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Thursday, March 1, 2007
PETAH TIKVA (ISRAEL): ECI Telecom Ltd, a provider of access and transport networking infrastructure equipment, has announced the industry's first successful demonstration of 43Gb/s transmission over 1,000 km via a 10-Degree 50 GHz-channel-spaced WSS ROADM.
The technology, demonstrated on ECI's XDM all range ROADM platform, would enable carriers to deploy a cost-effective solution for high capacity reconfigurable networks.
ECI's effort for a smooth migration from 10Gb/s to 40Gb/s involves the usage of bandwidth-tolerant 43Gb/s modulation formats. The demonstration showed that these modulation formats enable crossing of up to 1,000 km through 50GHz-spaced WSS ROADMs, while maintaining high noise tolerance, similar to that of 10Gb/s signals.
ECI's XDM solution allows carriers to build reconfigurable ROADM-based networks, with maximum capacity of 80 channels x 40 Gb/s (or 3.2Tb/s), with distances suitable for metro, regional and long haul applications.
"ECI's solution of combining 40Gb/s with multi-degree ROADMs and 50 GHz spacing answers our customers' immediate needs and will take them well into the next decade," said Eyal Shaked, general manager (Transport Networking Division) and Executive Vice President of ECI Telecom.
"This successful demonstration once again proves ECI's leadership in next-generation high-capacity, reconfigurable optical networks."
ECI will present details about the demonstration and its results at OFC/NFOEC 2007 in Anaheim, California on March 28.
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