OTDM to become a commercial reality

A presentation at ECOC 2002 will describe how transmission properties and high-speed switching technologies for 160Gbit/s OTDM systems can be cost-effective in point-to-point links.

At ECOC 2002 in Copenhagen Siemens ICN will describe how transmission properties and high-speed switching technologies presented for 160Gbit/s OTDM systems can be cost-effective in point-to-point link transmission and with the help of time-domain routing capabilities become a commercial reality.

The increasing demand for high bandwidth services over digital subscriber lines, the future deployment of high quality video services and the take-up of fibre to the home will lead to increased use of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) at 10Gbit/s and use of higher channel rate systems at 40 and 160Gbit/s, where cost effective.

Today, optical transmission systems are typically running at datarates of 2.5 or 10Gbit/s per channel.

Systems with a channel data rate of 40Gbit/s have already been announced as a product.

Potentially, next generation time division multiplexed (TDM) systems may run at 160Gbit/s line rate, which currently can only be achieved by employing optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) techniques.

There are two key criteria for 160Gbit/s OTDM systems to become a commercial reality.

First, they need to prove economically beneficial in point-to-point link transmission compared to state of the art 10 and 40Gbit/s systems.

Secondly, 160Gbit/s systems should comply with a flexible all-optical network and offer time-domain routing capabilities.

Siemens ICN will prove that 160Gbit/s transmission properties and switching technologies are enabling efficient point-to-point transmission and time-domain optical networking capabilities at 160Gbit/s.

The presentation will be held at ECOC on 12th September at 2:30pm in Auditorium A11.

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