WDM/OTN for Carriers & ISPs
PacketLight empowers carriers and ISPs to deliver reliable, seamless, efficient, and secure connectivity across access, metro, and long-haul networks.
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, network infrastructure must be both adaptable and resilient to meet the increasing demands for high-capacity services like carrier Ethernet, MPLS, SONET/SDH, and video streaming. PacketLight's solutions are designed to enhance network performance by optimizing fiber utilization, ensuring flexibility for scalability, and integrating robust security measures.
Enhancing Network Infrastructure for Optimal Performance
The foundation of a robust network hinges on its ability to seamlessly adapt to diverse customer demands while maintaining security, efficiency, and manageability. Today's dynamically evolving digital landscape and the need to support high-capacity applications are driving network upgrades. Adding high-capacity services such as 100GbE, 400GbE, and 800GbE has become pivotal in meeting the growing requirements of modern connectivity.
Maximizing Fiber Utilization
Leveraging Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) plays an important role in the bid to streamline operations, optimize fiber capacity and minimize overhead costs. By transmitting up to 96 channels over existing fiber infrastructure, WDM networks not only maximize resource utilization but also eliminate the need for significant investments in new infrastructure.
As networks expand, accommodating ring and mesh topologies becomes essential for seamless connectivity and service delivery. PacketLight's Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) facilitates flexible wavelength routing, rapid service setup, and comprehensive documentation and monitoring of network services and wavelengths.
Network Flexibility for Scalability
PacketLight’s product suite boast carrier-class features and support multi-rate and multi-protocol services. Our equipment empowers seamless flexibility and scalability of the OTN/DWDM network without the need to replace existing infrastructure. Our disaggregated approach simplifies the introduction of 100G/200G/400G/800G alien wavelengths using PacketLight’s vendor-agnostic devices. PacketLight’s ROADM also supports flex-grid functionality, which enhances network optical spectrum flexibility and capacity.
Multi-service provisioning platforms (MSPP) play an important role in enabling carriers and ISPs to offer bundled services across transport, switching, and routing layers, substantially reducing service provisioning time. Integrating forward error correction (FEC) within the layer facilitates transport over longer distances with fewer regeneration sites, rendering the OTN layer as the most efficient and cost-effective MSPP over WDM infrastructure.
Network Efficiency
Network efficiency is enhanced through the convergence of traditional SONET/SDH and new data services over OTN within the WDM network. The OTN layer's design ensures effective mapping of different protocols and rates into a 100G/200G/400G uplink, delivering high bandwidth. Our solutions integrate OTN cross-connect and built-in add-drop multiplexer (ADM) mode in a 1U chassis and have low heat dissipation guaranteeing optimal efficiency at a comparatively low cost.
Network Security
Security remains paramount in today's interconnected landscape. PacketLight's cryptography solution offers robust GCM-AES-256 encryption on Layer-1 without compromising bandwidth. Certified to stringent standards including NIST FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria EAL2, this solution meets the requirements for securing GbE/10/40/100/400Gb Ethernet and Fibre Channel services, thereby adding substantial value to carrier services.
Network Reliability
Redundancy and protection mechanisms safeguard against network disruptions. With a steadfast commitment to service level agreements (SLA), our optical transport solutions are engineered to deliver uninterrupted service, ensuring peace of mind for operators and end-users alike.
PacketLight offers a number of solutions for enhancing network reliability. The ROADM provides fiber path restoration by ensuring there are at least two viable paths from any site to any site. Our non-intrusive OTDR enables monitoring the fiber infrastructure, including fast diagnostic and fault isolation of the link.
Network Cost-effectiveness
Cost-effectiveness is a cornerstone of PacketLight's offerings, with products designed for streamlined performance monitoring, diagnostics, and network management in a compact 1U form factor. Easy installation, rapid deployment, minimal rack space requirements, and low power consumption contribute significantly to reducing both operational and capital expenses, thereby ensuring a compelling return on investment (ROI).
