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Optical Infrastructure The Current Analysis Optical Infrastructure module covers the optical networking systems market, optical systems vendors and their products, and the carriers and service providers into which they sell. The emphasis of coverage is on the competitive environment, how vendors are currently positioned to take advantage of that environment to maximize revenue potential, and what they should do to better align themselves with market opportunity to beat the competition. In addition to real-time, event-driven analysis of the relevance and impact of optical systems vendors' strategic and tactical announcements, focused analysis of the market environment, competitors, market requirements, product features, technologies, and vendor product marketing strategies and tactics is provided. Metro Access - Metro Access systems serve as SONET/SDH or WDM-based on-ramps to the MAN and WAN. Supporting point-to-point connectivity and typically OC-12/48 or STM-1/4/16 access rings or meshed topologies, these systems carry Ethernet, DS1/E1, DS3/E3, OC-x/STM-x, ATM, Ethernet, and storage networking services based on protocols such as ESCON, FICON, and Fibre Channel, and can provide access, aggregation, and in some cases a degree of grooming and switching capabilities. Metro Edge - Metro edge systems integrate multi-service next-gen SONET/SDH Add/Drop Multiplexers with DWDM, digital cross connect, and Ethernet transport and switching and/or Resilient Packet Ring technologies to link the Metro Access and Metro Core networks by providing aggregation and transport capabilities. Metro Edge covers the MSPP platforms and the transport, switching, and packet ring technologies used and interfaces and feature/functionality supported by competing vendors. Metro Core - Metro Core systems are optical transport systems incorporating remotely configurable optical add drop multiplexers to provide high capacity transport typically up to 32 wavelengths onto a fiber pair. Metro Core systems provide connectivity metro-wide for access WDM systems, and can carry high bandwidth video traffic, wavelength services, GbE services, storage applications based on ESCON, FICON, and Fibre Channel, or TDM across the MAN. Optical Switching - Optical switches provide carriers with the means to manage, control, and switch wavelengths across the network. Deployed at the metro edge, metro core and core network, these systems switch wavelengths from one route to another, provide various levels of bandwidth management, grooming and intelligent optical cross-connect capacities, and lay the groundwork for flexible, intelligent networks in the future that can dynamically respond to fluctuating demand and network resource availability. WAN DWDM - WAN Dense Wave Division Multiplexing systems are the Long Laul and Ultra Long Haul optical transmission systems used to increase the carrying capacity of fiber optics. Used in conjunction with SONET transport, routers, switches, or metro DWDM, these systems typically multiplex between 800 Gbps to 3.2 Tbps of OC-48/STM-16 or OC-192/STM-64 channels onto a fiber strand or pair to maximize utilization of fiber resources, and carry that traffic over distances of 600 to 4000 km without OEO regeneration to minimize cost.
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Follow the links below to read free newsletters, highlights, analyst news flashes, telebriefing replays, and samples of recent Current Analysis Competitive Intelligence from the Optical Infrastructure module. CeBIT 2008: BTI Systems Joins Packet Optical Fray with Small Form Factor Platform - 3/4/2008 OFC/NFOEC 2008: Fujitsu Updates FW 7500 to Broaden Platform’s Network Footprint - 2/20/2008 Ciena Makes Direct Play for Ethernet Access Market, Acquires World Wide Packets - 1/22/2008 Alcatel-Lucent Launches META Solution for All-IP Mobile Backhaul Migration NXTcomm 2007 Optical Infrastructure Round-up: Trade Show Floor Messaging NEC Debuts Dual-core Switch, CWDM Access Platform Nortel Enhances OME 6500; Debuts new MSPP; Creates PBT Incubator ECI Increases Capacity and Reach of XDM Platform Alcatel-Lucent Spiffs Up 1850 TSS with New Features and New Form Factor Fujitsu Upgrades FLASHWAVE 7500 platform with 40G Wavelength Support Honey, I Shrunk the ROADM – Tellabs Introduces 7100 Nano OTS Ciena Bulks Up the CN 4200 Platform, Releases Fourfold Capacity Increase Sycamore Increases Switching Capabilities for SN 16000 Turin Announces Carrier Ethernet Solution; New Product Feature Infinera Unveils 40G and IQ4.0 to Support Better Performance Monitoring Transmode Adds MicroROADM to TM-Series Platforms Ciena Updates FlexSelect Portfolio, Operationalizes 40G Transport Capabilities OpVista Adds Ethernet Aggregation to nWave Fujitsu Introduces FLASHWAVE 9500, Joins the Packet Optical Networking Fray Alcatel-Lucent Buys ROADM Partner Tropic Network Nokia Siemens Networks Day One FREE ADVISORY REPORT The Role of Optical Infrastructure in Mobile Wireless BackhaulJason Marcheck Special two-part report: Part I: Market Drivers To be sure, the adage “there’s more than one way to skin a cat” holds true for designing the increasingly robust backhaul solutions that mobile operators are already starting to demand. From an optical infrastructure perspective, however, this is not exactly a new market. For almost as long as cellular phone service has existed wireless traffic has been aggregated and backhauled from radio access networks (RAN) for transport over optical backbone networks. With that in mind, the response to the increasing hype around mobile backhaul – at least from an optical perspective – might well be, “what’s the big deal all of a sudden?” Part II: Emerging Solutions In the future it will entail migrating to IP radio access and backhaul transport in support of HSPA (and ultimately LTE) technologies. At the same time, this migration entails more than a simple cutover of traffic from one technology to the next. Because 3G rollouts occur in phases, operators are finding it increasingly necessary to manage multiple forms of traffic from the same cell sites. In order to make this happen, it is becoming clear that more intelligent backhaul transport solutions are required.
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