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Emery Telecommunications & Video Selects ECI Telecom to Build a ROADM Network for Utah Fiber Network
Posted on 06.20.07
ECI Telecom has announced todaythat Emery Telecommunications & Video (ETV), a subsidiary of Emery Telcom (an Independent Local Exchange Carrier, ILEC) and a member of Utah Fiber Networks, LLC (UFN), has selected ECI Telecom’s ROADM and Converged Multi-Service Transport Platform (MSTP) for a statewide fiber transport network. Filed under: ROADMs and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.04.07
Optium, a US based maker of optical subsytems, had this to say regarding 40 Gbps components in their latest earnings report: Optium added to its product line with the acquisition of Kailight Photonics Inc of Nes Ziona, Israel (announced at the end of March and completed in May), whose 40Gb/s product line addresses both client-side and line-side applications. “As we connect our strong base of customers to Kailight’s leading technology, we are seeing a very positive response,” claims Gertel. “Customers have been particularly interested in our ability to offer module solutions that can be integrated into line-cards cost effectively,” he adds. “We expect to make our first 40Gb/s product shipments in our current fiscal fourth quarter.” Filed under: ROADMs and WDM Technology and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.10.07
Fujikura Limited and Nistica, an optical subsystems supplier, have announced a cooperative agreement. As part of this strategic relationship, Fujikura will provide full production manufacturing facilities and processes for Nistica’s volume delivery of Nistica’s series of tunable filters and ROADM modules, as well as future Nistica products. Filed under: ROADMs and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.10.07
ECI Telecom has announced that Corenet, a provider of telecommunication services in Finland, has selected ECI Telecom’s XDM all range ROADM platform for deployment of a ROADM mesh networks. Filed under: ROADMs Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.02.07
Excert from a Matisse Networks press release: A new study by Network Strategy Partners (NSP) compares the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a metro Ethernet optical transport network built using ROADMs (Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexers) with one using Matisse Networks’ EtherBurst Optical Switch. According to the study, “Total Cost of Ownership Analysis of Matisse Networks EtherBurst Optical Switch,” as bandwidth demand scales to 10 Gbps and beyond, the relative savings with EtherBurst continue to increase when compared against ROADM systems for metro Ethernet optical transport networks.
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Posted on 04.03.07
Read here for an analysis of the Metro ROADM market in Europe. Quote: “I read a figure recently of US$80 Million for 2006, which is just plain wrong,” he says. “Numbers have been distorted due to one vendor counting WDM equipment as ROADM in order to hype up the market.” Filed under: ROADMs Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
Alcatel-Lucent has signed an agreement to acquire Canadian metro WDM networking supplier Tropic Networks, Inc. According to Lightreading "The main thing it was after in acquiring Tropic was not its ROADM but rather Wavelength Tracker, the network management system that allows network operators to monitor and provision optical signals end-to-end across a mesh network." Filed under: ROADMs and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.08.07
Global Crossing has announced it has been awarded the contract to support Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS) to consolidate and upgrade its pan-European network. Global Crossing will provide 3,000 km of dark fibre and associated colocation space connecting 36 major points of presence in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Germany, as well as wavelengths on routes that are geographically dispersed from Belgacom ICS’ network. Global Crossing will also take charge of decommissioning existing optical transmission equipment and manage the installation of Siemens’ 40-Gbps compatible Surpass 7500 optical add-drop multiplexers (OADM). Filed under: ROADMs and Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.28.06
Alcatel has announced that it has signed a turnkey contract with P&TLuxembourg, a provider of postal and telecommunications services in Luxembourg, to deploy a Trans-European Network using Alcatel’s reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplex (ROADM)-powered solution. The Trans-European Network will span more than 3,000 km linking Luxembourg, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium), Frankfurt (Germany), London (England), as well as Paris and Strasbourg (France). Filed under: ROADMs Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.09.06
At the recent Gilder Telecosm conference, a discussion panel focused on the relative merits of optical-electrical-optical (OEO) conversion vs. the all-optical network and namely reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexing (ROADM). In one corner was Infinera (OEO) and in the the other, apparently everyone else. Nyquist Capital provides coverage. Filed under: ROADMs Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.19.06
This Telephony article debates whether carriers are ready for edge-ROADMs. The first of this product breed was recently introduced by startup Nistica. The concensus from people interviewed in the article is that, aside from niche applications, there is no need yet to deploy edge-ROAMS; the argument being that the costs are still high and the particular requirements of edge networks do not match up with the remote reconfigurability advantages of ROADMs. Filed under: ROADMs Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.27.06
The capacity of metro optical networks is being constrained by the rollout of high-bandwidth access networks. Agile optical networking has been touted as the architecture of choice to mitigate the middle mile "bottleneck". This article, by Ken Davison who is vice-president for marketing at Meriton Networks, in optics.org does a particularly good job of defining what agile optical networking means and analogies are provided with the M25 orbital motorway. Further, enabling technologies (WSS ROADM, CWDM, multidegree wavelength and sub-wavelength switching) are discussed. Filed under: ROADMs and CWDM Systems Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.14.06
Siemens Communications will work with Belgacom ICS to develop the first telecommunications network based on ROADM technology (Reconfigurable Optical Add & Drop Multiplexer) in continental Europe. The new fiber-based network (PEN4FUTURE) will link 16 European telecommunications nodes and enable Belgacom ICS to offer its customers transmission capacity up to n x 40 Gb/s wavelengths. The PEN4FUTURE project will be based on Siemens’ Surpass hiT 7500 platform Filed under: ROADMs and New WDM Deployments Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.11.06
Ciena has announced the addition of hybrid optical electrical ROADM capability to its 4200 optical platform Filed under: ROADMs Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.11.06
ECI Telecom has added wavelength selective switch - reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (WSS-ROADM) capability to its XDM optical platform. ECI’s ROADM solution enables service providers to build … networks, based on a … 10-degrees WSS ROADM plus a comprehensive lambda management suite. It also features a unique ROADM-optimized amplifier that provides more power and more redundancy than any competing product. Filed under: ROADMs Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.11.06
OpVista has announced the addition of a ROADM interface card to its OpVista2000 platform. This card allows operators to add ROADM capability to 1st and 2nd generation DWDM systems. Filed under: ROADMs Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.25.06
An optical subsystems startup, Nistica, still in steath mode, has announced a new round of funding and gave some clues to what types of products it is developing: Only through optical switching between the network core and the access infrastructure can carriers meet this delivery challenge. Nistica will help operators affordably automate, simplify and incrementally scale WDM wherever they need it.” Industry analysts estimate that nearly 100% of central offices in the North American market will require more than one optical wavelength for meeting the projected growth in network bandwidth. Today only 10% of central offices can cost-justify expensive core Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexing (ROADM) technology. Nistica’s subsystem technologies are designed to fill this key cost-performance gap for telecommunications systems manufacturers. Nistica CEO Ashish Vengsarkar states, “We provide the ability to automate the network edge at a small fraction of the cost of today’s technologies that automate the network core. While providing low-cost solutions, we deliver two essential qualities to the network edge: high optical performance, and telecom-class reliability. Filed under: ROADMs Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 04.04.06
The increasing need for reconfigurability is advancing the need for replacement of optical add-drop multiplexers (OADMs) with reconfigurable OADMs (ROADMs). With the use of ROADMs, insertion loss per node increases from 3-6 dB to up to 12 dB. With power budgets approaching 80 dB in these case, the use of optical amplifiers specifically designed for metro WDM networks becomes necessary. In this article, Ahmad Atieh and Robin Andrew of BTI Photonic Systems discuss the neccesity of ROADMs in metro WDM networks and the requirements and design parameters for optical amplifiers that are integrated with ROADMs. Filed under: ROADMs and WDM Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.04.06
In this Lightwave article, Steven Robinson of Meriton Networks asserts that the cost structure of WDM networks is shifting from most Capital Expenses to Operating Expenses due to reduced equipment prices and increasing and more complex usage patterns by the consumer. Agile optical networks are designed to address this trend through automated network lifecycle planning, ROADM technology and dynamic provisioning through the use of ROADM’s and programmable hardware. The article contains additional information on the above. Filed under: ROADMs and WDM Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.27.06
Movaz Networks has announced the Missouri Network Alliance’s (MNA) continued expansion of their network using the RAYexpress Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM). MNA is a consortium of Independent Operating Companies (IOC) that is deploying a regional DWDM optical network which circumnavigates the state of Missouri providing wavelength services to its customers. The project uses Movaz DWDM technology to remedy fiber-exhaust situations by reusing fiber that was originally deployed in a SONET ring architecture. Filed under: ROADMs and Fiber Optic Cable Network Upgrades Comments: None |
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