Overture Networks

Overture Networks
Company typePrivately held company
FoundedJuly 2000
FounderPrayson Pate, Jeff Reedy
Headquarters Research Triangle Park,[1] North Carolina, USA
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Mike Aquino, President and CEO
Prayson Pate, Chief Technologist
Arthur Bergens, CFO
ProductsNetworking and telecommunications equipment
Number of employees
75
Websitewww.overturenetworks.com

Overture Networks was a company that designed, manufactured, and marketed networking and telecommunications equipment. It was "a leading developer of converged packet access platforms for Carrier Ethernet services."[2] Overture was headquartered in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina and also maintained offices in Westford, MA and Bangalore, India.

Overture was a member of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).[3] It also held a TL 9000 certification[4] which it received from the QuEST Forum in May 2007.

In January 2016, Overture was acquired by telecommunications vendor ADVA Optical Networking.[5]

  1. ^ "The Future of Great Ideas" Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine, Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  2. ^ Reading 9/27/2007, News Wire Feed Light. "Overture Gets $12.3M". Light Reading. Retrieved 2020-06-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Metro Ethernet Forum Member List" Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, Metro Ethernet Forum. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  4. ^ "TL 9000 Registration Public Profile" Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, QuEST Forum, July 05, 2004. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  5. ^ "American City Business Journals", Morrisville-based Overture Networks acquired for $35M. Retrieved January 25, 2016.