KDDI has commercially deployed Calient Networks’ DiamondWave PXC photonic switch as the core optical switch element in the new R&D Testbed Network JGN II for the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Financial terms were not disclosed.
JGN II, or Japan Gigabit Network II, has been designed and deployed to provide high-speed IP and Ethernet services to NICT’s research centers as well as to universities and government research centers throughout Japan. JGN II is expected to accelerate research and development activities in the area of applications, ubiquitous networking, and so forth. Calient DiamondWave PXC switching systems were deployed to provide fully transparent optical switching and GMPLS-powered networking for bandwidth on demand to all served sites. http://www.calient.net
