October 30, 200910/30 11:15 AM: Wait -- what's that thing up in the sky? Is that the sun?
Another new-to-me company here is InnoTrans Communications, which specializes in 1550-nm transmitters. its Chromadigm product can support a wide variety of cable architectures, from HFC cable deep to RFoG and PON. The product has seen application for node splitting and fiber reclamation via WDM (it can be configured for WDM support of 4 to 16 wavelengths), as well as upgrades from 1310 nm. The company's most recently announced customer is Cox Communications Northern Virginia for a 1-GHz optical transport upgrade project.
NEC is also here in an attempt to get a foothold in the MSO space. Rich Moran says the company is leveraging its relationship with Transmode (which is also here at the show) to offer the Scandinavian company's WDM systems as well as its own packet transport platforms, particularly the recently announced MN Series. Large MSOs like to deal with large systems suppliers, Moran says, and that's where NEC comes in, particularly for equipment that supports business services delivery and wireless backhaul.
