WCA March 2015

Industry news

High-density data

Optowiz is to launch its high-density bi-directional HD-SFP in six wavelengths, at data transmission speeds of up to 6.1Gbps over a one-core single-mode fibre. Making this high-density SFP available in the North American markets, Optowiz, based in Korea, is starting its marketing campaign with a USA partner. Optowiz CEO Dr KJ Yang said that each 20nm CWDM wavelength is divided for three bi-directional channel groups, yielding six Tx and Rx channels, and that these six channels over CWDM wavelengths of 1.6nm spacing effectively gives a total of 96 data transmission channels. The 6WL HD-SFP for single core or double core fibre duplex has already been deployed in the field. “The 96 channel HD-SFP for bi-directional transmission at 6.1Gbps will be available during the first quarter 2015 and Telecordia GR-468-CORE testing was successfully completed,” Dr Yang added.

❍ Optowiz – ready to start its marketing campaign with an American partner. Photograph courtesy of Optowiz

Optwiz – South Korea Website : www.optowiz.com

Japan,” said Machifumi Kashiwagi, vice president of product management at KVH. “As part of an ongoing effort, we are continuously adding new routes to increase our network presence and to offer carrier diversity to customers who currently rely on a limited number of service providers in Japan.” KVH Co Ltd – Japan Website : www.kvhasia.com Improving backhaul connecting Tokyo and Osaka

KVH Co Ltd has announced a new backhaul service in Japan to connect the Shima cable landing station with Tokyo and Osaka, through KVH’s ethernet backbone network. This new backhaul service, commercially available from 15 th December 2014, will be offered in either 10Gbps or 100Gbps and augments KVH’s existing portfolio of backhaul services from Chikura and Toyohashi. Through KVH’s extensive domestic network, customers can extend these backhauls to reach 60+ major POPs and data centres across Japan. Shima is the landing station for major submarine cable systems such as EAC, AJC, PC-1, Japan-US and C2C. With the evolution of subsea capacity moving to 100Gbps levels, there is strong demand in Japan for high-speed connectivity. KVH’s backhaul service addresses this demand, and targets global service providers and carriers who wish to connect subsea capacity to key regions in Japan. “With this new backhaul solution, along with our existing Chikura and Toyohashi backhauls, we now have direct access to all the major submarine cables networks to

❍ The new service connecting the Shima cable landing station with Tokyo and Osaka in Japan

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