CEO's Wavelength:

In High Tech, it has always been hard to argue against the importance of flexibility.  By now, we are all accustomed to the rapid emergence of the “next big thing” leading to major changes in our lives.  This has never been more true than today in communications technology.  Faced with unprecedented bandwidth explosions, and Internet traffic migrations from email to massive file transfers (currently a majority of Internet traffic), the rate of change in technology has never been faster.

The articles in this issue of the Newsletter of the New Optical Internet  examine the issue of flexibility from the optical perspective. 

One significant advantage of using mirrors to create, monitor and protect lightstreams at layer 1 is that the lightstream management is independent of the nature of the traffic.  We will look at why this is increasingly important in today’s networks.

One of the best signs that the long telecom nuclear winter has ended is the growing support for 40Gb/sec per wavelength transponders from vendors over the last year.  We will look into this new phenomena in depth.

Finally, we will look at a real world application which stretches optical networking beyond the usual SONET/SDH/Ethernet worlds and into RF. 

Reading these articles, you’ll see why intelligent optical switching can add important flexibility into your network. 

 

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