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Dell’Oro Group has released a new report that indicates 2011 was another good year for DWDM. According to the market research firm’s latest Optical Transport report, 2011 worldwide DWDM equipment market revenues grew 19% year over year to reach $7.3 billion.

The good times should continue to roll in 2012, according to the report’s author.

“Demand for 40- and 100-Gbps transmission is driving DWDM sales to new highs,” commented Jimmy Yu, vice president of optical transport research at Dell’Oro Group. “The total DWDM market, which includes both metro and long-haul applications, will likely maintain strong growth in 2012. We believe the total DWDM market is on a path to surpass the revenue levels reached back in 2000, when the DWDM market peaked at $7.7 billion. We’re forecasting the total DWDM market to reach $8.0 billion in 2012.”

Dell’Oro’s research indicates the DWDM market grew across all the regions of the world, with North America accounting for the highest revenue. The combined market for 40-Gbps and 100-Gbps DWDM grew more than 60% and accounted for nearly one-third of all 2011 revenue.

Huawei finished the year as the market share leader, followed by Ciena and Alcatel-Lucent.

Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: VTSS), a leading provider of advanced IC solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks, today announced its latest laser and modulator driver, the VSC7982-40. Targeted at high bandwidth applications in SONET, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel networks, the four-channel device can support emerging 40G and 100G optical networks, ideal as building blocks for service providers upgrading networks to offer premium data services to subscribers.

While some Enterprise networks are directly upgrading from 10G to 100G Ethernet support, the 40G interface is seen as a necessary stepping stone to 100G in the public-network environment from both a cost and component availability perspective, with fewer board-level and semiconductor components available to support direct 100G links today. In fact, a recent study in Lightwave indicates that most metro and long-haul service providers began upgrades for backbones in 2010 and 2011 based on existing components for 40G line cards.

The new 4 x 10G VSC7982-40 leverages the IP of Vitesse's popular single-channel 10G laser driver and modulator (VSC7982) and offers unprecedented integration by incorporating bias transistors. The device is highly flexible and agnostic to communication protocol and laser type. In addition to bias T's, the 3.3V VSC7982-40 integrates AC coupling capacitors, significantly reducing the bill of materials in typical designs.

"Vitesse's new VSC7982-40 quad driver builds on a reliable, field-proven architecture. With hundreds of thousands of single-channel devices deployed worldwide, Vitesse continues to innovate for higher bandwidth, higher capacity Ethernet networks," said Aditi Vaghashia, product marketing at Vitesse. "Working closely with global Tier 1 leaders in 40G optics, we're able to bring to the market a solution that OEMs in all market sectors can leverage."

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Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that Fibrecomm Network (M) Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia’s leading network carrier, is expanding its network infrastructure using an intelligent Ciena solution featuring advanced optical technologies that include 40G, OTN switching and directionless ROADMs. Deployment began in December and already includes several live network segments.

Key Facts:

    Fibrecomm offers a focused range of connectivity and application services designed to cater the needs of service providers, including wavelength, bandwidth, IP, Ethernet and colocation and project management and consultancy services. Fibrecomm’s backbone network expansion, spans across Peninsula Malaysia and East Malaysia - Sabah to connect the northern and southern portions of the network.
    With this network expansion, Fibrecomm becomes the first network operator in Southeast Asia to integrate Optical Transport Network (OTN) switching and directionless ROADM technology into its core long haul network infrastructure.
    These advanced optical technologies, combined with Ciena’s WaveLogic™ coherent technology, add significant bandwidth scalability, reliability and intelligence to Fibrecomm’s network infrastructure, allowing the carrier to rapidly offer 40G, OTN switching, and – in the near future – 100G-based services.
    Fibrecomm is deploying Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, which integrates advanced coherent optics, automated OTN, packet and SONET/SDH switching, control plane, and unified network management to help network operators scale, manage, and differentiate services. Fibrecomm will also deploy the 6100 Multiservice Optical Platform for aggregation of lower speed SDH traffic.
    By deploying Ciena’s 40G solution using WaveLogic coherent technology, Fibrecomm is able to cost-effectively add significant network capacity without the need for a major network redesign, while ensuring the ability to seamlessly add 100G wavelengths to the network to meet future bandwidth demands.
    Intelligence in Ciena’s WaveLogic chipset greatly simplifies coherent deployments, allowing Fibrecomm to deploy the 40G solution without the requirement for fiber characterization or network reengineering.
    Project rollout and deployment of this network enhancement is jointly managed by Fibrecomm and Formis, a regional Ciena BizConnect partner based in Malaysia.

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Cisco announced the successful demonstration and validation of its coherent 100 Gigabit (100G) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) solution exceeding 3,000 km in reach, without the need for complex Raman optical amplification technology or signal regeneration signals.  This distance is 50 percent further than any non-Raman alternative solution on the market today.

By eliminating the need for Raman amplification, regeneration and dispersion compensation, carriers can add 100G services on top of existing infrastructures originally designed for 10G technology, providing better investment protection and simplifying network upgrades. The Cisco solution has been tested at a number of service providers and research networks, including US Signal. The performance was also validated by EANTC, the European Advanced Network Test Center.

The Cisco optical solution also demonstrates the ability to reach transmission rates up to 400 Gbps and ultimately up to one Tbps. Networks engineered to meet 100Gbps requirements will be able to be upgraded in service without affecting existing traffic.

Highlights/Key Facts

    The Cisco coherent DWDM solution is capable of reaching distances up to 3,000 km without the need for expensive Raman optical amplifiers or regeneration. The performance was independently validated by EANTC.
    The technology demonstration provides a roadmap up to 400 Gbps and up to one Tbps rates using the same advanced signal processing technology acquired in 2010 from Cisco’s acquisition of CoreOptics. Networks engineered to meet 100Gbps requirements will be able to be upgraded to higher data rates without affecting existing traffic.
    The 100G Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) can support 42 100G wavelengths in a single bay, nearly three times the density of competing solutions.
    The Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP is a key component in the industry’s most comprehensive 100 gigabit solution, including the Cisco CRS-3 for the network core, the Cisco ASR 9000 Series for the network edge, and the Nexus 7000 for the data center.
    The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2010-2015 projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4th a Zettabyte, by 2015. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times all the traffic traversing IP NGNs in 2008.
    Light Reading, the leading online publication for the global telecom industry, recently completed the world’s first publicly available test of an end-to-end cloud services infrastructure for performance, security and management. The test, conducted by EANTC, covered all aspects of Cisco’s CloudVerse solution, from the data center through the access and core network, including the ability to offer high security and priority for different customers’ traffic and the ability to handle and scale both business and consumer applications.

    Bill Gartner, VP/GM Optical Transport Business Unit, Cisco

“Service providers around the globe see the need to prepare for the next-generation Internet and facilitate an increasing demand for video, collaboration, and distributed computing.  These successful demonstrations are a testament to Cisco’s commitment to leading the industry in optical technology, both at 100G and beyond.”

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