White Papers

White Papers & Technical Solutions

Wayside Management

PacketLight networks significantly simplifies managing the third-party appliances through its in-band management capabilities utilizing optical supervisory channel (OSC channel) which is a built-in feature in all PacketLight products.

Passive vs. Active Solutions

There are two main methods of building CWDM/DWDM backbone network. In an “Active solution” CWDM/DWDM infrastructure is built from transponders and muxponders providing full optical demarcation point agnostic to the routers, switches and ADMs within the network.

OTN Solutions

Optical Transport Network (OTN) has evolved over the last few years to be the preferred technology for building DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) back-bone and long distance optical networks for carriers.

WDM for Data Centers

PacketLight’s compact 1U WDM solutions are ideal for data centers to meet the customer demands placed on their services.

PacketLight's Muxponder Capabilities

This white paper explores ways of meeting the challenges and getting the most out of the fiber infrastructure without the need of adding additional fibers or getting into vast expenses.

Single Fiber Solutions

PacketLight provides both active and passive solutions for single fiber transmission. The solutions range from 4 services up to 8 services using either CWDM or DWDM technology.

PacketLight products maximizing multimode fiber

This white paper discusses the possibility of extending the MM fiber capability to up to 2km with PacketLight’s WDM product suite.

Facility Protection Methods

Explore how WDM can be protected via multiple ways.

Upgrade CWDM to 10Gb

With PacketLight's WDM equipment, a customer can start with 8 CWDM wavelengths but then grow by introducing DWDM over its CWDM network.

Storage over SDH

In this paper, we review the business case and implementation aspects for carriers and enterprises to use the SONET/SDH as the WAN between SAN islands.

PacketLight EMS

This White paper explains how PacketLight’s product suite integrates with the RADView-EMS.

PacketLight/Sanrad Solution

The SANRAD V-STOR together with PacketLight PL-400 provides an affordable yet complete business continuity solution for server consolidation projects.