Lightchip adds new capabilities to Versalight optical wavelength router

Lightchip announced the addition of 200 GHz spacing and flat passband capabilities to its Versalight optical wavelength router (OWR). The newly equipped diffraction grating-based Versalight OWR provides 20 200GHz ITU spaced channels. With the addition of 200GHz spacing and flat passband capabilities to the Versalight OWR, service providers can achieve the network efficiencies and flexibility to route wavelengths where and when they are most needed.

The OWR provides ultra low-loss, bi-directional wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing of disparate network traffic flows on a single fiber. Lightchip's patent pending flat passband product reduces overall network costs by decreasing the expense and maintenance needs of optical transmission equipment. The new Versalight 200GHZ OWR enhances network performance by allowing signals to pass through many filters without causing distortion to the signal or altering filter characteristics.

In concert with Lightchip's optical wavelength manager (OWM), the Versalight OWR allows service providers to deliver higher quality service by rapidly monitoring and measuring OSNR (optical signal-to-noise ratio), direction and optical power of each wavelength in real time.

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Lightchip's Versalight platform enables communications equipment manufacturers to cost-effectively transform static, hard-to-manage networks into intelligent optical networks. For more information, visit www.lightchip.com.