Marlin Equity Partners Expands Coriant Portfolio with Sycamore's Optical Networking Solutions

Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”), a global private investment firm, announced that Sycamore Networks Solutions, Inc. (“Sycamore”) will join forces with Coriant, a Marlin portfolio company and leading supplier of 100G+ optical transport, OTN switching, and software-defined service control and management solutions to Tier 1 service providers worldwide.

As a result, Sycamore, which was acquired by Marlin in January 2013, will become Coriant America Inc., and will remain headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Sycamore will also adopt the Coriant brand for all of its product and service offerings, significantly enhancing the customer value proposition of an expanded Coriant portfolio with industry-leading optical mesh technology, intelligent control plane software, and multiservice switching solutions.

The expanded Coriant portfolio offers unparalleled customer benefits, including:

• Expanded end-to-end solutions
• Enhanced, software-centric optical networking capabilities
• Strengthened global service and support offerings