Enablence Selected by ZTE for Majority of its ROADM Requirements

(Business News & Technology News, 12 Nov 2008)

Enablence Technologies has won a major contract from China's ZTE Corp., wherein Enablence will be supplying its industry leading Planar Lightwave Circuit- (PLC) based Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexers (ROADM) and its PLC-based Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) products.

Enablence's iROAD provides a flexible, integrated solution for multi- channel ROADMs with power monitoring and automatic channel balancing at low cost, small size and low power dissipation. It allows carriers to switch traffic and dynamically reconfigure networks to match the changing bandwidth needs of different customers. Enablence's ROADM makes this traffic switch automatically and remotely thus reducing operating expenses for carriers. ZTE has chosen Enablence iROAD solutions due to its high performance. These products will allow telecommunications service providers to quickly increase services to their customers and will therefore result in significant revenue generation.

The Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) is commonly used in optical networks to combine a large number of wavelengths into a single optical fiber. Enablence's AWGs come in colorless and polarization maintaining options, and can combine as many as 80 wavelengths into a single fiber. "Enablence has been a leading supplier for Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for the European and North American markets for many years. This win from a major Chinese equipment manufacturer is very significant for us as it is a further indication of our strong customer focus and competitive position in the global market place," says Arvind Chhatbar, CEO, Enablence.

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