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For
Immediate Release:
Contact:
Jim Lewis
978-262-0049
AXSUN TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES REVOLUTIONARY
OPTICAL CHANNEL MONITOR PRODUCT
Billerica, MA, August 28, 2000 — AXSUN Technologies Inc., a manufacturer
of Agile Photonic Subsystems, today announced the first in a series
of product families based on its photonic hybrid integration platform.
In a footprint smaller than a business card, the AXSUN™ Optical
Channel Monitor (OCM) provides the performance of a laboratory
class optical spectrum analyzer. This breakthrough subsystem establishes
a new industry benchmark for performance and functional density,
consuming less than one-tenth the real estate of OCM solutions
based on bulk optics.
The AXSUN universal photonic integration packaging platform demonstrates
this dramatic improvement in functional density, cost and scalability
of manufacturing, while maintaining the highest level of performance.
The compact size of the AXSUN OCM empowers Optical Networking equipment
and service providers to embed this function within existing network
elements, which will allow wide-scale deployment of distributed
network monitoring in the metropolitan and core optical networks.
The AXSUN OCM monitors the signal integrity of optical networks
to facilitate network fault management and the routing of light
paths. Typical applications for the OCM include power balancing,
EDFA gain tilt monitoring, new system commissioning and transmitter
wavelength locking.
"The task of monitoring multiple optical channels becomes
increasingly difficult as optical networks expand in capacity and
complexity," stated
Dr. Dale Flanders, President and CEO of AXSUN Technologies "The
AXSUN OCM enables system and service providers to embed this critical
function within network elements, without consuming precious additional
real estate."
AXSUN Technologies will begin shipping samples of the OCM to select
customers in September, 2000, and plans full-scale production of
several optical monitor products in the first quarter of 2001.
The first of AXSUN's family of network monitoring products will
be demonstrated at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
(Booth #116) in Denver, CO on August 28-30, 2000.
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About AXSUN Technologies
AXSUN Technologies, established in 1998, has developed a revolutionary photonic
packaging platform capable of integrating nearly any combination of optical
devices. The company applies this platform to the manufacture of a new class
of photonic subsystems that provide higher levels of performance to telecommunications
equipment manufacturers. The company's agile optical products are central
to the transformation of the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) infrastructure
from an inflexible, constrained network to one that is agile and programmable
at the optical layer. More information about AXSUN is available at www.axsun.com. |
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