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Merit Network deploys direct detect 100G technology from ADVA Optical Networking
Optical transport systems vendor ADVA Optical Networking says that Merit Network, which supplies connectivity services to research and education institutions in Michigan, has installed the company’s 100G Metro technology, which is based on direct-detect modulation rather than coherent technology (see “ADVA Optical Networking offers cost-reduced 100-Gbps for metro networks”). The data rate upgrade will increase capacity on a portion of Merit’s core network that runs from Ann Arbor to Detroit and Lansing, to its optical fiber ring in Chicago, where it accesses the Internet2 national high-speed backbone.