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November 01, 2011

Optelian Releases 8-Port Multi-Protocol Transponder

Optelian (News - Alert) has unveiled its much awaited RGN-8010 8-port transponder/regenerator card for the LightGAIN optical networking system.

This new regenerator card can be an ideal set for extending the optical network system reach, and for wavelength conversion in CWDM and DWDM applications.

According to the company officials, this new transponder card is low in latency and poses new features to enhance the LightGAIN optical networking system. It can also be configured as a quad transponder, eight regenerators or any combination of these functions.

This unit currently supports up to eight SFP or SFP+ ports in a 1-wide card, doubling the existing port count to save shelf space. The card can carry data rates from 10 Mb/s to 10.7 Gb/s with the usage of enhanced small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) transceiver, as well as the standard SFP transceiver.

It even promises to offer the most comprehensive protocol support as a future-proof card and helps network operators to lock the data rate or protocol on a port to their client's service.

Dave Mills (News - Alert), vice president of sales at Optelian, said that Optelian's new transponder card provides more versatility and cost savings to network operators.

"With such a wide range of data rates as well as offering more ports per card, the card can be used in more applications thereby reducing the number of different cards a network operator has to stock. With more ports per card, it provides cost savings in addition to providing network operators more control over the services they are offering," Mills added.

In addition, the RGN-8010 offers Optelian's PRBS test solution where cards can be set up as pseudo-random binary sequence generators and detectors to validate connections between endpoints across the network.

Optelian will be featuring its LightGAIN system in its booth during TelcoTV 2011, October 25 - 27.


Jyothi Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jyothi's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin
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