Ottawa, Canada—Saturday, January 1, 2005 // BTI Photonic Systems, the established leader in photonic layer Metro Connectivity-over-Fiber systems, today announced the release of the newest member of its Netstender™ product solutions. The Netstender™ 1030 is an industry leading carrier-managed solution delivering metro and regional optical connectivity for single and low channel count configurations.
The Netstender provides the key photonic layer functions for connectivity-over-fiber with amplification, signal conditioning, multiplexing and management in a carrier-grade, compact footprint platform. The 1U rack mountable shelf offers a customizable combination of active or passive plug-in circuit packs that integrate optical network building blocks onto one complete and managed platform. With its open architecture and industry standard management interfaces, the system is designed for ease of integration into existing network management systems.
With the introduction of the Netstender 1030, BTI provides customers with an integrated solution for true multi-vendor connectivity over fiber. The 1030 is an economical solution ideally suited to address single or low channel count configurations with the reliability and management of traditional optical transport systems.
“Our customers have indicated they are struggling with a gap in the market where a multi-vendor carrier grade solution is required to allow them to easily extend low channel count configurations and acquire new customers or add new services on the edge of their networks,” said Glenn Thurston, Vice President Marketing for BTI Photonic Systems. “With the Netstender 1030, BTI is filling this gap and delivering an industry leading benchmark for a carrier-grade photonic system”.
Key Netstender 1030 applications include:
1. SONET / SDH port extension – capitalizing on the large installed SONET infrastructure, the 1030 enables both system vendors and end customers to capitalize on their investment by adding new sites off spurs or adding service overlay on their existing fiber assets
2. Ring Applications – DWDM or SONET / SDH configurations where up to now reach, capacity or cost has been an issue
3. GbE port extension for Metro / Regional networks – for 1Gb/ 10Gb connectivity at ITU-T standard wavelengths – for less than 40% of the cost of transponder based solutions
“As optical networks move to address the metro edge bottleneck, photonic layer solutions are becoming an essential part of packet-based multi-service networks. Netstender delivers a complete, independent connectivity-over-fiber solution that empowers service providers with photonic layer functionality for connecting the services they need, when they need them,” said Thurston.
