Telecom Lead America: Fujitsu and Motorola Mobility have tested an interoperable GPON-WDM (Gigabit Passive Optical Networking – Wavelength Division Multiplexing) solution for the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
The solution features Fujitsu’s FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platform (P-ONP) and Motorola’s Passive Optical LAN (POL) solution.
The two Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)-certified platforms demonstrated integration, providing the DoD and other federal agencies with a new optical network solution that meets the government’s standards of security, reliability, performance and efficiency.
Fujitsu’s FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP integrates key networking technologies including, centralized L2 switching, ROADM, and transmission up to 100G. The Fujitsu and Motorola platforms demonstrate data sharing with minimal latency or jitter effects.
Motorola’s Passive Optical LAN (POL) simplifies enterprise network deployment, operation and management.
Motorola’s POL solution delivers cost savings, with up to a 55 percent reduction in capital and up to a 75 percent reduction in overall operational costs, for combined Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) savings of up to 65 percent over traditional LAN architectures.
Jeana Cunningham, vice president of Federal Sales, Fujitsu Network Communications, said: “Over the years, we’ve worked to attain U.S. government certifications and have placed many Fujitsu technologies on the DoD’s Unified Capabilities Approved Products List. We will continue to work to meet the government’s need for ultra-reliable and secure bandwidth.”
Joe Cozzolino, senior vice president and general manager, of Network Infrastructure Solutions for Motorola, said: “We’re bringing the Department of Defense a solution that will greatly improve security and reliability as well as simplify network deployment, operation and management. In addition, our POL technology delivers impressive cost savings, freeing up budget for additional investments.”
The FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP supports Connection-Oriented Ethernet (COE), ROADM and SONET/SDH. By combining circuit and packet-based switching into a single platform, government organizations can transition from a legacy infrastructure to a converged core that transports TDM alongside new GPON traffic.
With the addition of Fujitsu’s 100G Transponder and 100G Muxponder cards, the FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP further expands network capacity, improves spectral efficiency and lowers the cost per bit of optical transport. With up to 88 channels, the FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP is capable of providing up to 8.8 Terabits of network capacity.
