LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: New optical networking products to make data networks
faster, smarter, cost-effective
JUN 8, 1999, M2 Communications - MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent
Technologies (NYSE: LU), the global leader in optical networking
technology, today announced a series of advanced optical networking
products that will enable carriers to build and manage high-performance
optical data networks. These networks will help carriers provide the
capacity needed to break through the Internet's bottlenecks, optimize
the performance of such Internet-based applications as distance
learning, collaborative conferencing and online investing, and offer
exciting new services for the next millennium. Adding to Lucent's
industry-leading WaveStar* family of optical networking products, these
new technologies will lead to dramatic increases in fiber capacity, a
greater than 90 percent reduction in inventory and operations costs,
and ultra-reliable network monitoring.
"It's all about bandwidth -- providing
ever-increasing amounts of it, as well as intelligent, cost-effective
ways to manage it," said Gerry Butters, president of Lucent's Optical
Networking Group. "With these groundbreaking products, Lucent will
continue to combine the power of the Internet with optical networking's
virtually limitless capacity to deliver vast amounts of information --
and exciting new services -- at the speed of light. Thanks to Bell
Labs' breakthroughs in photonics, networking in the new millennium will
be limited only by the boundaries of our own imaginations."
New amplifier will increase bandwidth, make optical universally
accessible Designed by Bell Labs, Lucent's new WaveStar L-Band
Amplifier will enable service providers to transmit data, voice and
video traffic in an optical wavelength range, called the "L" Band, that
they cannot utilize today. Today's Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
(DWDM) systems work strictly within a wavelength range in the fiber
called the "C" Band, and cannot transmit information through the
longer-wavelength "L" Band. DWDM enables service providers to transmit
different wavelengths -- or colors -- of light on the same fiber
strand, thereby increasing the fiber's bandwidth. By opening up this
previously untapped wavelength band, this new amplifier will allow
carriers to eventually double the number of wavelengths they send
through a fiber and enable DWDM to work on a wider range of fiber
types. The WaveStar L-band Amplifier is expected to be commercially
available by June 2000.
Driving the industry toward terabit networking
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B: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: New optical networking products to make data networks
faster, smarter, cost-effective
JUN 8, 1999, M2 Communications - MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent
Technologies (NYSE: LU), the global leader in optical networking
technology, today announced a series of advanced optical networking
products that will enable carriers to build and manage high-performance
optical data networks. These networks will help carriers provide the
capacity needed to break through the Internet's bottlenecks, optimize
the performance of such Internet-based applications as distance
learning, collaborative conferencing and online investing, and offer
exciting new services for the next millennium. Adding to Lucent's
industry-leading WaveStar* family of optical networking products, these
new technologies will lead to dramatic increases in fiber capacity, a
greater than 90 percent reduction in inventory and operations costs,
and ultra-reliable network monitoring.
"It's all about bandwidth -- providing
ever-increasing amounts of it, as well as intelligent, cost-effective
ways to manage it," said Gerry Butters, president of Lucent's Optical
Networking Group. "With these groundbreaking products, Lucent will
continue to combine the power of the Internet with optical networking's
virtually limitless capacity to deliver vast amounts of information --
and exciting new services -- at the speed of light. Thanks to Bell
Labs' breakthroughs in photonics, networking in the new millennium will
be limited only by the boundaries of our own imaginations."
New amplifier will increase bandwidth, make optical universally
accessible Designed by Bell Labs, Lucent's new WaveStar L-Band
Amplifier will enable service providers to transmit data, voice and
video traffic in an optical wavelength range, called the "L" Band, that
they cannot utilize today. Today's Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
(DWDM) systems work strictly within a wavelength range in the fiber
called the "C" Band, and cannot transmit information through the
longer-wavelength "L" Band. DWDM enables service providers to transmit
different wavelengths -- or colors -- of light on the same fiber
strand, thereby increasing the fiber's bandwidth. By opening up this
previously untapped wavelength band, this new amplifier will allow
carriers to eventually double the number of wavelengths they send
through a fiber and enable DWDM to work on a wider range of fiber
types. The WaveStar L-band Amplifier is expected to be commercially
available by June 2000.
Driving the industry toward terabit networking
In a separate release issued today, Lucent's Bell Labs announced the
first successful transmission of 40 gigabits (billion bits) per second
of information on 40 individual wavelengths in a DWDM system. The Bell
Labs' prototype system was able to transmit 1.6 terabits (trillion
bits) per second of information over 400 kilometers on a single strand
of Lucent's TrueWave RS optical fiber. "The introduction of the
WaveStar L-Band Amplifier and the ability to transmit 40-gigabit
signals over a record-setting number of wavelengths will enable Lucent
to develop the super-capacity systems that our customers crave," added
Butters. "We brought our 80-channel system from concept to market in
less than 15 months, and we expect these new technologies to enable us
to bring industry-leading systems supporting 160 channels -- and beyond
-- to market even faster."
Tunable lasers will make optical data networking more affordable In
its continuing effort to dramatically drive down the cost of optical
data networking systems, Lucent also is unveiling its new WaveStar
Tunable Laser that will enable service providers to reduce inventory
and operations costs by more than 90 percent. Since today's lasers can
transmit only one pre-set color of light each, a service provider needs
to maintain one spare laser for each wavelength being transmitted by
its DWDM system. For instance, a carrier using an 80-channel DWDM
system needs to purchase 80 spare lasers to keep in reserve. But just
as radios can be tuned to receive multiple radio stations, each of
Lucent's WaveStar Tunable Lasers can be tuned to transmit up to 20
different wavelengths -- or colors -- of light. Therefore, the same
carrier will need to keep only four spare lasers in inventory. Lucent
expects to be the first company to bring tunable lasers to market for
DWDM systems, with commercial availability scheduled for mid 2000.
Integrating the speed of optics with the power of data networking At
this week's SuperComm '99 show in Atlanta, Ga., Lucent will showcase
its industry-leading optical networking technology with Ascend
Communications' GX 550 "Smart" Core Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
switches. Ascend's GX 550 will interface directly with Lucent's
WaveStar OLS 400G long-haul DWDM system, enabling multiservice
packet-based ATM traffic to travel directly over the optical layer of
the network at speeds up to 400 gigabits per second (Gb/s). The
combination of technologies from Lucent, the leading provider of DWDM
equipment, and Ascend, the leading provider of wide area networking
(WAN) solutions for network service providers, will provide carriers
with a more simplified network architecture and lower operational costs
by eliminating the need for Synchronous Optical NETworking (SONET) or
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) signals and equipment.
Performance-monitoring technology will reduce cost and complexity of
networks Lucent is bringing additional intelligence to the optical
layer of the network with its new WaveAgent* performance monitoring
technology. This new capability will be offered with Lucent's
80-channel DWDM system -- WaveStar OLS 400G -- enabling the optical
layer of the network to instantly check on the health of any signal.
Until now, the only feasible way to monitor, analyze and manage optical
channels was to rely on separate SONET/SDH equipment throughout the
network. Using WaveAgent will help carriers reduce both the cost and
complexity of their networks by bringing this functionality directly to
the optical layer.
"Our customers have told us that providing more and more wavelengths
is valueless without also offering intelligent solutions for monitoring
and managing the traffic that those wavelengths are carrying," said
Butters. "Our work with Ascend and the introduction of WaveAgent will
provide our customers with the tools they need to cost-effectively
analyze and route any kind of network traffic." Lucent is demonstrating
WaveAgent at SuperComm this week and is expected to make it
commercially available on the WaveStar OLS 400G by the end of August
1999.
Optical networking leadership
With more than 2,400 systems installed worldwide, Lucent is the
global leader in DWDM technology. According to KMI Corp., a leading
market research firm, Lucent has the largest share -- 29 percent -- of
the $2.2 billion global DWDM equipment market. Bell Labs, which has
garnered more than 2,000 patents in optical technology alone, has been
designing networks for 75 years -- yet the pace of Bell Labs innovation
has never been faster. In 1993, Lucent's TrueWave fiber was the first
fiber specifically designed for high-capacity DWDM networks. In 1998,
Lucent was first to market with an 80-channel DWDM system, which can
transmit up to 400 Gb/s of information over a single fiber.
Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of
public and private networks, communications systems and software, data
networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics
components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of
the company. For more information about Lucent Technologies, visit its
Web site at lucent.com.
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