Novera Optics Expands Korea Telecom Engagement

By Anuradha Shukla

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

Korea Telecom has launched a new deployment of DWDM PON technology from Novera Optics with advanced OAM (Operation, Administration and Maintenance) features.

 

In addition to supporting Korea Telecom’s broadband subscribers, the new deployment will increase the total number of Novera-supported Korea Telecom lines to more than 100,000.

 

Korea Telecom is deploying Novera Optics’ DWDM transport technologies for Internet and data services through Novera’s SpeedLIGHT platform.

Bernd Hesse, vice president of marketing and business development at Novera Optics believes Korea Telecom’s deployment of additional lines shows their confidence in their DWDM technology.

“In the last year and a half they have deployed over 100,000 lines over a SpeedLIGHT transport platform. During that period, our technology has proven its ability to provide Korea Telecom's customers with the bandwidth they need,” said Hesse in a press release.

“In addition, the platform is scalable and offers an easy upgrade path to meet their customers' needs in the future,” he concluded.

Through a single feeder fiber, SpeedLIGHT implements DWDM PON point-to-point bidirectional optical links providing Korea Telecom with an easy upgrade path, symmetrical bandwidth (downstream and upstream), and multiprotocol transparency for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) applications.

SpeedLIGHT is a transport platform for fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) deployments, which greatly improves the ability of service providers to deliver the bandwidth their customers need now and in the future.

The Platform eliminates the need for expensive, wavelength-specific optical network units (ONUs) and does away with the problems of bandwidth sharing, bandwidth upgrades, and mixed-service delivery on a passive optical network (PON) using Novera Optics Lambda-PON(TM) (Lambda-PON) DWDM FTTx technology.

Founded in 1999, Novera Optics has an office in Santa Clara, Calif., and a wholly owned subsidiary in Daejeon, South Korea. Novera Optics is focused on developing low-cost, high-performance optical access solutions to overcome the bandwidth bottlenecks in last-mile networks.