| Nortel Networks to extend reach of metro DWDM networks Nortel Networks has revealed plans to enhance its metro optical portfolio to extend the reach of metro dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical networks. The announcement was made at NFOEC (National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference) 2003 in Orlando. Greater metro optical network reach means that service providers will be able to locate redundant data centres more remotely from the 'home office' for protection against wide area disasters. Nortel Networks intends to deliver these enhancements in two phases. In the first phase, scheduled for availability in the fourth quarter of 2003, Nortel Networks’s OPTera Metro 5200 Multiservice Platform will extend the reach of metro DWDM networks to as far as 350 kilometres over 2.5 Gbps (gigabits per second) channels and 110 kilometres over 10 Gbps without dispersion compensation. The second phase enhancement, scheduled for availability in the first quarter of 2004, will extend this reach to as much as 600 kilometres over 10 Gbps channels.
•Date:
9th September 2003 • Region: N.America/World
•Type: Article •Topic:
ITC
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