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Our optical networking solutions are designed to provide metropolitan, regional and long-haul, high-capacity transport and switching of data,
voice and multimedia communications signals. These solutions include photonic Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing, or DWDM,
transmission solutions, synchronous optical transmission solutions, optical switching solutions and network management and intelligence
software. We also offer our customers a variety of related professional services. Our solutions include the following:
Our Optical Networks solutions enable customers to enhance and transform their networks towards a scalable and reliable network for
delivering diverse high speed data and voice communication services. Such network transformation is expected to increase deployment of
managed broadband services, such as:
In addition, in February 2004, we announced strategic alliances with Calix Networks, Inc., ECI Telecom Ltd. and KEYMILE AG that will
expand our broadband networking solutions portfolio and enable our service provider customers to deliver a new set of emerging broadband
services to their enterprise and residential end-users.
Product development
We are focused on developing next generation optical networking systems, including the evolution of our next generation SONET/SDH
systems, our metro DWDM systems and our optical long-haul line and terminal solutions. In 2003, we:
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• Our photonic networking DWDM solutions allow multiple light wave signals to be transmitted on the same fiber optic strand
simultaneously by using different wavelengths of light to distinguish specific signals, thereby increasing the capacity and flexibility
of a network. Our long-haul DWDM line systems span distances up to 2,000 kilometers and our metro DWDM series provides
networking solutions within a city or region for up to 350 kilometres.
• Our synchronous optical transmission systems use traditional optical standards, including the Synchronous Optical Network, or
SONET, standard, which is the most common standard in the United States and Canada and some countries in the Asia Pacific
region, and the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, or SDH, standard, which is the most common standard in EMEA and many other
countries. Our synchronous next-generation SONET/SDH solutions comprise multi-service optical platforms that integrate diverse
protocols and technologies to deliver services over a cost effective, scalable and reliable converged services network.
• Our optical switching solutions enable communication signals in optical fibers to be selectively directed or “switched” from one
network circuit to another.
• Our network management software and intelligence solutions are designed to give our customers the ability to monitor and improve
the performance of their networks.
• Optical Ethernet solutions that combine the strengths of the Ethernet network computing protocol with those of optical
communications. Optical Ethernet solutions transport communications signals carrying Ethernet packets in the form of light waves
through fiber optic cables between locations within a city or between cities.
• Optical storage connectivity solutions, which allow the interconnection of data centers for the efficient preservation and sharing of
business-critical data to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Managed wavelength solutions, which offer multiple protocol and transmission speed networking capability to reliably interconnect
business sites.
• introduced an advanced metro optical network product, our Optical Multiservice Edge 6500, that enables the convergence of
multiple platforms onto a single platform, enabling reduced network costs and enhanced functionality;
• enhanced the capabilities of our existing metro optical network products to enable new storage area solutions that address emerging
enterprise business continuity requirements; and
• introduced a new long-haul product that utilizes photonic networking DWDM technology, which assists customers in lowering their
network costs by providing improved optical performance.