GigaMux 3300 Series

At-a-Glance

• • GigaMux3300 is Sorrento’s Active DWDM solution designed to operate at speeds up to 100Gb/s
  • GigaMux3300 supports many different protocols including Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC)
  • Encryption and FEC are available options
  • Available in 2U and 6U chassis options
  • Supports many different fibre network components including Transponders, Amplifiers and multiplexers

GigaMux 3300 provides access to individual DWDM channels within fibre connections.

GigaMux 3300 is an Active DWDM device – meaning that it takes care of the application of individual wavelengths or ‘colours’ to the incoming signal from client equipment such as Routers, Servers, Legacy equipment etc.

It also provides additional features such as Wavelength demarcation and performance monitoring, Sub-wavelength multiplexing (several channels within an individual wavelength and advanced optical networking features such as long distance connections using Optical Amplifiers and local channel add and drop Flexible OADM capabilities. It is also able to support Layer 1 encryption.

GigaMux 3300 comes in several chassis depending on application – 2U and 6U and even larger still if needed – and it can be configured in many different ways depending on the requirement.

As well as simple point to point connections GigaMux 3300 can also build complex networks such as rings and meshes on the same fibre using OADM technology that avoids the need for electronics at intermediate locations which improves space and power utilisation while improving performance parameters such as Latency.

The use of wavelength routing in this manner creates direct connection between non adjacent nodes as if they were individual fibre connections.

At Sorrento we use the term Virtual Fibre to describe this.

Each of the coloured lines on the diagram shows a wavelength connection across a ring network that otherwise has no electronic devices in it. Each wavelength has a capacity that could be a low as 100Mb/s or as high as 100Gb/s with any protocol low latency and with Encryption options.