May 16, 2008

Salira Intros Multi-Wavelength PON System

Salira Systems announced that it will unveil the industry’s most flexible and cost-effective multi-wavelength EPON solution at the Cable Show in New Orleans. Known as MW-PON, the new solution enables carriers and operators to quadruple the bandwidth capacity of existing fiber networks. Salira’s solution uses an elegant implementation of Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing (CWDM) to increase bandwidth capacity dramatically without any upgrades to the outside plant.

“Our goal in designing this product was to allow for maximum flexibility as it relates to deployment topology,” commented Jeff Stribling, VP Marketing and Customer Service for Salira. “Salira’s solution increases the bandwidth capacity of a single fiber strand by a factor of four. This enables carriers and operators to offer individual service level agreements with extremely high-bandwidth, or to increase the end-user density reachable on a single fiber.”

Salira’s MW-PON increases the bandwidth capacity from 1 Gbps to 4 Gbps for each PON link. Traffic is carried over four wavelengths, thereby quadrupling bandwidth that can be transmitted over a single fiber optic cable. Moreover, MW-PON’s bandwidth capacity is symmetric, meaning that end-users can upload data at the same enhanced speeds.

Salira uses SFP modules on the CPE side to allow service providers to re-assign equipment easily as conditions change. Unlike DWDM solutions that are costly to implement and change, Salira’s cost-effective MW-PON solution gives operators the ability to easily re-assign equipment at both the head end and at the customer premises for maximum flexibility.

Salira’s products are based on the IEEE 802.3ah protocols for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPON). Salira was the first EPON equipment provider to attain MEF-9 and MEF-14 certification status for its Carrier Ethernet services. The company’s EPON platform is ideally-suited for the high-speed transmission of voice and data – the most critical applications for business customers. Salira is also working with service providers worldwide to deliver IPTV, High Speed Internet Access and VoIP to consumers, all while driving cost out of the network

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