Agility Communications' Widely Tunable Laser selected by Siemens ICN for Next-Generation optical transmission system

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, July 11, 2003

Agility Communications announced that Siemens Information and Communications Networks (ICN) has chosen the Agility 3105/3106 CW Widely Tunable Laser Assembly (TLA), a high-powered 10-mW Widely Tunable Laser that can rapidly tune to all channels in C-band/L-band, for use in its newest transponder card for optical data transmission. Siemens ICN, the largest telecommunications equipment supplier in Germany and one of the top suppliers worldwide, selected Agility's Single Chip, 10-mW Widely Tunable Laser as a component in its core product line, the Siemens' SURPASS hiT 75xx-er Series for Next-Generation Optics.

The new transponder card, introduced this year at CeBiT, one of the world's most important telecommunications trade shows, supports Siemens' multifunctional DWDM system with modular and scalable architecture which enables it to be deployed in applications ranging from regional to ultra-long haul. Prior to the first commercially viable, solid-state widely tunable laser from Agility, transponder cards offered only fixed wavelength technology. Now, however, a single Agility tunable laser can be used to tune all C/L- band channels for network expansion and repair replacements, saving carriers operation and inventory management costs and enabling them to offer additional services over available wavelengths.