Thursday July 26, 1:38 pm Eastern Time
Press Release
Optical Communication Products Launches CWDM
Transceivers Product Family
CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2001--Optical Communication
Products Inc. (Nasdaq:OCPI - news), a manufacturer of fiber optic subsystems and
modules for metropolitan area networks and high-speed premises networks, today
announced the availability of its new family of Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
(CWDM) transceivers.
Optical Communication Products Inc. (OCP) offers these CWDM transceivers in response
to the growing demand for a more cost-effective means of increasing the transmission
capacity of metropolitan area networks.
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing uses lasers with a wide channel wavelength
spacing, typically 20 nm. In contrast, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM),
which is widely used in long-haul networks and some metro networks, uses lasers with much
narrower wavelength spacing, typically 0.8 nm or 0.4 nm.
The wide channel spacing of CWDM means a lower system cost can be achieved. This
lower equipment cost is the result of a lower transmitter cost (because no temperature and
wavelength control is needed) as well as a lower optical MUX/DMUX cost (due to wider
tolerance on the wavelength stability and bandwidth).
``OCP's CWDM transceivers are designed to retrofit into existing single-channel systems.
This allows our customers to simply upgrade existing equipment to allow a four-time increase
in bandwidth carried on an existing fiber installation. They also allow a new generation of
low-cost high-capacity metropolitan systems to be developed,'' said Muoi V. Tran, OCP's
chairman and chief executive officer.
OCP's CWDM transceivers are available in all the common industry standard transceiver
footprints (1x9, 2x9, GBIC and SFF) and provide four wavelength channels at nominally
1510 nm, 1530 nm, 1550 nm and 1570 nm.
They are available in a multirate format which allows operation at all the popular line rate
speeds from 100 Mbd Ethernet up to Gigabit Ethernet including OC-3, OC-12
SONET/SDH/ATM and Fiber Channel. |
