Self-Aware Networks

As demand for bandwidth capacity and pressures on per-bit revenue grow, operators need to transform their infrastructures into high-performance yet cost-efficient systems. The most effective operators recognize that the days of optimizing different network layers piecemeal have passed. Today, they must evaluate and optimize networks as a whole, from the fiber and optical transport layers to packet and TDM switches. JDSU understands the value of networks with simplified and less-expensive upper layers through the added functionality of more robust, resilient, and reliable lower layers. And, we understand the bottom line: faster end-to-end service delivery that dramatically increases customer capture and reduces network churn.

As the world’s expert in ROADMs, JDSU led the industry in advancing agile optical networks, and now JDSU continues its tradition of collaborative innovation by enabling self-aware networks.

Agility

Building a more active photonic layer—implementing colorless, directionless, and contentionless qualities—means faster photonic restoration, easier load balancing, proactive maintenance switching, and cost-effective, practical transponder pre-deployment.

Reach

As the industry builds out 40 G and 100 G deployments, two technologies are essential: amplification and dispersion compensation. Increasingly, network designers will implement Raman and other advanced amplification technologies to maintain reach at significantly higher speeds and capacities. And, the growing use of coherent reception technology compensates for massive amounts of chromatic and polarization mode dispersion.

Efficiency

Reducing costly, redundant hardware, maximizing fiber capacity, and lowering OpEx are just some of the benefits of the self-aware network. Enabling a self-healing photonic layer means fewer packet and TDM switches. The ability to re-route immediately—and automatically—takes off the pressure of repairing damaged lines, giving operators the time and flexibility to cost-effectively implement repairs instead of reacting in costly emergency mode.

Economy

In self-aware networks, the photonic layer has moved up the value chain. Overall, bottom-line system costs are significantly lowered. Simplified upper network layers require less equipment as the burden of functionality pushes into the photonic layer. Existing fiber plant usage is optimized at higher speeds. Photonic restoration lessens truck rolls and maintains uptime, ensuring service agreement compliance.

Assurance

Advanced network infrastructure is more than fiber, transport components, and switches. From design through deployment, modular, cost-efficient communications test and measurement tools are critical components in the lab, the production floor, and the field. Another vital component is tested and trusted expertise that can properly evaluate data and make quality judgment calls on proposed and existing network configurations.

Products for Self-Aware Networks
	Modulators
	Optical Amplifiers
	Pump Lasers
	ROADM and Add/Drop Modules
	Transport Blades
	Tunable Transmission Modules