Luxcore demonstrates its third generation pure optical switch at OFC

March 21, 2001
Mar. 20, 2001--This week at OFC, Luxcore (Atlanta, GA), a developer of pure optical internetworking systems, displayed its all-optical lambdaXchange, a third-generation photonic switch.

by Mardi Balgochian Scalise

This week at OFC, Luxcore (Atlanta, GA), a developer of pure optical internetworking systems, displayed its all-optical lambdaXchange, a third-generation photonic switch.

The lambdaXchange optical switching system uses all-optical wavelength conversion, eliminating the need for intermediate electrical conversions and regeneration within backbone transport networks.

Third generation optical switching systems eliminate OEO conversions in core optical networks. This means wavelength transmission, amplification, switching and regeneration will be performed entirely in the optical domain. It also integrates DWDM transmission with all-optical switching capabilities.

According to Gerald Ramdeen, CEO of Luxcore, the lambdaXchange enables network service providers to bring to market time-of-day routing, bandwidth on demand, and wavelength reuse. The third generation platform merges DWDM and switching, integrating all-optical wavelength conversion, photonic switching and add/drop and tunable DWDM transmission capabilities in a single platform.

The key element is all-optical wavelength conversion, the ability to take light at one frequency and create a new and different frequency carrying the same information to the next point in the network. Integration of this technology with optical switching makes Luxcore�s transparent wavelength switch bit-rate independent and protocol transparent to the traffic being carried.

See Luxcore�s lambdaXchange at booth #3474 at OFC, or visit www.luxcore.com for more information.

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