Optical networker Lightscape Networks, a division of ECI Telecom (Quote), said it has shipped close to 1,000 elements of the XDM hybrid optical networking platform to customers worldwide.
Since the beginning of 2001, Lightscape Networks has added several significant customers, including Cable & Wireless, Globe Telecom, Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS), D2 Vodafone and ntl to its growing roster of clients deploying the XDM. The company's most recent customer win, Telia International Carrier, marks a major deployment of the XDM in U.S. metropolitan-area networks, officials said.
A January 2002 Morgan Stanley report, meantime, cited Lightscape Networks' XDM metro optical platform as the "finest converged product" in the metro DWDM and next-generation SONET/SDH market, Lightscape also said. Among other findings, the report concluded that next-generation SONET and metro DWDM equipment will converge as transport and service layers unify, allowing carriers to deploy the most cost-effective solution while eliminating complex network management systems, expensive optical interfaces and unnecessary network elements.
The XDM's single-architecture approach converges intelligent metro/regional DWDM optical networking capabilities, multiple SONET/SDH rings, digital cross connects (DXC), carrier-class Gigabit Ethernet and on-demand network provisioning within a single device. The XDM's unique "Build-as-you-Grow" architecture allows service providers to expand their networks gradually and steadily according to customer bandwidth and service demands. With this approach, carriers can utilize the various technologies and features of the XDM that their network requires while allowing them to make a smooth, in-service transition to alternate network topologies and services in a cost-effective manner.
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