Tera-Pass develops advanced Optical Transport Network (OTN) and fine-grain OTN (fgOTN, OSUflex) processors and pluggable optical modules that enable Network Equipment (NE) vendors to build optimized, resilient, and cost-effective wireline and wireless access and metro systems.
Tera-Pass offers a unique combination of ASIC OTN processors (Apodis product family), IP Solution (Orion, Scorpion, Aries) OTN processors, and Pluggable Optical Modules (Virgo). Tera-Pass’ products enable network equipment vendors to select the most optimal solution for their needs. The various members of each product family are designed bearing in mind software and hardware commonality, simplifying the transition from one family member to another.
Apodis ASIC OTN processors support up to 16 client signals and map them to ODU0/1/2/flex containers. Apodis processors are equipped with a built-in ODU0/1/2/flex switching fabric. On their line side, Apodis support up to 4 line ports, that may be configured for either OTU2 or OTU1 signals. The OTU2 lines support Strong FEC.
Orion OTU2r IP Solution processors comply with the ITU-T Supplement 56 paragraph 8 specification for the efficient transport of CPRI signals over OTN. Orion processors support the transport of CPRI signals over OTU2r (11.8/12.6G) bearers. The IPL8001MX supports the multiplexing of CPRI-3/4/5 signals to an OTU2r bearer, while the IPL8101TX supports a transponder functionality from CPRI-7/8/9 signals to an OTU2r.
Scorpion OSUflex IP Solution processors support the transport of client-services (FE/GE, STM1/STM4, E1/T1) over OSU (Optical Service Units) and ODU containers. The line side of Scorpion are OTU1 signals.
Aries fgOTN IP Solution processors support the transport of client-services (FE/GE, STM1/STM4, E1) over fgODUflex containers and offer important value-added capabilities. The line side of Aries are OTU2 signals.
Virgo OTU2 Optical Modules support Transponder and Muxponder functionalities and are integrated along with optical capabilities for a range of wavelengths and reaches.
Virgo SFP+ is a 10GE to OTU2 Transponder. Virgo SFP+ can be installed as a replacement to standard SFP+ modules.
Virgo CFP2 Muxponder/Transponder: The Virgo CFP2 Muxponder/Transponder is an 8 client-ports OTU2 Muxponder/Transponder with integrated optical capabilities.
Virgo CFP2 4x OTU2 Transponders: The Virgo CFP2 4x OTU2 Transponders is a 4 client-signals to 4 OTU2 bearers transponder with integrated optical capabilities. Virgo 4x OTU2 Transponders & Optical Mux/Demux generates a WDM optical signal.
Along with its various product families, Tera-Pass also offers an extensive range of design-support tools and services, intended to simplify and ease the integration of Tera-Pass’ products with our customers’ software and hardware systems.
As the demand for consumer and business data services continues its relentless growth, operators need to adapt and improve their networks to offer more and better services. Broadband services like high definition video and other bandwidth-hungry applications have become commonplace around the world, and over the coming years are expected to continue to increase network traffic dramatically.
New network architectures are the next logical step for operators who wish to offer advanced quality services to premium customers. OTN (Optical Transport Network) technology, that is dominant today at the Metro and Core network layers, will propagate also to the Access Layer. OTN devices at the edge of the network will allow operators to offer high-quality lucrative services to their premium customers while achieving significant CAPEX and OPEX cost reductions.