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18 Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2015
Industrynews
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.
Optwiz – South Korea
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High-density data
❍ Optowiz – ready to start its marketing campaign with an
American partner. Photograph courtesy of Optowiz
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 15th
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
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
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Improving backhaul connecting Tokyo and Osaka
❍ The new service connecting the Shima cable landing station with Tokyo and Osaka in
Japan