Ottawa, Canada—Tuesday, March 12, 2002 // BTI unveiled the optical networking industry's first independent Optical Link Subsystem (OLS) today, in response to the industry's urgent need for agile link technology that can keep pace with evolving networks and dynamic wavelength services being planned for by major service providers.
The OLS is a breakthrough solution that responds to the problem of older, proprietary, static link designs that Original Equipment Manufacturers continue to depend on, even with capabilities that are falling behind current Intelligent Optical Networks and costs that are prohibitively expensive. Metro, Regional and Long-haul networks today require much more cost effective link solutions with the ability to dynamically adapt to changes within the network, allowing Carriers to deliver on the promise of flexible optical services while achieving massive operational efficiencies.
BTI's managed Optical Link Subsystem addresses these requirements by integrating the company's own proprietary optical amplification, signal conditioning and newly developed performance monitoring technologies with best-in-breed products from industry leading technology partners, into an open integration subsystem platform. By incorporating standardized NMS interfaces and state of the art system control intelligence, BTI has designed and built a solution that speaks to the immediate needs of optical networking system vendors today.
"OLS defines a new market category, both for BTI as an emerging subsystem player and in the way system vendors will view our unique solution," says BTI president and CEO, Lance Laking. "What makes OLS such a winning proposition is that no one else has put this altogether before. OLS offers an integrated optical link platform in direct response to requirements faced by network equipment manufacturers and, in turn, their service provider customers."
"On one hand," says Laking, "network equipment manufacturers are now able to focus more exclusively on what they do best, enhancing their system capabilities and reducing costs. On the other, their service provider customers equally benefit from lower operating expenditures and faster, more flexible optical link provisioning."
OLS hones in on a critical area for system vendors of every description - the resources consumed by and investments made in the transport portion of their business that often burns anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of in-house design expenses. In short, OLS helps to minimize costs and offers system vendors a flexible "buy versus build" option. OLS also tackles speed-to-market issues by allowing system vendors to deliver product faster. By adding dynamic signal conditioning functionality to networks, OLS responds to one of the industry's last remaining networking challenges. In a nutshell, BTI provides a new standard of integrated optical subsystem sure to give network equipment manufacturers and service providers alike an extended lead on their rivals.
Technical specifications for the OLS include an ultra compact, carrier grade rack mount unit with hot swappable module slots that accept any combination of optional amplifier, signal conditioning, or performance monitoring circuit packs. It also offers an industry-leading density of up to 115 amplifier/signal conditioning modules per standard rack.
"OLS delivers to our customers - Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) - a network ready solution that offers significant cost savings and flexible reconfiguration benefits over the status quo," says Laking. "With its revolutionary integration platform, OLS offers new services and capabilities such as end-to-end wavelength provisioning and management, an ability to dynamically adapt to changes within a link, and circuit packs that can be mixed and matched to meet agile network requirements today and in the future. The bottom line: our customers are saying they like what they see and we can't get OLS to them fast enough."
BTI will be previewing the OLS at the Optical Fiber Conference in Anaheim, California, March 18 - 21. The company will also have a full team on hand, at booth #2441, Hall D, to explain and demonstrate the OLS. Further product specifics and OFC information is available on the BTI Web site at http://www.btiphotonics.com/
BTI has designed and builds the optical networking industry's first independent, managed Optical Link System. OLS addresses link requirements faced by network equipment manufacturers and their service provider customers alike as they assemble and deliver more flexible and dynamic Metro, Regional, and Long haul networks. BTI's solution combines standard network management interfaces with optical performance monitoring and a variety of optional amplifier and signal conditioning circuit packs in the industry's densest form factor. The OLS allows system vendors to focus on their core competency, reduces their costs and enhances their system capabilities. Service providers benefit from lower CAPEX and OPEX costs plus faster, more flexible optical link provisioning. With approximately 30 employees, BTI is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
For any additional information or assistance, please contact:
Chris Egner
Vice-President of Business Development & Sales
BTI Photonics
(613) 248-9154, ext. 102
mailto:media@btiphotonics.com
