Cox Communications deploys Sorrento networks' metro and regional DWDM equipment for new, nationwide optical network - Networks - Brief Article

Sorrento Networks announced that Cox Communications is deploying Sorrento's metro and regional optical networking equipment as part of an extensive program to raise its own nationwide high-speed optical network.

Sorrento is supplying GigaMux and EPC optical networking equipment as well as TeraManager, Sorrento's carrier class management combination of parts to form a whole for Cox's nationwide optical IP backbone network. Sorrento is in the next to the first year of a four-year optical networking equipment fill up agreement with Cox Communications. Sorrento has already engineered and installed several metro optical networks enabling Cox Communications to provide wholesale and managed services beneath this agreement.

As a platform designed specifically for metro and regional networking, the GigaMux a whole simplifies optical networking while providing the scalability and in-service expansion operators require. With GigaMux, they can effortlessly expand their network without disrupting existing services to fit their increasing demands. A GigaMux combination of parts to form a whole scales very efficiently, starting with as small in number as four wavelengths and increasing up to 64 wavelengths by fiber with data transmission make hastes of up to 10 Gbp by wavelength. Sorrento's EPC, sub-rate multiplexers allow several signals to be aggregated into a higher-rate signal for maximum wavelength efficiency. TeraManager, Sorrento's carrier class optical network uncompounded body management system, provides end-end optical network management solutions.

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