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April 19, 1999, Issue: 1156
Section: Special Report: New growth markets/emerging OEMs
Some Key Players
Alcatel (www.alcatel.com or www.usa.alcatel.com), Paris, earlier this month
announced its 1690 OADM, a 16-channel DWDM system tailored for the
metropolitan and enterprise markets. Based on the same platform as the
company's 1640 LXT for long-haul applications, the 1690 OADM provides
transponders for interfaces ranging from 100 Mbits/s to 2.5 Gbits/s, and is
upgradable to 32 channels.
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Ciena Corp. (www.ciena.com), Linthicum, Md., last month announced that it
was beginning to ship its next-generation MultiWave 4000, a 40-channel
DWDM system scalable to 96 channels with 50-GHz channel spacing. Ciena's
other long-haul system is the MultiWave 1600 Sentry (16 channels). Short-haul
systems are the MultiWave Firefly (24-channel for central offices) and the
MultiWave Metro (a 24-channel ring).
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Lucent Technologies (www.lucent.com/ opticalnet), Murray Hill, N.J., is
currently shipping two systems and will begin shipping another this summer. The
WaveStar OLS 40G is a 16-channel DWDM system for long-haul applications.
Lucent's Wave-Star OLS 400G, also for long-distance transmission, is an
80-channel device that delivers up to 400-Gbit/s capacity. The system the
company will introduce this summer is designed for metropolitan applications.
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Nortel Networks (www.nortelnetworks.com), San Diego, in February
introduced its OPTera DWDM portfolio for next-generation "IP-over-light"
communications in long-haul and metro applications. The company's OPTera
LH platform for long-haul transmission features a capacity of up to 320 Gbits/s.
The OPTera Metro is a 32-channel, ring-based DWDM solution with a capacity
of 80 Gbits/s per fiber.
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Osicom Technologies Inc. (www.osicom.com), Santa Monica, Calif., is focusing
almost exclusively on the metropolitan market. Its 32-channel GigaMux DWDM
system increases total bandwidth from 2.5 to 80 Gbits/s. The system supports
fault-tolerant DWDM rings as well as point-to-point network configurations, and
is protocol transparent and data-rate independent in the 51-Mbit/s to 2.5-Gbit/s
range.
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