Avanex, who intends to be the leading provider of optical solutions in the telecommunications industry, announced the Telcordia Qualification and general availability of its PowerRouter™ 1×4 Wavelenght Selective Switch, which enables the remote high-speed switching of any wavelength or any combination of wavelengths on a 100 GHz grid from any one of the input ports.
The WSS device is bi-directional so the input and output ports can change places with another to operate in a 4×1 mode. The switching process is non-traffic affecting and the device enables per-channel optical power balancing.
Avanex Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Office, Giovanni Barbarossa comments, “We are pleased to announce the general availability of the first WSS product based on our patented and proprietary liquid crystal technology platform. Our liquid crystal WSS platform is covered by a strong intellectual property portfolio and includes 8 patents and several other patents pending.”
Ananex General Manager, Components and Modules Business Unit, Ross Parke, stated, “Our WSS modules have gone through an elaborate Telcordia qualification program which includes extensive environmental and mechanical stress testing to assess field reliability performance. We are pleased with the successful completion of our reliability qualification program which includes test conditions in GR-1221 and other Telcordia standards.”
Avanex Senior Director of Product Line Management, Dr. Sanjai Parthasarathi also mentions, “While WSS deployments are increasing, we continue to believe that true widespread adoption from the core to the edge of the network will require a dramatic change to the economics of these deployments, specifically in the installation and maintenance costs. We seek to accelerate this change by providing a high performance, highly reliable WSS product at an industry-leading price point. A combination of a low cost design produced in a low cost manufacturing environment has enabled our cost differentiation and customer continued development of higher port count and finer channel spacing products for the core, and low cost, small port count products for the edge.”
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