The company was founded in 2005 as a merger of two leading optical technology companies from Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cambridge, UK. Polatis provides optical layer connectivity software for managing and switching fiber-based optical networks. Their products include single- and multi-mode optical matrix switches, carrier optical monitor switches, and latching switches. Their DirectLight optical matrix switch technology scales from 4x4 to 384x384 ports, and has been used in telecommunications, datacenter, government, test, and video networks. With over 9 billion port-hours in-service worldwide, Polatis is a dependable and field-proven provider of all-optical switching solutions for dynamic remote fiber-layer provisioning, protection, monitoring, reconfiguration, and test.