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Supporting the Networks of Today and Tomorrow
Optical switching is becoming an accepted and economically driven decision in today's networks. Properly designed and balanced with electrical switching, optical switching brings real operational savings through remote configuration of add/drop, and substantial equipment savings through optical bypass in grooming locations.
Polatis offers a number of solutions for network applications, including its highly flexible matrix switch technologies, and other bandwidth management products. These products provide support for reconfigurable OADM, whether single ring add/drop, or stacked ring interconnect, and can also be configured to scale to support carrier network migrations to ring-to-ring bypass, hub and full mesh configurations.
Polatis delivers the flexible optical core
Customers can leverage the flexibility of the DirectLight portfolio to meet a variety of carrier applications. A single optical switch technology can be used across an entire transport product portfolio - and across the network - providing cost advantages and simplifying system management. Not constrained by fixed channel plans, our optical transport solutions can be designed for client or line-side, TDM, DWDM or CWDM applications. Our solutions support both single and multimode Fibre Channel, IP and other native applications.
Our OEM Partners can choose from a variety of products & integration options, including:
Rack
mount systems: universal optical shelves for multi-platform strategies
or integration with GMPLS control plane systems
Optical
switch modules: a variety of module subsystem products for OEM integration
Custom
card-mount products: series of standard and fully custom card-mounted
optical switch systems
Other
Bandwidth management products — contact Network Sales
See products page for more
Physical Layer Connectivity for In-Network Applications
Router POP Optimization
Router cross-connect for port optimization, providing load balancing & resiliency through shared protection, while maximizing revenue generating ports.
Business Continuity and Enterprise IT
Fiber switcher in data/BCP centers for automated file recovery services; remote connectivity in enterprise networks for path diversity & recovery.
Optical Networking Transport
Realize operational savings and new services through dynamic optical add/drop capabilities in WDM, TDM transport networks.
Optical Networking Switching
Maintain wavelength/service integrity with optical bypass for MSPP and OXC grooming nodes, optimizing use of drop ports while maintaining remote reconfiguration.
Advanced Research & Defense Networks
Easy to use bandwidth routers for high speed photonic research networks, distributed supercomputing, and secure video, data and comm. networks.
Network Monitoring & Conditioning Systems
Intrusive and non-intrusive access to support: centralized access for remote fiber and network test devices, Layer 1 security/IDS devices, and network pre-conditioning nodes.