Product FAQ
Q: What are the broad categories within Optelian’s product family?
A: Optelian offers active and passive 2 and 3-channel WDM products, active and passive coarse wave division multiplexing (CWDM) products, and active and passive dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) products. The passive products are used when and where no wavelength conversion or transponder function is required. The active products can convert from 1310nm, and in some instances 850nm, to the appropriate ITU grid CWDM or DWDM wavelength. Optelian also offers reach extension products that perform the O-E-O conversion of a wavelength and regenerate, reshape, and retime (3R functionality). In addition Optelian offers fiber jumpers and connectors as well as optical light sources, power meters and kits to inspect and clean fiber connector end faces.
Q: Will your active LightGAIN cards work with my circuit?
A: The LightGAIN active RGN cards come in a multitude of configurations tailored for circuits with data rates between 45Mbps and 11.3Gbps using 2R and 3R regeneration techniques and in most cases the cards are protocol independent. These space-efficient cards fit in the Optelian 219 and 519 shelves.
Q: What protocols do your active cards work with?
A: The LightGAIN RGN-2xx and RGN-3xx series cards are protocol independent cards that sense the incoming data rate and lock onto the incoming signals. This allows the cards to regenerate or convert the wavelength of any signal protocol with a data rate between 45Mbps and 2.7Gbps. The LightGAIN RGN-10Gxx cards are configurable to set the desired data rates for LAN/WAN protocols, 10Gbps Ethernet, OC-192, and 10Gbps Fiber Channel with or without Forward Error Correction where applicable.
Q: Do you offer transponder cards that convert a wavelength from 1310nm to a specific ITU grid wavelength for transmission on a CWDM or DWDM system?
A: Yes the Optelian LightGAIN RGN-2xx and RGN-3xx cards are ideally suited for this purpose.
Q: Do you offer any tunable transmitter products?
A Yes, the RGN-10GXT is tunable across 89 wavelengths (50Ghz spacing) in the DWDM (full C-band) wavelength range. It offers 3R operation in the bit rate range of 9.953 to 11.3 Gbps.
Q: Do you have a similar tunable product in the lower bit rate ranges?
A: Yes, Optelian will be releasing in early 2008 a fully tunable product in the range of 10Mbps to 2.7Gbps.
Q: Are your cassettes LGX® compatible?
A- Yes. All of our cassettes can be installed into a Lucent LGX® compatible fiber panel. If an LGX® style panel is not available or not usable, the LightGAIN CMS series mounting solutions can be used in a variety of applications to suit your needs. They have 40dB of adjacent channel isolation.
Q: Do you offer products that are hardened for use in extreme temperature environments?
A: Yes. Most of the Optelian product offering is “hardened” to perform to specifications in environments ranging from -40 deg C to +65 deg C.
Q: Does your DWDM system have amplification and dispersion compensation?
A: Yes, Optelian’s 40-channel DWDM system has an optional erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and a dispersion compensation module based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) technology.
Q: Do your active systems have management capabilities?
A: The MGT-100 card, available in September 2007, will allow remote management of the OMS-series shelves. With its ease of use and variety of interfaces including TL1, SNMP, Web based interface and command line interface (CLI) the MGT-100 adds a greater degree of flexibility to the LightGAIN series of products.
Q: Does your equipment offer protection switching?
A: The PPM-600 card will be available in September 2007 and features path protection switching in the event of fiber cut. This card will work with any of the Optelian RGN series of cards.
Q: Does Optelian offer any FTTx products for triple play/CATV-type deployments?
A- Yes. Optelian offers a variety of splitters and WDM couplers for use in FTTx deployments. The LightGAIN series of splitters come in 1x4, 1x8, 1x16, 1x32, and 1x64 varieties with APC SC and PC LC connectors. The LightGAIN series of WDM couplers offers a wide range of applications allowing the grooming of 1310nm, 1490nm and 1550nm signals.