheduled for trials in mid-2000.