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To: ftth who started this subject	11/2/2000 5:53:19 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) of 46821

FDM vendor in the news - Centerpoint - LENS - (Lightwave Efficient Network Solution) - Modulates Digital input signal into RF signal Hi y'all, I'm wondering if anyone here is familiar with this company: centerpoint.com Centerpoint announced Tuesday a mezz round of VC loot worth $130 big. Not a bad day's work.... They seem to be making some interesting claims about their capabilities in the metro mux market. Er, "the first optical aggregation and transport system to provide 20 Gbps capacity on a single wavelength." To quote the website. Here's a blurb from Milcom Technologies: milcomtech.com ConvergeNet's blurb describes the secret sauce as "Subcarrier Multiplexing (SCM) technology to increase bandwidth capacities of metropolitan fiber networks without using DWDM. Centerpoint's SCM technology takes a digital input signal and modulates it into a radio frequency (RF) signal." convergedigest.com From a PR thingy: biz.yahoo.com Centerpoint's SCM technology takes a digital input signal and modulates it into a radio frequency (RF) signal, making it possible to offer the combined benefits of SONET and other optical networking technologies at a fraction of the cost. This allows carriers to optimize existing infrastructure by making it more efficient, scalable, and flexible. LightReading has only a bit to say, so byte away: lightreading.com lightreading.com (Described here as a frequency division multiplexing play.) lightreading.com Where LR answer the so-what-jaundiced murmur of this crowd: Because FDM has the potential to become wildly popular with service providers, allowing them to cram exponentially more traffic onto installed fiber lines. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'd be interested to hear if anyone thinks this technology is important and unique enough to pay more attention to. Is it the next great thing after sliced cheese? Or just a Limburger variant? TIA. -Ray

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