New technology brings digital benefits to the metro edge of the optical network. The result reduces network costs, simplifies operations, and provides efficient sub-wavelength management and transport across an integrated end-to-end network.
Irit Gillath, vice president of product line management at Telco Systems, explains how Active Ethernet works and why it makes a worthy alternative to PON for FTTH.
In an interview last week in the wake of Verizon's commercial deployment of Nortel's 100-Gbps technology, Metro Ethernet Networks group VP of R&D Dino DiPerna talked with me...