Optical Transport Solutions for MSO's

Multi System Operators such as CATV companies began placing fiber in their backbones a number of years ago. This proved adequate for growth in their video networks but with the offering of triple-play services (voice, data, and video) bandwidth demands have increased. MSOs have given incumbent local exchange carriers strong competition to traditional telecom offerings such as voice and data and have put together a strong triple-play package. Reach extension can help on particularly long fiber backbones. Technologies such as WDM, CWDM and DWDM allow MSO to quickly provide the additional bandwidth required to offer these services to customers.