The PL-1000IL is designed to extend the power link budget of DWDM solutions in a cost effective manner. The PL-1000IL provides amplification for a range of optical solutions starting from 4 wavelengths to up to 40 wavelengths and incorporates several types of low-noise EDFAs Booster, Inline, Pre-Amplifier, Midstage and Raman.
Depending on the customer requirements, the PL-1000IL can operate in APC or AGC modes. The AGC operation mode enables seamless wavelengths add/drop functionality without interference to the other active channels. In addition, the EDFA gain is controlled, adjusted and monitored by the user. The APC operating mode allows the maintenance of constant output power.
The EDFAs are gain flattened and have low Optical Signal to Noise Ratio (OSNR), thus enabling cascading of several EDFAs to form amplified link over long distance. PL-1000IL is fully integrated with PacketLight’s WDM product family. In addition, PL-1000IL unit are fully managed, configured, and monitored via PacketLight’s user-friendly Web-based management tool, PacketLight’s EMS solution or any third party SNMP based management tool.
PL-1000IL is ideal of applications such as:
• Extending the optical link budget to meet distance and attenuation requirements of DWDM networks
• High throughput Metro Ethernet connectivity over large distances
• Upgrade the optical link budget to support 10G services
• Reducing number of regenerators and sites along fiber
• Overcome old fiber infrastructure high loss