SOLiD Technologies Announces Development Of Advanced WDM-PON System

August 28, 2009 – Seongnam-Si, South Korea – SOLiD Technologies announced that it has succeeded in developing an advanced, state of the art WDM-PON system.

To date, most reasonable price-ranged WDM-PON systems use external seed light sources. These systems are limited in transmission distance and are also exposed to vulnerability upon field conditions and critical system failure in case of seed light failures. Although a tunable laser solution resolves most of these limitations and problems, it is not highly adopted due to its high cost.

The system developed has the capability of delivering 16 WDM channels of GbE over a single fiber core up to more than 40km. Unlike the conventional WDM-PONs like Injection-locking and RSOA where external seed light sources are used, this system uses the cost-effective tunable lasers with wavelength stabilization scheme.

Seung Hee Lee, CEO of SOLiD Technologies Inc., said, “The significance of this development is that this system enables service providers to meet the customers’ greater bandwidth demands at the CAPEX comparable to EPON and GPON as well as reduction in OPEX resulting from additional savings in the number of access fibers needed.”

SOLiD Technologies will be exhibiting the product at Broadband World Forum Europe 2009, September 7-9, 2009, in Paris, France.