Optical equipment design requires the combination of a variety of technologies, from lasers to semiconductors, transceivers to line cards.

Transport

Optical transport equipment includes multiplexers of all types (OADMs, ROADMs, and other CWDM and DWDM platforms), amplifiers, crossconnects, and others, including the emerging packet optical transport platforms. The information provided here will aid the designers of these systems.

Transport News & Products
The Lightwave Channel
Several variants of DPSK have been developed for 40G networks. Yannick Lize, senior optical designer at Opnext, explains his company's approach, continuously optimized DPSK.
The Lightwave Blog
Oclaro Chairman and CEO Alain Couder and CFO Jerry Turin discussed the company's results of the company's fiscal second quarter 2012 with analysts January 26...
Jim Theodoras, ADVA Optical Networking
Recently, there has been a lot of confusion around the area of next-generation 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) development and who is doing what. Given the...