Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Agere Systems | Subject: Chips for Sonet/SDH
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 19 October 2004
Sonet evolves resiliency, services and
integration
Emerging trends in "old reliable" Sonet equipment focus on resiliency, services, and integration, says Giovanni Cintorrino from Agere Systems Telecommunications Division.
Synchronous optical network (Sonet)/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) equipment is one of the "old reliable" technologies of the maturing telecommunications equipment industry Sonet is intended for use in North America and SDH is better suited for the types of networks outside North America
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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