ROADM Modules

TrueFlex Contentionless Twin 8x24 Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS)

TrueFlex Contentionless Twin 8x24 Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS)

The TrueFlex® Contentionless Twin 8x24 Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) provides cost and performance benefits for next generation colorless, directionless, contentionless (CDC) reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) networks, resulting from improved scalability of add/drop ports and removal of erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) arrays (which are required to overcome splitting losses in multicast switches). The TrueFlex Contentionless Twin 8x24 WSS eliminates the performance degradation from out-of-band noise accumulation by virtue of the wavelength filtering in the WSS.

Efficiently Supporting Aggressive Network Capacity Growth in Next-Generation ROADM Networks

Features

  • Insertion loss < 8 dB for any port combination
  • Cost-effective, high-density, high-port count CDC add/drop without the need for EDFA arrays
  • Wavelength filtering for out-of-band noise suppression

Applications

  • CDC ROADM networks
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