Optical Transport System

The SN 10000 Intelligent Optical Transport System is a high-capacity transport platform optimized for provisioning services across long-haul and ultra long-haul networks. This transport system is designed to span distances of up to 4,000 km and support wave counts up to 1.6 terabits - all without optical-to-electrical-to-optical (OEO) regenerations.

The system uses available capacity and reduces infrastructure costs, allowing customers to provision high-speed optical wave services such as tiered protection, optical Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and customer network management from a single platform. The system offers customers a wide range of service interfaces -- OC-3/STM-1 through OC-192c/STM-64c, and Gigabit Ethernet - and can be upgraded to OC-768/STM-256. It offers high-capacity support for distance/wavelength distribution all while run by the company's SILVX Optical Network Management System (ONMS).

The system harnesses a combination of the latest innovative hard-optics and soft-optics capabilities to deliver managed optical services and provide customers with a competitive advantage. Hard-optics innovations, which include optional Raman amplification, dispersion compensation and high-capacity Forward Error Correction (FEC), enable it to achieve extended transmission distances and reach high capacities while reducing infrastructure costs. The system has a software-centric architecture, which allows easy integration of innovative hard-optics technologies. With its combination of intelligent networking and systems software, it is designed to enable customers to provision and manage a portfolio of high-speed wave services. When combined with SILVX ONMS, the system offers service providers the fundamental tools to rapidly construct, sell, monitor, and bill for new wave-based services. The SN 10000 will be generally available in the first half of 2001.

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