OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- 12/04/08 --
Enablence Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ENA) ("Enablence"), a global leader in optical communications which provides Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) based products for Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP), metro and long haul markets is pleased to announce the addition of Enablence Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) with PLC-based optical transceivers, together with its traditional non-PLC based ONTs.
A transceiver is the most critical component in an ONT; it is a combination of transmitter and receiver in a single device and is used to convert optical signals to electrical signals, and vice versa, allowing bi-directional optical communication in fiber optic networks. These transceivers are typically built using an expensive assembly of traditional lenses, filters, and other sub-components. The PLC platform developed by Enablence combines all the same functionality onto a silicon chip platform, using automated processes similar to those used to make standard electronic chips. Enablence is the first company that has integrated PLC-based transceivers and has deployed PLC-based ONTs. Over the years the company has distributed thousands of PLC based components to vendors around the world, including many for metro and long-haul networks where high reliability is paramount. The application of PLC technology to ONTs in the access network was pioneered by Enablence. The company retains a unique competitive advantage by being the only FTTP systems provider with internal supply of advanced PLC components.
Both PLC-based and non-PLC based ONTs are consistent with the International Telecommunications Union's Gigabit Passive Optical Network (ITU G.984 GPON) standards and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (IEEE 802.3 GE-PON) standards, the two leading standards for passive optical access networks. While being 100% interoperable with competing industry optics, the Enablence PLC optics provides several key advantages, including the capability to co-exist with other ONTs and optical technologies on the same passive optical network.
Enablence's FTTx Networks Division and the Optical Components & Sub-systems Division have been working together to integrate PLC optics into the ONT-E1800i and ONT-G221 optical network terminals for GE-PON and GPON technologies, respectively.
About Enablence Technologies Inc.
Enablence Technologies Inc., (TSX VENTURE: ENA) is a global leader in optical communications headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, designs, manufactures and sells optical components, subsystems and systems to a global customer base.
Enablence's FTTx Networks Division is an industry leader in optical broadband access systems. With an expanding Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) product portfolio featuring a variety of architectural options, it enables services providers to evolve their access networks from traditional copper-based networks to advanced optical communications access networks that are based on IP and Ethernet standards, for triple play voice, video and data services.
The company's optical access platforms have been installed at over 420 communications service providers around the world in a variety of the Independent Operating Companies (IOC), Postal Telephone & Telegraph (PTT), Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC), Multiple Systems Operator (MSO), municipal, utility and real estate development companies to deliver next generation optical communications services.
The Enablence Optical Components and Subsystems division is a global leader in applying the Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) technology to integrate multiple components into a single optical chip to reduce footprint and costs. The designers of access, metro and long-haul next-generation networks turn to Enablence for innovative, smaller and faster components and subsystems. Products for access, metro and long-haul markets include transceivers, splitters, waveguides, optical channel monitors, multiplexers, ROADMs, switches, tunable dispersion compensators, and photodiodes.
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Contacts:
Enablence Technologies Inc.
Arvind Chhatbar
Chief Executive Officer
613-270-7859
