High Efficiency Multiplexing of Low-speed Wavelengths Allows Service Providers and Enterprises to more effectively scale Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) infrastructure by lowering the unit cost per transported bit, while maintaining full service transparency similar to an individual wavelength service. Ciena’s ONLINE Metro multiservice transport platform provides carrier-class solutions, in which ONWAVE service blades are plug-in modules offering highdensity, transparent aggregation of services onto networked wavelengths.

Ciena's 10G Sonet/SDH Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM) Card transparently combines up to four OC-48/STM-16 framed signals into an OC-192/STM-64 wavelength. Overhead transparency can be incrementally provisioned to allow client signal management and signaling to either be carried through
or terminated as standard Line Terminating Equipment (LTE). This enables applications such as direct router interconnect, or carriage of sub-tending Bi-directional Line Switched Rings (BLSR) traffic. Additionally, an on-board SONET switch matrix provides STS-1 granularity for grooming at POP hand-off points. Two 10G SONET/SDH ADM cards can be mated in a shelf to function as a linear or ring SONET node capable of providing 1+1 or BLSR/MS-SPRING overlaid sub-networks within a DWDM system.

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