Vtesse News

1st May 2007, Hertford, UK

Vtesse Networks www.vtesse.com today announced that it’s private Enterprise Optical Networking Designs are now capable of incorporating the latest implementations of the industry standard specification G.709, commonly called Optical Transport Network OTN across 2.7 OTU1, 10.7 OTU2 and  43 OTU3 Gigabit optical channels.

OTN is a next-generation, industry-standard protocol providing an efficient and interoperable way to multiplex services onto optical light paths allowing different traffic types—including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, IP, GFP, digital video, as well as SONET/SDH to be multiplexed into a single Optical Transport Unit OTU frame. The technology overcomes one of the fundamental limitations of traditional Wave Division Multiplexing systems which cause individual wavelengths to be dedicated to individual protocols, often leading to sub-optimal utilisation of capacity, particularly in multi-protocol private Enterprise networks.

OTN also provides more effective optical network management.  Since the protocol allows for full performance-monitoring of all the multi-service traffic mentioned above, it is ideal for carrying the Fibre Channel and 10 Gigabit Ethernet traffic now commonly demanded by users of private optical networks.

Vtesse offers OTN capability on all of its Enterprise Optical Network designs.