Ciena 100G Solution Receives R&D 100 Award
Prestigious R&D Magazine award recognizes Ciena’s 100G coherent optical transmission solution for excellence in design, development, testing and production
Press Release Source: Ciena Corporation On Tuesday July 13, 2010, 9:00 am EDT
LINTHICUM, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN - News), the network specialist, today announced that its 100G coherent optical transmission solution is a winner of R&D Magazine’s 48th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which honor the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace during the past year.
With the rapid growth of IP-connected devices – such as smartphones and tablets, and related applications and content – service providers face new bandwidth requirements and the need to ensure an optimal user experience while containing costs. To address these demands, Ciena developed and productized the world’s first 100G coherent optical solution, capable of supporting the largest traffic demands driven by emerging consumer, business and networking applications. Ciena’s agile and cost-effective 100G solution enables service providers to increase the bandwidth of existing 10G fiber network infrastructures by 10 times through simple plug-and-play technology components – without the need to re-engineer their networks or deploy new equipment.
Numerous major service providers and research and education customers worldwide have already completed successful trials and commercial deployments of Ciena’s 100G solution, including Comcast, JANET, SURFnet, Telstra, TelstraClear and Verizon.
To enable service providers to transport 40G and 100G wavelengths simply and cost-effectively across existing 10G fiber networks, Ciena developed several key technologies, including coherent detection, electronic dispersion compensation and Dual-Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK) modulation. In August 2008, the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) acknowledged the strong performance of this approach, selecting it as the recommended line modulation format for 100G data transmission. Ciena holds more than 20 patents related to its work in 100G optical transmission, in areas such as coherent optical receivers, electronic dispersion compensation and timing recovery, with additional patents pending.
“This recognition by R&D Magazine validates the innovative design, development and productization efforts that have contributed to the world’s first and only commercially deployed 100G coherent optical solution,” said Philippe Morin, senior vice president, global products group at Ciena. “Ciena’s 100G solution puts operators at a competitive advantage for the new communications era, ensuring the ability to easily and cost-effectively meet spiraling bandwidth demands while utilizing existing fiber and network equipment investments.”
Winners of the R&D 100 Awards are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine, which serves research scientists, engineers and other technical staff at high-tech industrial companies and public and private laboratories worldwide. Since 1963, the R&D 100 Awards have identified revolutionary technologies, many of which have become household names, including HDTV, ATM and fax machines, halogen lamps and the anti-cancer drug Taxol. |
