This one ought to be turning up soon. Press releases like this usually indicate expansion in the business. (Which is pretty much what the company has been saying and doing.)
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Ditech Communications Announces Next Generation Optical Amplifier
New Quasar Amplifier Enables Construction of Advanced Metro and DWDM Networks
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Ditech Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DITC - news) today announced its new Quasar product, an advanced optical amplifier that provides a key building block for next generation all-optical networks. Ditech's Quasar amplifier provides the vital wavelength stability required in next generation DWDM Networks.
To deliver high-bandwidth on demand requires optical switches and add/drop multiplexers able to add and drop optical signals within a fraction of a second. However, as an optical channel is added or dropped from an amplifier, the signal power of the other optical channels will fluctuate. If the signal power fluctuates too severely, network connections can degrade or fail, potentially disrupting the communications of tens of thousands of users. Ditech's Quasar provides what the company believes is the most stable optical amplifier for next generation network applications, capable of restoring optical signal stability (called transient response time) within 50 millionths of a second. Quasar's industry leading transient response time enables optical channels to be dynamically added or dropped without affecting optical channel stability and network reliability.
The Quasar product is now available for shipment to network equipment manufacturers. The list price for Quasar is $15,590. Further information on the Quasar can be found at Ditech Communication's web site ( ditechcom.com ).
``With the introduction of Quasar, Ditech significantly expands its optical amplifier product line,'' said Tim Montgomery, Ditech's President and CEO. ``Over the past two years we have been successful selling our Star amplifier product family, which is a feature-rich, plug-and-play subsystem for traditional SONET and DWDM applications. Our Quasar product now allows us to address a whole new set of metro and advanced DWDM optical network environments. We've already received orders for Quasar, and we'll be shipping this quarter.''
``Because optical amplifiers eliminate the costly optical-to-electrical regeneration of an optical signal, they were the key enabler for the first generation of point-to-point WDM networks,'' said Ian Wright, Ditech's Senior Vice President of Engineering for Optical Networking Products. ``We believe the Quasar will be a key enabler for the next generation of optical networks that will switch and route wavelengths of light to provide more flexible and cost-effective bandwidth allocation.''
Ditech Communications Corporation
Ditech Communications Corporation is a global telecommunications equipment supplier for voice and data networks. Ditech's voice products are high-capacity echo cancellers that utilize advanced software and digital signal processor (DSP) technology. This unique combination of software and hardware allows Ditech to deliver Voice Quality of Service (VQoS(TM)), a robust and cost-effective solution for voice enhancement and echo cancellation. Ditech's products for data networks provide building blocks for high-speed, high-capacity backbone networks. These products are based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), a technology that enables many wavelengths of light, each carrying multiple gigabits of information, to be carried on one fiber optic connection. With Ditech's WDM products, network equipment companies and service providers can quickly and cost-effectively expand their network capacity to meet the growing demands of the Internet age without incurring the enormous time and expense of laying new fiber optic cable. Ditech (DITC) is listed on the Nasdaq National Market and is headquartered in Mountain View, California (Web site: ditechcom.com ). |
