-LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: Lucent Technologies' TrueWave product wins industry award at CLEO
Presswire - May 06, 1998 14:25
M2 PRESSWIRE-6 May 1998-LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: Lucent Technologies' TrueWave product wins industry award at CLEO (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Lucent Technologies' TrueWave Balanced Cable, part of the company's award-winning TrueWave fiber product line, has been selected to receive the 1998 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) show in San Francisco.
The award, sponsored by Photonic Spectra Magazine, comes on the heels of the product's introduction at SuperComm '97, and highlights the groundbreaking importance of the industry's first fiber optic cable designed to overcome signal spreading in long haul networks. Lucent's TrueWave fiber, developed by the world renowned Bell Laboratories, is the first fiber specifically designed to work with optical amplification and won the same award at this show in 1995.
The product was judged on a number of merits including technological innovation and product improvement. The cable's unique design allows optical signals to travel greater distances and at higher bit rates while maintaining signal quality.
"We are delighted, but not surprised that our TrueWave Balanced Cable has won this award," said Janice Haber, product manager for Lucent's TrueWave product line. "Our TrueWave product line has raised the bar for other nonzero-dispersion fibers in the marketplace."
As the industry's first dispersion self-compensating fiber-optic cable, the patented TrueWave Balanced Cable enables customers to build high capacity transport networks for transmitting high bit rate signals over long distances, while virtually eliminating the need for dispersion compensation which manages signal spreading.
Lucent's TrueWave fiber product line has won numerous industry awards since its introduction in 1993 as a breakthrough in fiber optic technology. Lucent invented nonzero-dispersion fiber, which is designed to overcome pulse broadening and signal mixing in high power optically amplified Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) systems. When used with DWDM transmission systems, such as Lucent's WaveStar OLS 400G, TrueWave fiber can increase capacity and enhance the performance of fiber optic networks.
Lucent remains the industry leader in providing fiber for high capacity networks and has many world class customers including, AT&T, Qwest, ICG, Time Warner, GTE, FiveCom, Frontier Communications and Metromedia.
Lucent Technologies, the largest vertically integrated fiber-optic cable manufacturer in the world, has a long list of "firsts" in optical fiber technology. Bell Labs is responsible for such innovative fiber-optic technology inventions as the laser in 1958. In 1978, Lucent was the first to offer optical fiber ribbons, now sold as part of its AccuRibbon product line. Since introducing TrueWave fiber in 1993, Lucent has sold millions of kilometers of TrueWave fiber to customers around the world. Lucent remains the industry leader in ribbon technology and in providing fiber for high capacity networks.
Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. More information about Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ, is available on its Web site at lucent.com. |
