MILPITAS, CA and SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - March 24, 2009) - JDSU (
NASDAQ:
JDSU) (
TSX:
JDU) today announced the industry's first monolithically integrated and
tunable optical transceiver. The JDSU tunable XFP transceiver is 85 percent
smaller than previous tunable products, allowing network equipment
manufacturers (NEMs) to pack more transceiver interfaces into a system or
to deploy smaller systems within a network node. This in turn opens up
valuable real estate for their service provider customers in network
central offices.
In addition, the tunable XFP transceiver will be the first pluggable
solution that service providers can deploy without fully populating line
cards, so that technicians can easily provision more transceivers to the
line card in the field as needed in a "pay-as-you-grow" fashion, without
affecting network performance.
The dramatically smaller size of the tunable XFP transceiver will also
reduce power dissipation by 60 percent, greatly reducing electrical and
cooling costs within network central offices.
JDSU began sampling the tunable XFP transceiver with customers in 2008 and
expects to ship the product in volume by summer of 2009.
As increased consumer use of online video, voice and data applications
continues to put demands on network capacity, NEMs and service providers
are under pressure to add optical solutions that can manage increased
bandwidth flexibly and cost effectively. Optical transceivers, such as the
tunable XFP transceiver, act as a key interface that convert optical
signals into electrical data as they exit dense wavelength division
multiplexer (DWDM) networks.
"It is quite an accomplishment that JDSU was able to create a tunable
solution and get all of the functionality into an XFP form factor," said
Daryl Inniss, vice president and practice leader of Communications
Components at Ovum. "The new JDSU tunable XFP transceiver could help system
vendors realize a wide range of benefits including increased density, lower
costs, and more flexible deployment options."
"The tunable transceiver market had not yet transitioned to pluggable
solutions because the technology breakthroughs hadn't happened -- until
now," said Alan Lowe, president of the Communications and Commercial
Optical Products business segment at JDSU. "We are engaged in twelve
designs with nine customers and have received very positive feedback. Many
of our top customers are already designing the JDSU tunable XFP transceiver
into their next generation systems."
Technology Highlights
JDSU achieved the dramatically smaller size of the new tunable XFP by
leveraging its functional integration product approach at the chip and
module level, meaning that size, cost, power efficiency and performance
were all factored into its creation. It contains important technology,
including:
-- JDSU photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology: This technology was
used to develop the Integrated Laser mach-Zehnder (ILMZ) tunable
transmitter -- the engine of the tunable XFP -- that monolithically
integrates a tunable laser, amplifier, and optical modulator on a single
chip small enough to fit on a tip of a finger. JDSU announced this
technology in 2007.
-- JDSU TOSA: The ILMZ was then housed in the world's smallest tunable
transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) package that JDSU announced in 2008.
JDSU plans to make the tunable TOSA available to the open market.
Customer Benefits
-- Dramatically smaller size: The 85 percent smaller size increases
density, allows NEMs to pack more interfaces on a line card, or make
smaller systems that take up less space in network central offices.
-- Pluggability: Allows service providers the flexibility to provision
more transceivers only as network bandwidth demands increase.
-- Lower power dissipation: The 60 percent less power dissipation
translates into lower electrical and cooling costs for service providers.
-- Tunability: Transceiver can be tuned as needed to support any
wavelength in optical networks, compared to fixed products that required
NEMs and service providers to predict demand by wavelength and hold
expensive wavelength specific inventory.
-- Remote reconfigurability: Reduces the need for truck rolls to
reconfigure or upgrade optical networks.
Tunable XFP Transceiver at OFC/NFOEC 2009
The JDSU tunable XFP transceiver will be demonstrated at JDSU Booth #2015
during the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and
the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) in San Diego, CA from
March 24 - 26, 2009.
About JDSU
JDSU (
NASDAQ:
JDSU) (
TSX:
JDU) enables broadband and optical innovation in
the communications, commercial and consumer markets. JDSU is the leading
provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical
products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and
network equipment manufacturers. JDSU is also a leading provider of
innovative optical solutions for medical/environmental instrumentation,
semiconductor processing, display, brand authentication, aerospace and
defense, and decorative applications. More information is available at
www.jdsu.com.
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