Optoplex announced today the shipment of first production batch of flexible bandwidth interleaver, FlexSlicer™.

Being the first of its kind, FlexSlicer™ has been developed specifically to help telecommunication carriers to ease the migration from low to high data-rate (2.5 -> 10 Gb/s or 10 -> 40 Gb/s). With the help of FlexSlicer™, low and high data-rate signals can co-exist in the same infrastructure and utilize the same telecommunication equipment. The carriers can retain the current investment while introducing the high data-rate services with minimum incremental cost.

Based on Optoplex Corporation’s patented technologies, FlexSlicer™ has superior passband and dispersion characteristics that are particularly suitable for 40-Gb/s data rate. A major feature of the device is that customer has the freedom of specifying the ratio of the passband widths for the two interleaving ports. FlexSlicer™ has passed the reliability testing based on Telcordia GR-1221 requirements.

With the introduction of FlexSlicer™, Optoplex Corporation once again demonstrate its technical innovation in designing new components to solve today’s most challenging optical communication problems.

For more information, please write to info@optoplex.com or call (510) 490-9930.