Mintera |
 
“STAR shared the vision and invested for the long-term with Mintera. When things got tough, STAR provided exceptional support along with strategic and practical advice as we built the business including key introductions to customers and partners through their broad network.” – Terry Unter, CEO, MinteraMinteraMintera is a high bit-rate optical transport systems solution leader enabling migration to 40 and 100 Gbps in metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra long-haul networks. Mintera’s flexible multi-service product-set enables service providers to upgrade their existing infrastructure in an evolutionary and seamless fashion. Mintera continues to gain customer traction since demonstrating the world’s fastest ultra long-haul optical transport connection in June 2004. The company is working on higher bit-rate solutions with multiple research and development labs at carriers, systems suppliers, component manufacturers, research institutes and universities to further drive down optical transmission costs. STAR Ventures led the company’s Series A financing round in October 2000. Other investors include JDSU, Polaris, RRE Ventures, Port Square Ventures and Portview Communications. |