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Access network operators can now offer various services and bandwidths from T1/E1, to 10/100/1000M Ethernet, and connect them to the Metro network using TDM or WDM, all within the same compact system.
Santa Clara, California, USA, March 12th, 2007 – Dowslake Microsystems, provider of smart network building blocks from Ethernet to WDM, today announced an innovative optical networking platform – CATS Converged Access & Transport System.
Networks are transitioning from traditional Sonet or SDH based network topology to IP. Operators often struggle to interface a large variety of user equipment usually based on TDM or Ethernet, while linking them to the main network.
CATS Converged Access & Transport System provides various user interfaces, for TDM or WDM, to metro networks regardless of the protocols or data rates.
Using 3U 19” rack chassis as the basic system, CATS accepts all TDM, Ethernet and WDM plug-in cards within Dowslake product portfolio, such as Carrier Ethernet demarcation devices, circuit emulation products, CWDM or DWDM line cards, and multiplexers. Each card can go into a small CPE (customer premises equipment) chassis as an option to be stand-alone at customers’ sites.
Managing a variety of functions and services has always been a challenge. CATS offers a comprehensive set of network management tools, including local craft interface, SNMP agent, and GUI (graphic user interface). In-band or out-of-band management options are available. The network management allows operators to configure services, selling bandwidths, monitor the utilization and supervise operations.
Dowslake will showcase CATS Converged Access & Transport System, together with its newest 10G Ethernet Transport Switch, at CeBITS, Hannover Hall 12, Booth C14 from March 15th to 21st, and at Optical Communications Conference, Anaheim, Booth 1505 from March 26th to 29th.
About Dowslake Microsystems
Dowslake Microsystems Corp., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with engineering and operations in Acton, Massachusetts; Shanghai, China; and partnering with Pandatel AG, Hannover, Germany, designs and manufactures smart network building blocks serving a world wide customer base including OEM partners that are world’s largest equipment vendors, as well as access and edge network operators. Dowslake products are typically small in size, and flexible in features for easy integration into 3rd party systems, or to be deployed next to legacy equipment by major vendors that are for routing, switching, or transmission purposes. Together we shape today’s networks, to better connect people tomorrow, around the world.
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