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RED-C and Proximion to Promote EDFA Design Optimized for DCM Technology
San Diego, CA, (March 3, 2008) RED-C Optical Networks Ltd. (RED-C), a leading provider of integrated optical subsystems based on state-of-the-art optical amplification and monitoring technology, and Proximion, a world leading provider of dispersion compensation solutions, today announced their cooperation in promoting an erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) design optimized to take advantage of the unique properties of DCM technology. DCM technology based on Fiber Bragg Gratings enjoys a number of advantages relative to conventional dispersion compensating fiber (DCF), such as much reduced insertion loss, negligible optical delay, and high optical power tolerance. EDFAs optimized to take advantage of these properties offer significant cost savings and reduced footprint, as well as providing performance advantages with respect to noise figure and transient suppression. This partnership meets the emerging need to design sub-systems using new innovative approaches for increased optimization. Combining Proximion’s DCM solutions with RED-C’s amplifier designs provides an additional constructive step to fully exploit the advantages even further in improving cost/performance ratio. Proximion’s DCM solutions include the continuous band DCM-CB, the high-value HDCM and new channelized DCM-ITU. The unique features of these FBG-based, cost-effective DCMs are already proven with volume deliveries to major system vendors enabling them a higher degree of freedom when optimizing their systems with respect to performance and cost. "This cooperation with Proximion to promote a DCM‑optimized EDFA design represents RED-C's continuing commitment to providing our customers with the most cost-effective and technologically advanced amplification solutions to suit their needs,” noted Yossi Boker, RED-C President & CEO. “It further emphasizes RED-C’s technology leadership and its continuous pursuit of cutting edge products and designs." “We are proud to cooperate with RED-C in their creative initiative to design optimized EDFA solutions,” commented Stefan Ekman , Proximion CEO.”Our cooperation with RED-C marks the beginning of a trend utilizing our DCM solutions in the development of cost-effective, high-performing optical sub-systems for high capacity DWDM networks.” About RED-C RED-C Optical Networks Ltd. is a leading provider of integrated optical subsystems based on state-of-the-art optical amplification and monitoring technology. By integrating its amplifier and monitoring products with complementary optical devices, RED-C offers synchronized, interconnected and cost-effective solutions to meet the most challenging demands network vendors face today. For more information please refer to www.red-c.com. About Proximion Proximion is a world-class provider of optical modules and sub-systems based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) technology. By combining these unique optical engines with the truly innovative skills of its team, Proximion contribute to its partners’ success in a variety of markets. The founding team of Proximion has pioneered design, manufacturing, and application of advanced FBGs. Proximion’s unique and patented method enables manufacturing of FBGs with virtually any filter characteristics. Proximion is a privately-held company headquartered in Kista, Sweden. Media contacts: Bengt Johansson , CTO, Proximion Lynda Starr, PR@vantage
Proximion Showcases Dispersion Compensation Module Continuous Band (DCM-CB)Solution offers low loss and channel plan independency - increasing performance and system flexibility San Diego, California, February 25, 2008 — Proximion Fiber Systems AB, a world-class provider of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) based Dispersion Compensation Modules (DCMs), announced today the demonstration of its DCM-CB for 40G bps at this year’s Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC). The DCM-CB covers the full continuous C-band and enables any channel plan, any bit rate and any modulation format and provides network operators with a low loss, non-existing latency solution. It increases performance and efficiency, making it suitable for transmission over mission critical networks. Utilizing Proximion’s proprietary FBG design and manufacturing technology, the DCM-CB supports any channel plan and provides a small form factor compared to incumbent dispersion compensation technologies. The DCM-CB primarily addresses next-generation dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) systems with increased transmission capacity which will benefit from the flexibility in channel spacing offered by the full C-band coverage. “We are experiencing a paradigm shift where the system vendors are not only preparing for 40G bps at 50GHz channel spacing, but also applying new approaches when designing systems,” says Bengt Johansson, CTO at Proximion Fiber Systems AB. “Today’s market is moving to 40G bps systems and is looking for cost-effective solutions, such as the DCM-CB which contributes to lowering system cost. We also see an increased interest in minimizing the overall system latency, especially for storage and Ethernet applications, to improve the effective bandwidth.” Realizing the unique features of the DCM-CB, system vendors are now designing systems utilizing novel amplification solutions to address the overall performance and cost. These novel amplifier solutions take full advantage of the DCM-CB’s absence of non-linearity effects and absence of latency in combination with the inherent low loss to optimize the amplification designs. Proximion will showcase DCM-CB at OFC on February 26 – 28, Booth Number 3619.
About Proximion Proximion is a world-class provider of optical modules and sub-systems based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) technology. By combining these unique optical engines with the truly innovative skills of its team, Proximion contribute to its partners’ success in a variety of markets. The founding team of Proximion has pioneered design, manufacturing, and application of advanced FBGs. Proximion’s unique and patented method enables manufacturing of FBGs with virtually any filter characteristics. Proximion is a privately-held company headquartered in Kista, Sweden. Media contacts: Bengt Johansson , CTO, Proximion Lynda Starr, PR@vantage
Proximion demonstrates channelized 40Gbps Dispersion Compensation ModuleCompact solution offers wider bandwidth and superior performance at lower cost San Diego, California – February 25, 2008 — At the 2008 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), Proximion Fiber Systems AB today announced the demonstration of its new 40 Gbps dispersion compensation module (DCM-ITU). DCM-ITU is a cost-effective dispersion compensation solution with a small form factor. Unlike competing alternatives, the DCM-ITU in wider bandwidth and has superior performance due to low group delay ripple (GDR). Highly suitable for cascaded applications, DCM-ITU is operates in 40Gbps as well as 10Gbps formats and over the entire C-band. This of DCM-ITU supports bandwidth consuming modulation formats at 40Gbps. The bandwidth is wider than 42GHz, still enabling 100GHz channel spacing. The solution is ideally suited for metropolitan and regional networks. On optional basis, Proximion also provides channelized solutions with ITU-offsets of +33GHz, +50GHz and +66GHz from the ITU-grid, suitable for submarine applications, e.g. slope compensation. With a unique and proprietary FBG manufacturing technology Proximion produces high performance dispersion compensation modules with the advantages of having no non-linear effects, no latency and having a very low signal and power loss compared to the alternative of traditional dispersion compensating fibers (DCFs). “The DCM–ITU is perfect for those customers that don’t need 50-GHz channel spacing but still want to run 10bps and 40Gbps systems in a cost-effective way” says Stefan Ekman, CEO at Proximion. “The importance of dispersion management is increasing in all parts of the networks. We are already an established supplier to a number of systems vendors for applications up to 40Gbps.” DCM-ITU is currently available on volume basis. Proximion will showcase DCM-ITU at OFC on February 26 – 28, Booth Number 3619.
About Proximion Proximion is a world-class provider of optical modules and sub-systems based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) technology. By combining these unique optical engines with the truly innovative skills of our team, Proximion contribute to partners’ success in a variety of markets. The founding team of Proximion has pioneered design, manufacturing, and application of advanced FBGs. Proximion’s unique and patented method enables manufacturing of FBGs with virtually any filter characteristics. Proximion is a privately held company headquartered in Kista, Sweden. Media Contacts: Bengt Johansson , CTO, Proximion Lynda Starr, PR@vantage |
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Proximion Fiber Systems AB mail:info@proximion.com phone: +46 (0)8 750 48 88 fax: +46 (0)8 750 48 80 address: Skalholtsgatan 10 B SE-164 40 Kista Sweden vat.no:SE556641515301 |