While Video services continue to represent the best opportunity for increased revenue, the distribution and transport of the bandwidth hungry video traffic present a serious challenge to service providers. As the intelligence of IPTV networks improve over time, the total cost of network ownership improves dramatically. This lowering of network cost is achieved though network equipment consolidation, where the IPTV traffic routing, QoS, storage and DWDM OTN transport capabilities are combined into a single Network Element and management system. Video servers continue integrating QoS and IP routing capabilities to replace costly and power hungry routers at the traffic routing sites. Likewise, video content storage is kept directly on the video server to eliminate the need for external video storage devices.
Menara Networks enables carriers and MSOs to eliminate DWDM transponders through a number of innovations at the IC integration, system architecture, and embedded software levels by packaging all the necessary high performance transport attributes such as ITU-T G.709 OTN processing, Forward Error Correction and embedded network management support, traditionally only found in DWDM transponder systems, into a suite of MSA compliant optical transceivers. These MSA-compliant OTN DWDM “systems-in-a-module” plug directly into multi-media routers and the integrated video server to instantly add intelligent DWDM transport capabilities.
Menara’s "systems-in-a-module" offer advanced features such as adaptive receiver threshold optimization, network alarms and performance monitoring indicators pre-processing for superior optical performance and simpler end-to-end network management and control. Menara’s transceivers 100% MSA compliance ensures rapid adoption and integration into transport systems and multi-service provisioning platforms.
Menara’s unique "systems-in-a-module" with integrated OTN successfully inter-operated with metro, regional and long haul leading vendor ROADM and DWDM platforms, achieving error-free transmission of over 1,200 km reach over SMF-28 fiber. Our transceivers provide:
