According to Braskamp, a service provider can order equipment, have it delivered in two days' time, turn it on in 30 minutes, and turn on service in another 30 minutes. Also, the greater the bandwidth needs, the more competitive our technology is. The Wavelength Router is an optical layer device that supplies provisioning and restoration of wavelengths. The Monterey 20000 Wavelength Router can be used to provide a different restoration technique in the backbone of the network. This WDM-based network design provides significant savings in the core backbone.
Costs drop because there is less transport equipment required.
In a mesh optical network, backup bandwidth is shared across the network, reducing the number of wavelengths and, hence, the cost of the network. Service providers can build simple and efficient data networks using IP routers, ATM switches, Wavelength Router products, and DWDM equipment. Providers can use DWDM to provide more bandwidth, Wavelength Router solutions to enable the provisioning and restoration of that bandwidth, and data devices to aggregate packets and cells to present to the optical layer. Bandwidth service providers can deploy Wavelength Router solutions at their backbone sites to optimize backbone bandwidth utilization and restore links upon failure. For more information on Cisco's new optical transport products and technologies, visit the Optical Internetworking web page.