Optical Transport Solutions

Today’s competitive environment demands that service providers drive down the cost and complexity of their networks. By providing a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transport infrastructure that is flexible and scalable, the Alcatel 1696 Metrospan supports a wide variety of traffic types and changing customer demands.

Applications like triple play, video services, storage area network (SAN) extension, 3G mobile, and enterprise Ethernet create tremendous bandwidth needs in metro and regional networks. By utilising WDM, the 1696 Metrospan allows service providers to satisfy the growing need for bandwidth by maximising the capacity of their existing fiber infrastructure.

The 1696 Metrospan can cost-effectively match the initial bandwidth needs while providing different migration paths toward higher capacity according to the pace of the traffic growth. Service providers also require a WDM platform, such as the 1696 Metrospan, that will help them simplify network planning, accelerate wavelength provisioning and ease overall maintenance activities across metro and regional optical transport networks.