Enablence Technologies wins major bid from ZTE
2008-11-03 12:31 ET - News Release
Mr. Arvind Chhatbar reports
ENABLENCE SELECTED BY ZTE FOR MAJORITY OF ITS ROADM REQUIREMENTS
Enablence Technologies Inc. has won a major bid from China's ZTE Corp., one of the first and now largest telecommunications enterprises in China. Under this arrangement, Enablence will be supplying its industry-leading Planar Lightwave circuit-based (PLC), reconfigurable, optical, add-drop multiplexers (ROADM) and its PLC-based Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) products.
Enablence's iROADTM provides a flexible, integrated solution for multichannel ROADM, with power monitoring and automatic channel balancing at low-cost, small-size and low-power dissipation. It allows carriers to switch traffic and dynamically reconfigure networks to match the changing bandwidth needs of different customers. Enablence's ROADM makes this traffic switch automatically and remotely, thus reducing operating expenses for carriers. ZTE has chosen Enablence iROADTM solutions due to its high performance. This product will allow telecommunication service providers to quickly increase services to their customers and will therefore result in significant revenue generation.
The Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) is commonly used in optical networks to combine a large number of wavelengths into a single optical fibre. Enablence's AWG come in colourless and polarization maintaining options, and can combine as many as 80 wavelengths into a single fibre.
"Enablence has been a leading supplier for Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for the European and North American markets for many years. This win from a major Chinese equipment manufacturer is very significant for us, as it is a further indication of our strong customer focus and competitive position in the global marketplace," said Arvind Chhatbar, chief executive officer of Enablence.
