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FREMONT, Calif., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Avanex Corporation (Nasdaq: AVNX) will launch two new products in its line of revolutionary photonic processors during the Optical Fiber Communications conference in Baltimore March 5-10, as well as provide hands-on demonstrations of the increased functionality of current products designed to increase the performance of fiber optic networks.
Avanex will be in Booth 2957.
Walter Alessandrini, president and CEO, said Avanex continues to develop and introduce products to meet the needs of next-generation networks.
"The communications explosion continues to demand dramatic improvements in network capacity. Speed, high channel counts and long transmission distances are core issues which we are addressing," he said.
"The products we are introducing at OFC, along with those we introduced last summer and fall, are designed to enable current networks to cost- effectively migrate to the next generation. They reflect Avanex's distinctive combination of network design knowledge, unequalled optical technology and micro-optics integration and packaging expertise."
At OFC, Avanex will introduce its PowerExchanger(TM) Reconfigurable and Fixed Optical Add/Drop Multiplexing Processors and its SuperPowerShaper(TM) Dispersion Slope Processor. It also will provide active demonstrations of its PowerMux(TM) Wavelength Channel Processor and PowerShaper (TM) Dispersion Compensation Processor, as well as display its PowerFilter(TM) Wavelength Separator.
Avanex's patent-pending technologies give its photonic processors low insertion loss, high channel isolation and excellent stability and reliability.
Avanex's two newest products, the PowerExchanger and SuperPowerShaper, are designed to offer solutions to limitations inherent in current optical transmission technologies.
The SuperPowerShaper Dispersion Slope Processor contributes to longer optical transmission distances by combating the tendency of fiber optic signals to drift horizontally and distort as they travel over longer distances. The SuperPowerShaper complements Avanex's PowerShaper product, which is the industry's first and only tunable chromatic dispersion compensator.
The reconfigurable PowerExchanger can selectively add or drop any number of optical channels off the main trunk of a network, making it suitable for the ring and mesh networks of the future. In simplest terms, The PowerExchanger functions like a freeway interchange on the Information SuperHighway, allowing channels of information to be directed to their ultimate destinations at any point on the main trunk. The reconfigurable feature gives network designers greater flexibility and enables scalability as network needs increase.
The PowerMux family of wavelength channel processors can accommodate any channel count, any channel spacing and any bit rate. They offer significantly higher utilization of available bandwidth and low cost per channel. Avanex will demonstrate the PowerMux in a 160-channel configuration during OFC.
PowerFilter Wavelength Separators are based on interference filter technology and provide WDM band-splitting and channel separating functionality to enhance the performance of WDM systems.
The PowerFilter family of products is designed to fit into existing transport equipment and also are configured into an end-user package. This enhanced packaging allows for scalability and growth. For example, a user can increase its DWDM channel count from 16, to 32, and to even 64 channels in the same shelf, without discarding any components. Consequently, the PowerFilter family allows a user to migrate into the more advanced PowerMux technology as capacity requirements dictate.
The product demonstrations at OFC also will illustrate Avanex's distinctive understanding of network applications. Avanex uses The Photonics Center(TM) in Richardson, Texas, its leading-edge customer testing, demonstration and training facility, to showcase the performance of its products in a simulated network.
About Avanex
Avanex designs, manufactures and markets photonic processors for the communications industry. Avanex's photonic processors offer communications service providers and optical systems manufacturers greater levels of performance and miniaturization, reduced complexity and increased cost- effectiveness.
Avanex was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, Calif. In addition to a development and manufacturing facility in Fremont, the company also maintains The Photonics Center (TM) in Richardson, Texas.
To learn more about Avanex, visit its web site at: www.avanex.com . |
