ATX Networks has introduced GigaWave, a next-generation digital optical gateway platform designed to expand the capacity of fibre access links between headends/hubs and outside plant facilities.
The Digital Link Extender 40 (DLX40) is the first announced product within the GigaWave platform.
The 1RU DLX supports two DLX40 modules, each of which enables cable companies to cost-effectively aggregate up to 40 wavelengths (80 wavelengths in total) across optical access links of up to 60 kilometres in length. The modular and futureproof GigaWave DLX provides cable operators with maximum flexibility by supporting Remote PHY (R-PHY) and Remote MACPHY (R-MACPHY) Distributed Access Architectures (DAA), as well as Passive Optical Network (PON), Small Cell/5G and enterprise business services.
The GigaWave DLX40, which is making its commercial debut at this week’s ANGA COM (Cologne, June 12 -14), also enables MSOs to leverage the advantages of digital optics over analogie, including transporting signals over longer distances, support for additional wavelengths and other benefits associated with deep fibre architectures.
“MSOs require innovative and disruptive broadband access technologies to respond to an increasingly competitive consumer and commercial enterprise market,” said Charlie Vogt, President and CEO of ATX Networks. “We are assisting our cable operator partners to evolve their linear analogue networks to IP-based, software-defined digital networks designed and architected to support full-duplex speeds of 10Gbps and higher. I think it’s safe to say, we have entered the Gigabit Era.”
The ATX GigaWave platform is technology agnostic and capable of supporting a variety of DWDM transport solutions across a number of fibre architectures, including non-redundant links and links longer than 100 kilometres. MSOs are deploying software-defined, distributed architectures to enable a variety of new services and increase network capacity.