Jul 22 2010
Enablence Technologies announced that it is delivering its Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) products to a tier-1 customer for application in the latter’s Metro Optical Transport Network System.
Enablence Photonic-Integrated-Circuits
The global tier-1 customer is using the PIC products to decrease the space requirements and consumption of power, while attaining a maximum of 120 Gbps capacity for each card. The PIC technology helped the customer in developing advanced high-capacity metro transport system to support operators who manage bandwidth-heavy services. In addition, the technology reduces operator costs by offering features such as energy-efficiency, easy maintenance, and space saving.
The PIC technology has been developed based on Enablence’s Planar Lightwave Circuitry (PLC), which combines many high-speed components into one optical chip. It involves over 15 wafer processing layers that decreased numerous optical parts into a single chip. The PIC is a vital component for a metro optical network system to help developers attain fast service rollouts, while coping with the high traffic.
The Chief Executive Officer of Enablence Technologies, Tim Thorsteinson, stated that the success of PIC shows that their Optical Components and Subsystems division is continuing to set the benchmark for integration of optical transport and photonics.