SOFTBANK Chooses MRV System for Its Japan ATM Network

Japanese telecommunications service provider SOFTBANK TELECOM (News - Alert) Corp. has chosen MRV Communications Fiber Driver optical multi-service platform as the basis for its Japan-wide ATM access network and has completed the deployment across the country.

 

MRV’s Fiber Driveroptical multi-service product line provides a full range of solutions, such as services demarcation, media conversion, signal repeating and fiber-optimization, including coarse and dense WDM capabilities.

 

Both managed and unmanaged solutions are available, including rack-mount, modular systems and desktop systems. The Fiber Driver line includes several families of products with the flexibility of hundreds of combinations and system options for any type of optical or copper technology, covering virtually every protocol used in networking today.

 

The flexible and modular architecture of the Fiber Driver chassis gives SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. an optical multi-service capability that will allow them to change the protocol, data rate or distance of their network links with minimal hardware changes. The versatility of the solution ensures the implementation will continue to produce ongoing savings in operating and capital expenditures as SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. progressively grows its market share in Japan and more circuits are deployed.

 

SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. built the Fiber Driver network using a unique bi-directional single-fiber capability that allowed the company to reduce its fiber needs overall and significantly reduce its operating expenditures from the beginning of the project.

 

The network includes more than several thousand Fiber Driver demarcation devices, and leverages the system’s link monitoring capabilities coupled with its Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) management framework for service level assurance.

 

“This network marks one of our largest installations worldwide with a tier-one carrier and demonstrates that the high-performance and feature-rich Fiber Driver platform can scale to serve the needs of very large networks,” said Noam Lotan, president and CEO of MRV Communications (News - Alert), in a statement. “SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp’s implementation of our Fiber Driver optical multi-service platform and bi-directional single fiber connections demonstrates the demand among carriers to have an easily manageable platform that gives the company the ability to dynamically offer new services to its subscribers.”

 

SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. commented on the network, “It is one of essential issues for a telecommunication carrier to reduce infrastructure cost. We greatly reduced fiber optic cost by implementing MRV Fiber Driver single-strand media converters in our network. These MRV products also have improved the provisioning of services. We are grateful to MRV and Nihon Cornet Technology (News - Alert) K.K. (Master Distributor in Japan) for working hard to provide faster delivery to meet our requirements during the early stages of implementation. Now, MRV media converters maintain stable operation thanks to local support provided by Nihon Cornet Technology K.K in Japan and MRV support in USA. We hope that MRV will continue to provide SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. with quick support and response.”

 

MRV Communications, Inc. is a provider of network equipment and services, and optical components. MRV’s networking business provides equipment used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service providers, and includes switches, routers, physical layer products and out-of-band management products as well as specialized networking products for aerospace, defense and other applications including voice and cellular communication.

 

MRV’s optical components business provides optical communications components for metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the-Premises applications, through its wholly owned subsidiary SourcePhotonics, Inc.