COMMTECH: Service technology and widening the highway

KELOWNA – If you could widen your highway – your network – by a factor of nine without stringing new fibre, and instead just bringing in new electronics, you'd do it, right? Of course, and network operators have been deploying CWDM (coarse wavelength division multiplexing) for a few years now. However, said Lindsay Broadband VP engineering Chris Skarica in a seminar today at the Canadian Commtech Trade Show and Seminars in Kelowna, you can't just add the gear to the network and hope it will work. There are a number of conditions that need to be satisfied. The technology will...