Cisco sets up optical compliance lab in B’lore

BANGALORE: Cisco Systems, Inc. has inaugurated its first "Optical Compliance Lab" for the Asia Pacific region in Bangalore. The high-end testing/compliance lab will do bench testing and customized testing of Cisco's optical products for its customers in India and the Asia Pacific region. It will also enable Cisco to test/demonstrate its optical products in India to customers and the government that will help in gaining regulatory approvals for the products.

With this Optical Lab Cisco will be able to provide enhanced support to customers and regulatory bodies in India and the region. Inaugurating the lab, Cisco Systems optical networking group SVP, Jayshree Ullal said, "The Asia Pacific region is driving the growth in the telecom infrastructure market today. The region is leading the way in cutting edge technology deployments including optical networks. India is a key market in this region and is also an IT engineering hub for the world. These are the reasons for Cisco selecting India as a destination to set up the lab".

She added, "Cisco has future plans to equip this lab with testing and measuring equipment for additional optical technologies such as storage extensions over DWDM and metro optical Ethernet. The lab will also act as proof of concept center for Cisco's next generation optical products/solutions."

The lab comprises of a network simulator to simulate the network conditions and to test the performance parameters as per the ITU-T standards and test equipment to measure the physical layer parameters as specified in ITU-T.

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