OpVista completes core network upgrade for Cox Communications

MARCH 29, 2007 -- OpVista (search for OpVista) has completed a core network capacity upgrade for Cox Communications throughout the service provider's Connecticut and Rhode Island networks. Started in the middle of 2006, the network upgrade features OpVista's recently announced AnyWave Optical Network architecture and products, giving Cox Communications a single DWDM platform scalable to 800 Gbits to support new 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) services. OpVista touts its AnyWave Optical Network as an easy and cost-effective means to transform existing infrastructure into Carrier Ethernet-ready networks.

"The completion of this core capacity upgrade enables Cox Communications to provide enhanced, high-speed services with faster turn-up of services throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island. We have a network that can respond to customer needs today and in the future, whatever services they might require," says Chris Saunders, director of network technology for Cox Communications New England.

Demand among businesses and consumers for new high-bandwidth services such as video and high-definition TV (HDTV) is growing rapidly. Anticipating this demand, Cox Communications has upgraded its core network in Connecticut and Rhode Island with the OpVista2000 Intelligent Optical Transport system, a platform that supports point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, linear, ring, and mesh topologies.

According to OpVista, the AnyWave Optical Network is designed to help service providers boost network capacity to meet end-user demand for high-bandwidth services, without infrastructure changes. With its patented spectral efficiency and optical multicast capability, the OpVista2000, part of the AnyWave Optical Network, can match capacity to new revenue opportunities, as well as provide quick and cost-effective service turn-up, minimizing operating expenses.

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