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Perfect Eye! Nortel's WARP Chip and eDCO Optical Dispersion Correction Technology

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IDC
Published: April 2007
Product Code: R104-30143
Description
This document is about Perfect Eye! Nortel's WARP Chip and eDCO Optical Dispersion Correction Technology
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

IDC Opinion

In This Study

Methodology

Situation Overview

Introduction

Technology Positioning

Figure: Schematic Eye Diagrams of Uncompensated Optical Signal, Before and After Dispersion

Technology Life Cycle

Figure: Evolution of Fibre-Optic Line Capacity, 1980?2006

Faster Lasers

Dense Wave-Division Multiplexing

Dispersion Compensation

Figure: Conventional Fibre Optic Dispersion Management with Compensating Fibre Modules

Nortel's Novel Approach and eDCO Benchmarks

Figure: Mathematics of Optical Chromatic Dispersion - or Eye Closure

Figure: Nortel WARP Optical Dispersion ASIC

Figure: Optical Signal Eye Diagrams at 10Gbps with Nortel eDCO Processing

New Technology Drivers

Need for Bandwidth

Triple-Play Services

FTTX Deployment Options

Passive Optical Networks

Ethernet and GPON

Figure: Examples of FTTH Deployments in Japan and United States

FTTX Deployment Beginning in Earnest

Pricing Trends

Figure: Cost of a Fibre-to-the-Home Connection per Home, 2000-?2007 ($US)

Future Outlook

Market Impact

Figure: Comparison of Optical Network with and Without eDCO Compensation

What Does This Mean?

Expanded Optical Market

Optical Ethernet

Competition from Cisco

Wireless Backhaul

Improved Performance for Nortel

Toward All-Optical Networks

Essential Guidance

Strategies

Partners

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Related Research

Definitions

Methodology

Synopsis

Ordering and More Information
Price and Delivery Options



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