Board,
I don't know who I called an idiot way back, but I sure do apoligies.
After what I'm going through, I'll always wait at least an hour to
respond.
Hi Mike, I hope this doesn't make me a Naysayer.
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Optoelectronics reveals network vision at two global shows; Nortel doubles
capacity on single fiber
PAIGNTON, U.K. - Two key industry exhibitions provided showcases for Nortel
(Northern Telecom's) Optoelectronics Division to unveil its vision of the
optical network of the future.
It was launched simultaneously at the National Fiber Optic Engineers
Conference through Sept. 24 in San Diego, U.S., and at the European
Conference on Optical Communications in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nortel also announced Sept. 23 its S/DMS TransportNode OC-192 system will
support 160 Gbps on a single fiber in 1998 using Dense Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (D-WDM). Nortel is the world's leading supplier of
high-capacity SONET networks.
Nortel's OC-192, which has captured 98 percent world market share over the
past year, currently delivers up to 80 Gbps using eight wavelengths. By
expanding the number of wavelengths supported to 16, the Nortel OC-192 will
double the maximum capacity available on a single fiber.
Nortel's eight wavelength D-WDM solution is being demonstrated at the
National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) in San Diego until Sept.
24, with 80 Gbps traffic transported across a `backbone' network serving
the Nortel and Corning booths, using Corning's SMF-LS fiber.
The company showed how its range of active and passive optoelectronic
components can be integrated to deliver the high bandwidth services of
tomorrow.
John Pittman, managing director of Nortel's Optoelectronic's Division,
said: "Market drivers such as the explosive growth of the Internet, the
national and international deregulation of telecommunications and the
increasing demands of both business and domestic users continue to put
pressure on our customers, whether telecoms operators or equipment
manufacturers.
"Only optical networks can deliver the capacity that the information
economy demands and, from our viewpoint, bandwidth-on-demand has now become
synonymous with wavelength-on-demand.
"Our customers use Nortel optoelectronic components in their products for
almost every network technology and network layer in the market - providing
Internet Protocol, ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) and SONET/SDH
(synchronous digital hierarchy) connectivity for long haul, metropolitan
and access applications.
"Developing and manufacturing components to suit this breadth of usage
demands an understanding by us of the many different environments our
products will be used in, the specific strategies of our individual
customers, and the needs of their customers in turn.
"Giving the customer flexibility and choice in leading-edge component
technology means that they in turn have the ability to evolve their optical
networks in the way they want."
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