WDM Solutions - MRV Communications - #3

MRV is the only vendor to provide a complete solution for media conversion, distance extension, redundant links, Wave-Division Multiplexing and many other applications with integrated fiber optic technology.

We accomplish this by maintaining control over the process from wafer to system, incorporating our own technology and best-of-breed 3rd party technology in our systems.

Digital Diagnostics: Provides real time monitoring of transmit and receive power; temperature and voltage, with alarm and warning thresholds for preemptive control.

Multiplexer: An optical device that combines channels of different wavelengths such that they all pass through a single optical fiber.

Demultiplexer: An optical device that separates combined (multiplexed) channels of different wavelengths such that they each emerge through a different fiber- the inverse of a multiplexer.

Add/Drop Multiplexer: A multiplexer/demultiplexer that adds or drops one or more specific wavelengths at a given point along a WDM link while allowing all other wavelengths to pass through unchanged.

Optical Amplifier: A device that amplifies an incoming multi-wavelength optical signal without needing to first convert it to electrical form.

Dispersion: The spreading out of light pulses as they travel in an optical fiber. May result in the degradation of the data signal to the point that the receiving end cannot decode it. Dispersion limits the distance between signal regenerators. MRV provides these as well as low dispersion DWDM interfaces.