JDSU's Agile Optical Switch family provides the broadest portfolio of ROADM solutions designed to match the requirements of major market segments. They are the building blocks of Agile Optical Networks and provide the flexibility to remotely reconfigure any or all wavelengths, thereby reducing time-to-service, simplifying the network and streamlining planning and management. This results in significant Opex and Capex reductions and faster time to revenue. In addition, they enable the cost effective creation and deployment of more complex network architectures.
The Wavelength Selective Switch is an N-port module composed of a hermetically sealed optics block and control electronics. The optics block is based on the highly successful free space optics platform developed for the Wavelength Blockers, hence maintaining a common platform solution while evolving to the WSS.
The WSS is used to dynamically attenuate, block switch and route wavelengths independently. Any wavelength/wavelengths can be routed from any port/ports to any other port/ports in any order, resulting in a colorless solution, that is highly flexible and requires no pre-planning.
