Xtera Communications, a start-up based in Allen, Texas, closed on $30 million of new financing for its Raman based DWDM system. The Xtera system designed to lower the cost of long-haul optical transmission. Xtera’s existing investors provided the majority of the financing.
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- In February 2002, Xtera Communications unveiled a long-haul DWDM platform capable of supporting up to 240 wavelengths at 10 Gbps. The Nu-Wave system uses Raman amplification over a 100 nm spectrum to transmit up to 1500 km without electrical regeneration. Xtera is targeting system capacity of 2.4 terabits in three 7-foot by 12-inch deep bays, and believes that its product will offer long distance carriers a less expensive alternative to current DWDM platforms. The company also says that any in-line amplifier (ILA) site can be converted, in-service, to an optical add drop multiplexer (OADM) with no distance trade-off.
- Xtera was founded by Dr. Mohammed N. Islam, a tenured professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.