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Publication: Light Reading
Date: 28th January 2003
Title: Transmode Comes to America

Walker & Associates, Inc. a leading Woman owned telecommunications equipment distributor and services provider, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Transmode Systems AB to market, resell, and support Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing (CWDM) optical systems throughout the US.

Transmode Systems AB manufactures products based on Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM), a technology for sending multiple channels over a single fiber. The technology is a further development from the more traditional DWDM technology (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and enables more flexible, robust and above all more cost effective networks.

"The growing popularity of CWDM is based on deployment costs in the metro markets and the evolving efficiencies with the technology," according to Hal Sveum, Vice President and General Manager for Walker & Associates, Inc. "Customers are telling Walker that the DWDM solutions they are evaluating for deployment are cost-prohibitive and they are looking for more cost-effective ways to achieve their bandwidth requirements. DWDM is the embedded technology, but if utilizing CWDM can reduce the cost per channel to one third without sacrificing performance then CWDM will continue to win over customers and take market share."

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