JUNE 18, 2008 -- ECI Telecom (search for ECI Telecom), a global provider of networking infrastructure equipment, has announced several new optical capabilities for its XDM optical networking platform in line with the 1Net framework as announced earlier this year.
The company says its new two-degree (2D) reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) is designed to bring end-to-end flexibility to carrier networks, reducing overall costs by eliminating back-to-back regeneration and enabling carriers to increase revenues by significantly improving response time for deployment of new services. The ROADM was cost-efficiently designed for metro core and metro edge segments, and complements ECI's multidegree WSS ROADM. The new ROADM is optimized for sites with lower degree needs or requiring full add/drop capability.
An additional feature introduced is the multiservice, multirate ADM-on-Card (AoC). The AoC is a next-generation optical service card, combining the cost-efficiency of an optical platform with the granularity and flexibility previously available in SDH/SONET networks. The AoC leverages the high capacity and scalability of the OTN layer and the advantages of SDH/SONET-like networks, without an actual SONET/SDH matrix. ECI's AoC offers high density on a single card. It is particularly optimized for video applications, featuring multicast drop-and-continue capabilities. These features are part of ECI's recently announced 1Net framework. ECI 1Net is committed to offer carriers lower total cost-of-ownership and increased revenue opportunities while facilitating the transition to next-generation networks.
"Today's competitive environment is putting extreme demands on carriers, who are striving for increased revenues and lower costs," says Eve Griliches, telecom equipment, IDC. "Having an edge-to-core ROADM portfolio with high-density, cost-optimized service cards allows ECI's customers to be very competitive. These new enhancements reinforce ECI's commitment to its customers and its growing position in the optical market."
With improved end-to-end planning tools, operators are able to easily design and optimize their networks, dramatically reducing response time in any necessary redesign of the network. These new features work in concert with ECI's LightSoft network management system.
"The new XDM optical features demonstrate our commitment to the advancement of optical networking. We give service providers the tools to considerably reduce response time for delivery of new revenue-generating services while eliminating the need to redesign part or all of a network, reducing both opex and capex," says Oren Marmur, vice president of Optical Networking Line of Business at ECI Telecom.
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