Enablence Technologies has won a major bid from China’s ZTE Corporation (ZTE), a telecommunications enterprise, and will now supply its Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC)-based Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexers (ROADM (News - Alert)) and its PLC-based Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) products.

 

Enablence is a global provider of optical communications, providing systems, subsystems and components for Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), metro and long haul markets. The company’s iROAD is a flexible and integrated solution designed for multi-channel ROADMs with power monitoring and automatic channel balancing at low cost, small size and low power dissipation, explained officials.

 

With iRoad, carriers can easily switch traffic and reconfigure networks to address the dynamic bandwidth needs of its customers. What makes Enablence’s ROADM solution unique is its ability to make this traffic switch automatically and remotely, which cuts down operating expenses for carriers.

 

ZTE (News - Alert) reportedly selected Enablence iROAD solutions impressed by its high performance and expects the product to help them quickly increase services to their customers and ultimately gain significant revenue generation.

 

According to Enablence officials, the Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) is widely deployed in optical networks for combining a number of wavelengths into a single optical fiber. Enablence offers their AWGs in colorless and polarization maintaining options, and claims they have the ability to combine as many as 80 wavelengths into a single fiber.

 

Arvind Chhatbar, CEO of Enablence, noted that their company has been a major supplier for Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for both the European and North American markets for several years. He finds the ZTE win to be very important for Enablence as this bid proves their strong customer focus and market position in the industry.

 

Enablence Technologies was recently in news when one of its customers, Comporium Communications was able to successfully connect over 6,300 residential and business customers with Enablence's FTTP equipment.

 

Based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Comporium is an American ILEC (Independent Local Exchange Carrier) and cable television operator with around 100,000 customers throughout its service area.