Cisco Founder Goes Optical

Len Bosack, one of the founders of Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board), is back in networking, this time with a way to let enterprises control their own optical networks.

Word of the company's appliance, the DXM, leaked in July when Bosack's XKL LLC subtly put a bunch of information up on its Website. But today is the formal launch and the first time Bosack is willing to explain the product and the rationale behind it. (See XKL Tackles Metro Optical.)

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