“With the OCC-55 CWDM channel checker, our customers have, for the first time, a CWDM selective measurement tool that enables a broad range of field technicians,” said Enzo di Luigi, general manager, fibre optics communications test and measurement business segment, JDSU. “OCC-55 has the best price-to-performance ratio on the market and advanced ease-of-use features that provide workforce efficiencies for today’s heavily burdened fibre technicians.”
CWDM technology is said to enable network operators to cost-effectively increase bandwidth on existing fibre networks to meet demand for IP-based triple play services.
CWDM systems are mainly being deployed in metropolitan areas where network operator customer groups are densely concentrated and can be reached within a reasonable system link span without the need of optical amplifiers. Because of this, field technicians can no longer afford to carry a full-band OSA to every location in order to verify the presence and the power level of an individual CWDM channel. The compact and inexpensive OCC-55 meets the market requirement for a CWDM analyser and equips every technician with the ability to check for CWDM channels, the company said.
OCC-55 operates in the 1260 to 1620 nm range and deploys a USB interface (both USB host and client available with OCC-55) that, when used in combination with the free-of-charge OFS-355 software, provides customised reports that are downloaded from OCC-55 to a PC. OCC-55 can analyse all 18 CWDM wavelengths in terms of the individual power level and then display the measurement results either in a 'bar graph' or 'tabular' mode. |
