Lambda Driver solution

The Lambda Driver® solution consists of multi-functional, compact modular Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) systems that can create up to 32 independent virtual fiber optic links over a single pair of fibers over distances of up to 100 km. The Lambda Driver® systems are targeted for carriers’ central offices or multi-tenant office buildings and are ideally suited for MAN networks as well as large enterprise and Access networks.

The product supports different network topologies such as PTP, Linear OADM and Ring.
The Lambda Driver® solution operates in a DWDM (ITU Grid channels spacing) and CWDM (20 nm channels spacing) technology. Each data stream can handle rates from 10 Mbps up to 2.5 Gbps. The systems support upgrade to 10 Gbps services.


Chassis
LD400/LD800/1600 are 19-inch rack mountable chassis with modular architecture hosting different Mux/DeMux modules with 4, 8, 16 and 32 channels or OADM modules starting from single channel up to any number and mix of channels. Such flexibility offers a lower initial cost to service providers, allowing for fewer channels units at start, and ensuring simple system upgrades or future network re-configurations.


In order to provide maximum system reliability, the systems have a redundant power supplies option.
LD1600 is 11.5U high with 16 general slots for transponders, OADMs , Muxs and 1+1 redundancy modules and 6 general slots for 16/32 channels Muxs and 2 reserve slots for 2 management cards (redundancy).
LD800 is 4.5U high with 11 general slots for transponders, LD800 size modules (OADMs , Muxs and 1+1 redundancy modules) and 1 reserve slot for Management.
LD400 is 2U high with 5 general slots for transponders, LD800 size modules (OADMs Muxs and 1+1 redundancy modules) and 1 reserve slot for Management.

Transponders
The transponders are single slot modules that provide an interface between the WDM system and single channel access port. Transponders are fully independent of the other channels and transparently support all data centric protocols, enabling service providers to mix different protocols:

Enterprise markets:
• Fast Ethernet 125 Mbps
• Gigabit Ethernet 1.25 Mbps
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDDI (125 Mbps)
Carrier markets:
• SONET/SDH/ATM OC-1 to OC-48 and STM-1 to STM-16
Storage markets:
• Fiber channel: 133 Mbps, 266 Mbps, 531 Mbps,1.062 Gbps, 2.125 Gbps
• FICON (IBM Proprietary): 1.0625 Gbps, FICON Express 2.125 Gbps
• ESCON: 200 Mbps
• ETR/CLO (IBM Proprietary): 16 Mbps
Video markets:
• SDI “D1 video” , 270 Mbps
• DV6000 2.38 Gbps
• HDTV 1.483/1.4835 Gbps