Date: 15th December 2010
Title: Transmode extends its Native Packet Optical portfolio with 80G Ethernet Muxponder

Transmode, a leading supplier of optical networking solutions, today announced the extension of its Native Packet Optical portfolio to further address applications such as Ethernet aggregation, mobile backhaul, video distribution and business Ethernet services.

The new 8x 10G Layer 2 Ethernet Muxponder (EMXP II 80) is available as part of Transmode's TM-Series Release 16, which will be released this month. This addition extends the highly successful EMXP II family that was introduced in June 2010. Transmode's EMXP II family addresses Transport Ethernet applications within the Native Packet Optical architecture and provides competitive advantage to operators in areas such as low latency and SyncE support.

"Our Native Packet Optical architecture and the EMXP II family in particular, is proving to be very popular with customers and prospects, with roll outs in networks in Europe and North America for applications such as mobile backhaul and regional Ethernet services," said Sten Nordell, Chief Technology Officer at Transmode. "The new EMXP II 80 extends the capabilities for Layer 2 Ethernet to higher capacity networks and the unit is already running in customer labs ready for certification and rollout early in 2011."

Native Packet Optical is an architecture that is ideally suited to the edge of an optical network as it keeps the traffic payload as standard native Ethernet frames. This provides the operator with better visibility and manageability of Layer-2 traffic, better aggregation of traffic to "fill the pipes" prior to hand over to the core. Furthermore it lowers the cost of Packet Optical integration at the edge of the optical network. Within this architecture, Transport Ethernet solutions optimize Ethernet for aggregation and transport of Layer 2 Ethernet traffic.

Transport Ethernet provides Ethernet services with integrated WDM transport and is optimized for aggregation and transport without the broader range of Layer 2 functionality that is offered by a full Carrier Ethernet Switch. This application specific optimization allows Transmode's EMXP II family to offer additional benefits beyond lower cost, such as extremely low sub-2 microsecond latency with virtually zero jitter and superior support for SyncE services. This makes the family of units ideally suited to Ethernet applications where latency and jitter are important, such as services for financial institutions and video distribution and also 3G or LTE mobile backhaul where synchronization support is also extremely critical.

About Transmode
Transmode is a leading provider of optical networking solutions for transport of data, voice and video traffic, based on CWDM and DWDM technology (Coarse/Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing). 
 
Transmode's unique Intelligent WDM (iWDM™) approach has lead to widespread deployment of over 20000 systems in a customer base consisting of more than 300 fixed and mobile network operators, service providers, large enterprises and public institutions across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
 
Transmode's comprehensive product portfolio and strong global organization enable our customers to grow the capacity and to improve service level of their regional, metro and metro access networks, on a cost-efficient basis without compromising on functionality.

For additional information about Transmode, please visit www.transmode.com.

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