ROADM & Add/Drop Modules ROADMs for Optical Cross Connect
Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) 1x9 (PDF, 0.22 MB)
JDSU's Agile Optical Switch family provides the broadest portfolio of ROADM solutions designed to match the requirements of major market segments. They are the building blocks of Agile Optical Networks and provide the flexibility to remotely reconfigure any or all wavelengths, thereby reducing time-to-service, simplifying the network and streamlining planning and management. This results in significant Opex and Capex reductions and faster time to revenue. In addition, they enable the cost effective creation and deployment of more complex network architectures.
The Wavelength Selective Switch is an N-port module composed of a hermetically sealed optics block, control electronics and OCM. The optics block is based on the highly successful free space optics platform developed for the Wavelength Blockers, hence maintaining a common platform solution while evolving to the WSS. The OCM is based on JDSU controlled PLC technology providing a secure supply of low cost, per channel power and wavelength monitoring capability which is ideal for channel identification and tracking.
The WSS is used to dynamically attenuate, block switch and route wavelengths independently. Any wavelength/wavelengths can be routed from any port/ports to any other port/ports in any order, resulting in a colorless solution, that is highly flexible and requires no pre-planning. With the addition of the OCM functionality the WSS can provide closed loop control using JDSU software or can provide the flexibility for OCM data acquisition by the customer for use in the customer’s network management software. The WSS combined with OCM provides higher level integration resulting in lower monitoring cost and reduced space requirements at a system level all within the same form factor as the current 1x9 WSS.
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